Spring/break 2021

INTERWOVEN

BOOTH #1050

Location:
625 Madison Avenue, New York, NY

Exhibiting Artists:
Steve Locke and Tammie Rubin

Exhibition Dates:
September 8 - 13, 2021

Rivalry Projects is thrilled to announce our participation in the SPRING/BREAK Art Show taking place September 8-13, 2021 in New York at 625 Madison Avenue. Rivalry will be exhibiting Interwoven featuring artwork by Steve Locke and Tammie Rubin.

As Black artists working in America, Locke and Rubin offer manifold understandings of Black culture and lived experience, and their practices, too, are joined through constituent material elements such as Jacquard weaving and ceramics. Both artists create artwork that unpacks collective histories around race and identity, as well as the effects of white supremacy, and bodily violence. Locke and Rubin each grapple with symbols of cultural violence within their artwork in an attempt to reclaim these sites to promote ideas of social justice.  

WORKS

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Steve Locke (b. Cleveland, OH, raised Detroit, MI) is a New York-based artist whose paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations live at the intersections of portraiture, identity, and modernism. From the seductive nature of his paintings to the familiar but unreliable record of his photographs, he directs our gaze to help us look critically and unflinchingly at our shared history. Locke recontextualizes images and marries the contemporary and the historical, showing that the sins of the American past are alive and well and beg to be addressed. Instead of solely memorializing victims or revisiting trauma, he steers the viewer to the source of the violence. He refuses to let us look away from our complicit role but stands beside us as we face it. Locke is a former professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, and currently teaches at the Pratt Institute. 

Locke has been the subject of several exhibitions, including Samsøn Projects, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Mendes Wood, and there is no one left to blame, curated by Helen Molesworth at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and that last time we touched the water at the Hudson Opera House in Hudson, NY. Locke was awarded the Pollock-Krasner award in 2015 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. He is represented by LaMontagne Gallery in Boston, MA. 

Tammie Rubin (b. Chicago, Il) received a BFA in Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MFA in Ceramics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin currently lives in Austin, Texas where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics & Sculpture at St. Edward’s University. Rubin has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, recent selections include Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, The South Dallas Cultural Center, and The Carver Museum. Rubin founded Black Mountain Project along with fellow Austin-based artists Adrian Aguilera and Betelhem Makonnen, and she is a member of ICOSA Collective, a non-profit cooperative gallery. Rubin recently completed a Facebook Artist in Residence project and has an upcoming solo exhibition at The East | West Galleries at Texas Woman’s University.