INCUBATION by Jennifer Rubell

Jennifer Rubell presents her 11th annual breakfast installation, Incubation, opening Wednesday, November 30 from 9 a.m. to noon and continuing every morning through Sunday, December 4.

Incubation is an exploration of the creative act, simultaneously addressing the creation of food, the creation of life, and the creation of art. The installation incorporates two essential halves of the creative act: an incubation gallery where yogurt is being made; and an observation gallery where the yogurt is anointed with honey and then consumed.

30 Americans
at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
October 1, 2011—February 12, 2012

30 Americans showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations.

Expanded 2nd Edition Catalog for 2011 is available - order it today

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
March 20th, 2011 – September 4th, 2011

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
October 1st, 2011 – February 12th, 2012

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk
March 16th, 2012 through July 15th, 2012

Photo Credit: Kwaku Alston

Inside Our Process | Rubell Family

We only show art we own. That is a founding principle of the Rubell Family Collection, a principle that gives us tremendous freedom and enormous constraints. When we set out to conceptualize a new exhibition, we know we will only get the depth and quality we seek if we already have a strong foundation of works by a core group of artists. Once the exhibition is determined, we then collect into it, buying works that we consider essential right up to the closing date for the catalogue, just one month before the opening of the show...

Artists in the exhibition

Educational tour in the Rubell Family Collection
Schools Museum Educator Linda Manguel
interacts with students

Past Exhibitions: Dec 1, 2010 - Aug 26, 2011
 

HOW SOON NOW

Kaari Upson, It's Never Enough, 2007   Catalog available - Order now

Artists in the exhibition: Pawel Althamer El Anatsui Kathryn Andrews John Baldessari Kerstin Brätsch Cecily Brown Paul Chan George Condo Heather Cook Thea Djordjadze Nathalie Djurberg Naomi Fisher

Dara Friedman Rachel Harrison Huan Yong Ping Alex Hubbard DAS INSTITUT Matthew Day Jackson Karen Kilimnik Klara Kristalova Sarah Lucas Tobias Madison Mark Manders Dianna Molzan

Elizabeth Peyton Amanda Ross-Ho Analia Saban Wilhelm Sasnal Mike + Doug Starn Ryan Trecartin Rosemarie Trockel Kaari Upson Marianne Vitale Jennifer West Sue Williams David Wojnarowicz

How Soon Now features over thirty of the worldʼs most compelling contemporary artists including Cecily Brown, Thea Djordjadze, Huan Yong Ping, Matthew Day Jackson, Analia Saban, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson and David Wojnarowicz. This exhibition, occupying 27 galleries, is comprised of paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos never before exhibited in the Foundation. The artworks in this show, all of which are owned by the Collection and most of which are recent acquisitions, form disparate bodies of work from a range of generations and include established and emerging artists.

 

TIME CAPSULE, AGE 13 TO 21:
THE CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION OF JASON RUBELL

Thomas Ruff, Porträt [J. Rubell], 1989 Catalog available - Order now

Artists in the exhibition: Joe Andoe John Armleder Richard Artschwager Bernd and Hilla Becher Nayland Blake Ross Bleckner Richmond Burton Lawrence Carroll Francesco Clemente George Condo Walter Dahn Wim Delvoye Jiri G. Dokoupil R.M. Fischer Eric Fischl Katharina Fritsch Robert Gober Rodney Alan Greenblat

Andreas Gursky Peter Halley Herbert Hamak Keith Haring Jenny Holzer Michael Jenkins Mike Kelley Jeff Koons Jannis Kounellis Sol LeWitt Christopher Lucas Brice Marden Marlene McCarty Matthew McCaslin David McDermott & Peter McGough Marilyn Minter Bruce Nauman

Cady Noland Sigmar Polke Richard Prince Gerhard Richter Thomas Ruff August Sander Thomas Schütte Cindy Sherman José Maria Sicilia Mike and Doug Starn Jessica Stockholder Thomas Struth Philip Taaffe Rosemarie Trockel Meyer Vaisman Lawrence Weiner Matthew Weinstein Christopher Wool

 Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell is an exhibition that Jason Rubell first curated for his college thesis at Duke University in 1991. It contains 95 artworks he acquired between 1983 and 1991 and features 53 artists from this period, such as George Condo, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Cady Noland, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. This exhibition traveled to ten university art museums between 1991 and 1994. Jason Rubellʼs experience presenting this exhibition to and for the public greatly informed the opening of the Rubell Family Collection in 1994 with his family. His collecting efforts since that time have been in collaboration with his parents Don and Mera Rubell. The exhibition is a time capsule illustrating Jason Rubellʼs early collecting endeavors and bears witness to numerous artistic movements of the 1980ʼs.

2010-2011 Exhibition Sponsor: Lanvin

As the world's oldest Parisian fashion house, Lanvin is delighted to be collaborating with the Rubell Family Collection in its support of young artists. Since his tenure, Artistic Director Alber Elbaz has used his keen artistic sensibility to preserve Jeanne Lanvin's understanding of art and fashion. Starting at ArtBasel and building over the course of the year, the conversation initiated between the Rubell Family Collection and Lanvin will bring to life a groundbreaking dialogue between contemporary art and fashion. 

 

December 2^nd, 2010
Exhibition opening for How Soon Now, Time Capsule
and installation by Jennifer Rubell, Just Right

Getty sponsored talks, Learning from LA, held at the Rubell Family Collection featuring Los Angeles artists from
How Soon Now and the upcoming Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.

From left to right: Getty Research Institute Consulting Curator Glenn Phillips, Artists John Baldessari and Analia Saban

From left to right: Hammer Museum Curator Ali Subotnik, Artists Eleanor Antin and Kaari Upson

Hernan Bas
A Brief Brush with a Thrush, 2009
Direct gravure etching
21 x 17 1/2 in.
Signed, numbered and dated
Editions numbered 1 through 30 are available from an edition of 60
Printer: Graphicstudio/USF Institute for Research in Art, Tampa
Initial price: $1,000
To order please phone us or visit our online store

Internationally renowned artist Hernan Bas has graciously donated thirty new etchings to be sold on behalf of the Contemporary Arts Foundation. All proceeds will benefit the foundation and its exhibitions. Clearly his finest edition to date, A Brief Brush with a Thrush, depicts a recurring motif of Bas’; a young boy in the throes of discovery.

Hernan Bas, born in 1978, lives and works in Miami. He has had solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2009), Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2007), The Moore Space, Miami (2004) and The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2002). Bas' work has also been exhibited in The Collectors, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Nordic and Danish Pavilions, Venice Biennale (2009), Busan Biennale, Korea (2008), Aspen Art Museum (2007), Schirn Kunsthalle (2005) and Whitney Biennial (2004). He is represented by numerous galleries, including Frederic Snitzer, Miami, Victoria Miro, London, and Lehmann Maupin, New York.