Esther Ruiz: Uncharted Opens May 8 at The Aldrich and is on view to September 2, 2024
Uncharted is Esther Ruiz’s first solo museum presentation on the East Coast, and the eighth installment of Aldrich Projects, a quarterly series featuring one work or a focused body of work by a single artist on the Museum’s campus.
Debuting new sculptures from her Beacon series alongside Codex (2023), these enigmatic objects consider the relationships between the natural and the artificial, the familiar and the alien, and the temporal and transcendental. Predicated on both material and metaphysical investigations, the Beacons’ hand-carved wooden forms are outfitted with bands of neon and embedded with an assortment of gemstones, geodes, organic matter, and found objects, including abalone mollusk shells and ammonite fossils. For Uncharted, Ruiz has also created COMMU-1 Navigational Beacon, the first freestanding sculpture and the largest to date in the Beacon series. Standing at nearly six feet tall, COMMU-1 is a human-scaled capsule described by the artist as a “chamber for contemplation.” At its core, COMMU-1 conjures the spirit of exploration and meditation, sharing with the other Beacons the manifestation of Ruiz’s intuition—a collision of the earthly and the boundless.
Esther Ruiz: Uncharted is curated by Curatorial and Publications Manager Caitlin Monachino.
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