ruby bailey

AN INCONSISTENT TRIAD Opening May 23 Newburgh, New York Thank you again and again @visit__net for inviting me to exhibit and curate with you! @genevieve_goffman and @iso.muein are artists who inspire me hugelyyy! There’s a density and sincerity to their work. So many subtle layers of stories, mythology and secrets... And humming n shifting lines of connection between all the works in the show. Yum yum Art in a beautiful room. Join us for the opening upstate on May 23rd! There will be drinks, there will be revelling, and there may also be a trip to Dia Beacon earlier that day (when in Rome etc etc). All fun and beautiful and good.

Garden, 2024 Powder-coated steel frame, laser-cut drawings, chains + {spider, web} 118 x 50 x 50 cm In Winston’s courtyard - thank you. Safe and quiet and quiet and quiet. Photographed by @samsamsamesam Made during my residency at @niroxarts @villa_legodi_cfs for #Ethereality @everard_read_cape_town_ in Jan

One of my mostest favouritest projects I’ve gotten to work on: artwork, design and layout for Non-Playable Characters from LAN Party We luv ascii Vienna and Benoit are such sharp, thoughtful editors. I learned so much from their precision and care. Thank you. Getting to read and rerereread these texts while moving them around InDesign was so dreamy. Good job #writers ! Available at metalabel.com/non-playable-characters

This Thursday, May 14th at 7PM, Visit is pleased to host a conversation between Genevieve Goffman and Ruby Justice Thelot ahead of the opening of An Inconsistent Triad in newburgh NY on May 23rd. Hosted as part of Visit’s ongoing Bushwick pop-up program at 1196 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, the talk continues the gallery’s interest in creating spaces for sustained engagement with artists and their work before exhibitions formally open. @genevieve_goffman @being_on_line @ruby_l00bi curator of An Inconsistent Triad Photo: @chase_c_middleton Located at 1196 Myrtle ave, Brooklyn

An Inconsistent Triad Preview Conversation in Bushwick Convo 01: Thursday, May 14 — 7PM 1196 Myrtle Ave Ahead of An Inconsistent Triad, Visit begins a series of preview conversations in Bushwick, conversations that shape the exhibition before it opens in Newburgh, NY. The first brings Ruby Justice Thelot into dialogue with Genevieve Goffman. Curated by Ruby Bailey, the exhibition brings together Goffman, Bri Griffin, and Bailey. This is the first of three conversations leading into the opening. An Inconsistent Triad opens May 23 at Visit, Newburgh. @ruby_l00bi @being_on_line @genevieve_goffman @iso.muein 📸 credit: Second slide: @chase_c_middleton Third slide: @suziemaez

some magazine launches just have signings, @twist_mag x @barragan had a different approach catch them at @apoclondon this thursday, they’ll have something IN store for you

ETHEREALITY {the_no_place_limbo_emptyempty} at Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town. Here is the invisible non-boundary {::_create transition_ 𝟥𝟨𝟢° 𝘎𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘳::} between technology, identity, and speculative futures. Across sculpture, analogue interactive works, and painterly digital landscapes, the exhibition presents tools, environments, secrets and symbols that challenge conventional materiality. ////#hello #digital #hello #real #hello #real #reality #hello #ether #heaven #goodbye #body #goodbyemetalbody Resin-cast Acheulean tools embedded with machine fragments reimagine history through a posthuman lens, while reflective chrome sculptures incorporate airplane parts and digital glyphs to create phantom hyperlinked architectures. “Encrypted” ASCII letters abstract a nud3 selfie into a symbolic language, interrogating privacy and visibility in a hypermediated, hypertextual world. *YOUCANTSEEMEYOHCANTSEEME* // if I say n|_|d3 will I be shadowbanned?/// Install views from Ethereality – on view at @everard_read_cape_town_ forever now we’re pixelated. *cross dissolve + twinkling scrolling letters* {_rollcredits_ } Thank you @niroxfoundation for the incredible support during my residency @villa_legodi_cfs and @emmajvandermerwe for your eye and care and @dogeareditions for the ink the paper @echoholdings for coming all this way. Chyron meet L00bi meet grass. ai speak the silent sounds. #cyberneticlisteningcollective Mike Hall for the photography

#rubybailey @ruby_l00bi Featured: Panel 1: conveniently dehistoricized reality {Liquidation}, 15in x 30in Laser etched acrylic, m4 standoff screws Panel 2: parallel to the - bank - empty [water], 15in x 30in Laser etched acrylic, m4 standoff screws Panel 3: there is a bright faraway everything {quiet}, 15in x 30in Laser etched acrylic, m4 standoff screws Panel 4: [and here are the clouds], 15in x 30in Laser etched acrylic, m4 standoff screws DM flatline gallery or email [email protected] for inquiries Photos by @artdocchicago __________ __________ Ruby Bailey works across film, digital media, paint, sculpture, and installation. Her work draws from two source streams held in tension: contemporary screen life and the physical world. She collects internet-native iconography and screen-derived marks alongside shapes derived from nature, her drawings, photographs, and diary entries. Over time these sources have formed a personal visual language, built from recurring signs and symbols such as her digital avatar L00bi, airplanes, grass, water, and cursors. This language lets her stage disclosure with precision. Diary language becomes floating text. Photographs are redrawn into simplified shapes. ASCII translation, embedded visual codes, and font-based masking set up a push and pull between vulnerability and secrecy, where confession becomes a practical problem of access, legibility, and risk. Two ongoing worlds structure the practice. Loobtopia concentrates visibility through dense, high-saturation composition. Ethereality is a reduced-color “nothingland” of haze and constraint, where loneliness and longing settle into a muted sublime. Bailey is from South Africa and is based between South Africa and New York City. She has exhibited internationally, including in London, Berlin, Dubai, New York, and Hong Kong.

Work in the #studio this week for *shiny new Chicago gallery * @__________flatline opening in March Yeah yeah yeah vector frosted acrylic cursor node glyph princess goodbye thank u {!!!}

@being_on_line wrote about my body of work, *ETHEREALITY*, shown at @everard_read_cape_town_ last year. I was planning something special with the writing, but what’s more special than #instagram {!!} With infinite thanks, The Other Ruby.

EverywhereAndThenDissolve, 2025 *pure* white powder coated laser-cut steel with printed magnetic UV vinyl and magnetic chrome laser-cut pieces 73.5 x 28 cm thank you @being_on_line <3

Crude Encryption_metal body Ed. 1/3 + 1AP Aluminium with cut out of my shhhh nakedselfie shhhh 2024 On a wall :)