Perspective Tour with Tammie Rubin
Exploring Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
Artist Tammie Rubin joins us for a Perspective Tour exploring the exhibition Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers.
Rubin’s sculptures are largely informed by her relationship to objects through familial and cultural narratives and her experiences as a Black American woman. As a sculptor and installation artist working primarily in ceramics, Rubin’s material and thematic explorations share common ground with Raven Halfmoon, whose large-scale ceramic figures pay homage to Indigenous women and the artist’s Caddo heritage.
Beginning with a presentation by Rubin of her own work in our Community Room, the tour will then venture into the galleries where Rubin will touch on specific works by Halfmoon.
Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin is currently based in Austin, TX. Rubin is a member of ICOSA Collective and serves as Associate Professor of Studio Art, Ceramics at Texas State University. Her most recent solo exhibition, I Am Woman, I Am Labor, I Am Home, was presented at Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY in 2024. Continuing the artist’s research into her own lineage, the exhibition explored the complex narrative around women’s labor and how these histories affect her experiences of labor as an artist.
Perspective Tours is a talk and tour series where guest artists and curators share information about their own work while lending insights into our exhibitions.
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About the Exhibition
Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers. Raven Halfmoon’s (b. 1991, Caddo Nation; lives and works in Norman, Oklahoma) touring solo exhibition will span both of The Contemporary Austin’s sites with an indoor exhibition at the Jones Center and an outdoor sculpture, Flagbearer, which will be installed at the museum’s Laguna Gloria location in mid-February.
About Tammie Rubin
Tammie Rubin. Photo Credit: Essentials-Creatives
Tammie Rubin is a ceramic sculptor and installation artist whose practice considers the intrinsic power of objects and coded symbols as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics. Her artwork weaves together familial, historical, and literary narratives of Black American citizenry, migration, autonomy, and faith. Rubin has received residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Pottery Northwest. She is the 2022 Tito's Prize winner and a 2024 USA Fellow in Craft.
Rubin exhibits widely; selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; AGBS Christian-Green Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin, Mulvane Art Museum, KS; George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN; The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX; Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX; Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY; Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX; and C24 Gallery, New York, NY. The artist is represented by Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX.
Rubin's artwork has received reviews in online and print publications such as Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Oxford American, Art in America, Glasstire, Austin Chronicle, Sightlines, fields, Conflict of Interest, Arts and Culture Texas, and Ceramics: Art & Perception. She is a member of ICOSA Collective, a non-profit cooperative gallery. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin lives in Austin, Texas; she is an Associate Professor of Studio Arts, Ceramics at Texas State University.