Nancy Rubins in Conversation with Tyler Green
Join us for a conversation between 2021 Artist Award recipient Nancy Rubins and Tyler Green.
Join us on Zoom to celebrate the Artists' Legacy Foundation's 2021 Artist Award recipient, Nancy Rubins. After the conversation with Rubins and Green, we will raise a glass to celebrate the artist's contributions to visual culture.
About Nancy Rubins
Nancy Rubins is an American sculptor and installation artist, born in 1952 in Naples, Texas. In 1974, she received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In 1976, she received an MFA from the University of California, Davis.
Rubins’s work has been shown internationally. Her solo museum exhibitions include those hosted by Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 1994, The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1995, ARTPACE, San Antonio in 1997, Miami Art Museum in 1999, Fonds regional d’art contemporain de Bourgogne, France in 2005, Sculpture Center, Long Island, New York in 2006, Lincoln Center, New York in 2006, and Navy Pier, Chicago in 2013. In 1993, Rubins was invited to participate in the Venice Biennale. She was included in the Whitney Biennial in the same year. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles. Large scale, outdoor sculptures are on permanent display at institutions throughout the world, including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and Université Paris Diderot, Paris.
Over the years Rubins received numerous awards, including: Maryland Institute College of Art Alumni Award in 2000, Flintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award in 1997, Rockefeller Foundation Travel Award in 1993, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, and Craft Media in 1991, Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York State Council for the Arts in 1981 and National Endowment for the Arts in 1981, 1980 and 1977.
Rubins taught at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1982 to 2004 and currently resides in Topanga, California.
About Tyler Green
Tyler Green is an award-winning author, historian and critic. Since 2011 he has produced and hosted The Modern Art Notes Podcast, the foremost American audio program featuring artists, curators and historians. Green’s pioneering website Modern Art Notes, which was published between 2001 and 2014, featured original reporting, art criticism, and analysis of non-profit art institutions. Green has contributed op-eds to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal. His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
Green’s first book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, won the 2019 California Book Awards gold medal for contribution to publishing. His forthcoming book, Emerson’s Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea will be released in October 2021.
About the Artist Award
The Artist Award is a $25,000 unrestricted prize given annually to an artist who demonstrates outstanding achievement in painting and/or sculpture. Each year, ten artists are nominated by a selected group of anonymous art professionals and reviewed by a three-member jury of peers. The 2021 jurors were Mary Ceruti, Julia Couzens, and Craig Nagasawa.
Join us for a conversation between 2021 Artist Award recipient Nancy Rubins and Tyler Green.
Join us on Zoom to celebrate the Artists' Legacy Foundation's 2021 Artist Award recipient, Nancy Rubins. After the conversation with Rubins and Green, we will raise a glass to celebrate the artist's contributions to visual culture.
About Nancy Rubins
Nancy Rubins is an American sculptor and installation artist, born in 1952 in Naples, Texas. In 1974, she received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In 1976, she received an MFA from the University of California, Davis.
Rubins’s work has been shown internationally. Her solo museum exhibitions include those hosted by Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 1994, The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1995, ARTPACE, San Antonio in 1997, Miami Art Museum in 1999, Fonds regional d’art contemporain de Bourgogne, France in 2005, Sculpture Center, Long Island, New York in 2006, Lincoln Center, New York in 2006, and Navy Pier, Chicago in 2013. In 1993, Rubins was invited to participate in the Venice Biennale. She was included in the Whitney Biennial in the same year. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles. Large scale, outdoor sculptures are on permanent display at institutions throughout the world, including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and Université Paris Diderot, Paris.
Over the years Rubins received numerous awards, including: Maryland Institute College of Art Alumni Award in 2000, Flintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award in 1997, Rockefeller Foundation Travel Award in 1993, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, and Craft Media in 1991, Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York State Council for the Arts in 1981 and National Endowment for the Arts in 1981, 1980 and 1977.
Rubins taught at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1982 to 2004 and currently resides in Topanga, California.
About Tyler Green
Tyler Green is an award-winning author, historian and critic. Since 2011 he has produced and hosted The Modern Art Notes Podcast, the foremost American audio program featuring artists, curators and historians. Green’s pioneering website Modern Art Notes, which was published between 2001 and 2014, featured original reporting, art criticism, and analysis of non-profit art institutions. Green has contributed op-eds to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal. His commentary has also aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
Green’s first book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, won the 2019 California Book Awards gold medal for contribution to publishing. His forthcoming book, Emerson’s Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea will be released in October 2021.
About the Artist Award
The Artist Award is a $25,000 unrestricted prize given annually to an artist who demonstrates outstanding achievement in painting and/or sculpture. Each year, ten artists are nominated by a selected group of anonymous art professionals and reviewed by a three-member jury of peers. The 2021 jurors were Mary Ceruti, Julia Couzens, and Craig Nagasawa.