“‘Supermax’ had a viral effect, and, like everybody else, I was one of the victims of Sterling flu,” says PaceWildenstein’s Marc Glimcher. “This guy makes objects that are irresistible.”
Ruby happily acknowledges that, unlike his more conceptual role models, he is most motivated by the daily labor of making a variety of things in the studio. “I like that kind of schizophrenic, frenetic energy,” he says of his polymorphous creativity. “I could never sit here and make stalagmites for the rest of my life.”















