Reminisce (artist)

Infobox Artist
name = Reminisce

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imagesize = 225 px
caption = Self portrait, mural, Redstone Building, 1997.
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birthname = Ruby Rose Neri
birthdate = 1970 [http://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/artists/cv/39 Ruby Neri: CV] , "David Kordansky Gallery" (website), 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-28.]
location =
nationality = American
field = Graffiti, murals, sculpture, and painting
training = University of California, Los Angeles (MFA, 1998),
San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, 1994)
movement = Mission School
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Reminisce (aka REM, pseudonyms of Ruby Rose Neri) [http://people.tribe.net/amor/blog/6eca1dd4-ac79-4566-a4ed-824d2e7d195f "Reminisce Remembered"] by Amor Sans Blague, "Motility Blog", April 30, 2005.] is a sculptor, painter, and former street artist from San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, known for her evocative portrayal of horses.

Biography

Ruby Neri is the daughter of Bay Area Figurative sculptor Manuel Neri, and followed in his footsteps as an artist. In the early 1990s, while attending San Francisco Art Institute, she began prolifically painting distinct, monochromatic graffiti horses in public spaces in San Francisco. [ [http://shapingsf.ctyme.com/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0ssf--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----dtx--0-1l--1-en-50---20-home-ilwu--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=extlink&rl=1&href=http:%2f%2fart1$reminisce.html "Reminisce"] by D.S. Black, "Shaping San Francisco Digital Library". Retrieved 2007-09-01.] "Piece By Piece" (documentary film), by Nic Hill, 2006.] Her work was often well-received by the general public in San Francisco, even among people who did not normally like graffiti.

Meanwhile, she also had a parallel career as a gallery artist and muralist, receiving a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. [http://www.chinaartobjects.com/Artists.aspx?id=26 Ruby Neri] : Bio, "China Art Objects" (website), 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-18.] Her painting during this time is described as being influenced by Nicole Eisenmann, Raymond Pettibon, and Mike Kelley. [ [http://old.thing.net/ttreview/febrev.12.html "Low Cool"] (art review) by Glen Helfand, "Thing.net", February 27, 1996.] During this time, Neri contributed mural work to such sites as the Clarion Alley Mural Project and the Redstone Building. [ [http://www.meganwilson.com/related/clarion.php Clarion Alley Mural Project] by Megan Wilson, "MeganWilson.com", 2006.] [ [http://www.creativeworkfund.org/pages/bios/aaron_noble.html Redstone Labor Temple Mural Project] , by Aaron Noble, "Creative Work Fund" (website), June 10, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.] A founding member of what later came to be known as the Mission School, [http://www.sfstation.com/ten-by-twenty-a605 "Ten by Twenty"] (art show review) by SFS Staff, "SF Station" (website), November 16, 2004.] she was a close collaborator with other notable graffiti artists such as Twist and KR, as well as Mission School painter Alicia McCarthy. [ [http://www.stephart.com/alicia.html "Infinity Rainbow: Alicia McCarthy at Rare"] by Stephanie Lee Jackson, "StephArt.com", 2001.]

In the late 1990s, Neri stopped doing graffiti entirely ["Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents" by Nicholas Ganz and Nancy MacDonald, 2006. ISBN 0810957477] and moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where she devoted herself more fully to sculpture, creating figurative but abstract cubist sculptures of horses. [cite web | url = http://www.natsoulas.com/html/artists/rubyNeri/ruby_neri.html | title = Ruby Neri | publisher = John Natsoulas Center for the Arts | accessdate=2007-09-01] During this time, she attended UCLA, where she received her MFA in 1998.

References

Further reading

* Bluhm, Erik. 2005. "Ruby Neri". "ArtUS" #8.
* Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 1997. "Bay Area Now: A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art".

External links

* [http://3580.com/transit/transit_gallery.php?thumb=large&artist=reminisce "artist: reminisce"] , "Transit: a database of graffiti from San Francisco".
* [http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/graffiti/sfb/sanfran_4.html "Reminisce's horses in the streets of San Francisco"] , "Art Crimes" (website), 1995.
* [http://www.artleak.org/neri.html "Ruby Neri: New Sculpture] , Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, "Artleak.org", October 2002.