Kim Rugg

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Installation View: "Girl Talk" / Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh / 2012


Artist Biography

With surgical blades and a meticulous hand, Kim Rugg (b. 1963, Canada) dissects and reassembles newspapers, stamps, comic books, cereal boxes and postage stamps in order to render them conventionally illegible. The front page of the LA Times becomes neatly alphabetized jargon, debunking the illusion of its producers' authority as much as the message itself. Through her re-appropriation of medium and meaning, she effectively highlights the innately slanted nature of the distribution of information as well as its messengers. Rugg has also created hand-drawn works alongside wallpaper installations, both of which toy with authenticity and falsehood through subtle trompe l'oeil.

Rugg received her MFA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (London). Her work can be seen in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (D.C.) and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), and the Norton Museum (FL) among others. She has been included in exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne), and Nettie Horn Gallery (Manchester), and was the recipient of the Thames and Hudson Prize from the Royal College of Art Society in 2004. She lives and works in London (UK).

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Exhibitions


"OPEN"

"OPEN"

Jan 8 – Feb 12, 2011

Kim Rugg

Kim Rugg

Feb 13 – Mar 13, 2010

Kim Rugg

Kim Rugg

Oct 6 – Nov 10, 2007

ULTRASONIC INTERNATIONAL

ULTRASONIC INTERNATIONAL

Jul 8 – Aug 19, 2006


Selected Press

LA Canvas - Mark Moore Gallery: The Kids Are Alright

Urbanist - News Made Meaningless: Meticulous Art by Kim Rugg

Cool Hunting - Cool Hunting Video Presents: Kim Rugg

OC Art Blog - In Metadataphile, artists pirate and hijack technology for our own good

Los Angeles Times - Around the Galleries - Leah Ollman

M.E.N. - Have they got news for you?

Modern Painters - Reviews: Kim Rugg PPOW

Art in America - Suzanne Treister and Kim Rugg at P.P.O.W

Art World Magazine - New Work: Kim Rugg

Art Info - Armory Week: A Year Later, A Fair Better