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Upcoming: Mori Art Museum , Tokyo: MAM Project 035: Brie Ruais 2026.10.31 [Sat] - 2027.3.28 [Sun]
🪱working in the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Back to Work! If you need me I'll be at my desk.

Brie Ruias in a corporate collection.

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Join us this Saturday 9/19 at 2pm at The Armory in Pasadena for a curatorial walkthrough of the exhibition, all the ways to hold tender this land. Curated by @elleinvd 💜

IG flier design by Cristal Trujillo (@cr1stalball)

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Piece by piece, this one came to life. 🌾✨

Canyon Ranch Austin commissioned artist Brie Ruais to create a site-specific work, and the result is stunning: a 14-foot ceramic installation called “Ascending from Earth to Cosmos.”

The 130-lb sculpture still carries the artist’s own handprints, footprints, and toe marks pressed into the clay — literally shaped by her body. Surrounding it are “satellite” stones pulled from the property itself before construction even began, so a piece of the land is built right into the art.

The circular forms do double duty — read them as fields, lakes, and craters, or as orbits and the night sky. And as the Texas light shifts from afternoon to sunset, the piece seems to shift with it.

Art that grows out of the land it sits on. 🤍

#CanyonRanchAustin #ArtInstallation #BrieRuais #AustinArt
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🐥 Opening tomorrow 🐥
Love Notes
1189 Parkway Dr. Santa Fe
September 12th 4-7pm
A group exhibition and fundraiser for the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

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Tomorrow! Love Notes Exhibition & Fundraiser for @tgrcnm
Here’s how it works:
🌸 4-7pm join us
🌸 purchase an artwork by taking its tag off the wall - $100 (pink tag), $250 (gold), $500 (green)
🌸take that artwork home

Love Notes
An Exhibition & Fundraiser for TGRCNM
Sept 12, Sat, 4-7pm
On-view via windows: Sept 7-12
In-person preview: Thurs, Sept 10, 5-7pm & Fri, Sept 11, 1-4pm
1189 Parkway Dr #F3, Santa Fe

Thank you to folx that are already donating in absentia, wow!

Love Notes includes 30 artists who have donated work to support the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. TGRCNM is a nonprofit that offers resources and aid to trans and nonbinary people across the state, including housing assistance and crisis support.

Participating artists include: Marie Alarcon @marie.d.alarcon , Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo @bluekaza , Kaitlin Bryson @mouthof.aflower , Sheri Crider @shericrider , Torreya Cummings @torreya.c , Amanda Curreri @amanducarreri , Welly Fletcher @wellyfletcher , Apolo Gomez @apologomez , Sierra Hardy @iggys_knife , Inga Hendrickson @ingahendrickson , Szu-Han Ho @szhnho , Nick Larsen @nick.larsen , Ace Lehner @ace_lehner_projects , Jessamyn Lovell @filmnotdead , c marquez @cmarquez.x , Emily Margarit Mason @emilymargaritmason , Hilary Nelson @hilinelson , Erin Jane Nelson/Jason Benson @erinjanenelson , Chris Oatey @chrisoatey , Jami Porter Lara @jamiporterlara , Michael Rahn @michaelrahnstudio , math rose @math___rose , Brie Ruais @brie_ruais , Erik Scollon @erikscollon , Jenn Shapland, Brad Trone @bradtrone , Chris Vargas @chrisevargas , Chelsea Weathers, Jared Weiss @jared_weiss_now , and Stephanie Woods @stephaniej.woods .

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Piece by piece, a work of art comes to life.

Created as a site-specific commission for Canyon Ranch Austin, artist Brie Ruais’ “Ascending from Earth to Cosmos” is a 14-foot-wide installation that connects the landscape to the sky.

The 130-pound ceramic sculpture bears the physical marks of its making, and the grooves in the clay are formed by Ruais’ hands, fingers, feet, and toes. Surrounding it are “satellite” rocks, including stones gathered on the property before construction began, embedding a piece of the land itself into the work.

Its circular forms evoke both earth and sky: agricultural fields, lakes and craters alongside planetary orbits and the vastness of the night sky. Even the colors seem to shift as the Texas light moves from day to sunset.

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Happy birthday to Night Gallery artist, Brie Ruais! 🎁

Ruais transforms sculpture into autobiography through her remarkable stoneware works, which emerge from a collaboration between material and the artist’s body. This fall, she will open a solo exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, marking her first presentation in Japan. Ruais will also be included in “Earth’s Winding Sheet,” a group exhibition at the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art in Reno, NV.

Cheers to you, Brie! 🌸

Brie Ruais, “Centering at White Sands, 130lbs,” 2026, stoneware, glaze, hardware, 72½” x 71¼” x 2 ½“.
🤍🤍🤍
#nightgallery @brie_ruais #brieruais

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Each work in this show contains a bit of mystery and a bit of beauty. Earth's Winding-Sheet opens at @thelilleymuseum on August 27. I can't wait for you to see it.

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so many words, but mostly gratitude to have had creative exchanges that center our bodies relationship with land, oppressive systems that disrupt mutuality, and the spirit of all living beings. Thank you Francesca, Anais, Maddy, and Brie for shaping these ideas 🫂

all the ways to hold tender this land on view at @armoryarts through September 19, 2026 ✨

Installation view of all the ways to hold tender this land for Armory Center for the Arts, 2026. Courtesy of Armory Center for the Arts. Photo: Jackson Brathwaite (@jxb_photo_ )

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Aligned with one of my favorite aspects of art: texture and materiality, the summer exhibition at @albertzbenda titled “Surfaces”, features eleven artists working across painting and sculpture: Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Darcy Brenna, Joana Choumali, Jim Gaylord, Naresh Kumar, Emil Lukas, Sofía Muljat, Brie Ruais, Kevin Umaña, and Amanda Valdez.

“Each artist treats the surface not as a neutral support, but as the primary site of meaning: where process is made legible and the act of making becomes inseparable from the thing made. “
#artmuserecommends #summerartshow #chelseagalleries #sculpture #contemporaryart

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Just after my solo show at Kristen Lorello @kristenlorello_gallery opened this spring I threw myself into a 2 1/2 month long bedroom renovation. I’ve owned my schoolhouse for over 10 years but never had a proper closet. It was always on my bucket list of things to renovate. After making design plans with the help of Matt @mucadeluca we were able to successfully renovate this room together. I taught myself how to frame out a room for the very first time and we hung and mudded/taped drywall together. It very well could have been the beginning of many fights, but it was a very positive and trust building experience for me and I hope for him too.

Over the last decade, I’ve taught myself many manual skills which I never would have developed while living in a city environment. Living in this rural part of Pennsylvania has encouraged me to become more self-sufficient and self reliant. I am proud of myself for collecting all these skills: art, design and build.

I’m also very happy to have many pieces from artists I have known over the years or through the artist residency I started at Bischoff Inn @bischoffinn It’s exciting to see these pieces on a daily basis.

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ART of GATHERING
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Design as an act of gathering. Sculptural forms, textures, and natural materials come together in this serene space designed by @NicholasVincent_. Featuring a California Driftwood Basket by artist @DaxSavage.
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Wall art @brie_ruais
Interiors @nicholasvincent_
Architecture @avalonarchitecturalinc
Builder @merlincustomhomebuilders
Photography @douglasfriedman
Lighting tech @_kitsinclair_
Stylist @jennyoconnorstudio

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