Tammie Rubin

June 2 - 8, 2024

Photo by Essentials Creative

Tammie Rubin is an artist who considers power objects, coded symbols, Black American migration and citizenry, rituals, and magical thinking. Rubin employs ceramic conical forms, raised maps, and murals to create spaces of physical, metaphysical, and spiritual escape. Rubin holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington in Seattle and a BFA in Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rubin has exhibited widely; selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX., the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY., Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN., The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX., and grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX., and Rivalry Projects Buffalo, NY. She is represented by C24 Gallery, New York, NY., and Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX.

Her artwork has received reviews in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Glasstire, Austin American-Statesman, Austin Chronicle, Sightlines, fields, Conflict of Interest, Ceramics: Art & Perception, and Ceramics Monthly. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics and sculpture at St. Edward's University.

Tammie Rubin, Always & Forever (forever, ever), 2022, pigmented porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 15.5 x 32 x 12 in.