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This Saturday my friend @craigcostellonyc @krinknyc will be signing his new book, ON A MISSION, his photographs from San Francisco 1990’s ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️#kr #reminiscemih #twist #spie #margaretkilgallen @printedmatter_artbookfairs

Small drawings … :)

Wood fire at @andersonranchartscenter , where I’ve been able to spend time throwing some pots and trying to get better at functional ware

Yesterday marked the close of Manuel Neri's first posthumous solo exhibition, curated by his daughter, LA-based sculptor Ruby Neri @rubyroseneri at Salon 94 (there’s one more week to see it downtown at @andrewkrepsgallery ) — and today is his birthday! His life was full of such serendipities: he initially set out to be an engineer before a chance college encounter with ceramics reoriented his life toward sculpture. According to his principal model Mary Julia Klimenko, it was sculpture that brought him to painting. It was also his sculptural practice — he would revisit and refine works over the course of months, even years — that kept him rooted in the Bay Area, working from a studio in a spacious church and building a deeply committed community around him. He became a giant of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, working alongside Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo, and even directed Six Gallery, where Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of "Howl." A charmed life. Dearly missed — his work remains, as does everything he made possible. Happy birthday to the late, great Manuel Neri. 📍"Manuel Neri: Selected Works by Ruby Neri" — on view through April 18 at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 394 Broadway #ManuelNeri #RubyNeri #Salon94 #AndrewKrepsGallery

It’s a crisp, spring day in the city — and it’s the last day to see “Manuel Neri: Selected Works by Ruby Neri” and “Ruby Neri: It’s What’s in the Ether.” In these joint uptown/downtown exhibitions, Ruby steps into the roles of both artist and curator, showing her own sculpture and lending her personal history and critical discernment to the her father’s first posthumous solo exhibition. Drop in !🐎 Ruby Neri: It’s What’s In The Ether 📍Salon 94 (3 E 89th, NYC) Manuel Neri: Selected Works by Ruby Neri 📍Salon 94 (3 E 89th, NYC) 📍Andrew Kreps Gallery (394 Broadway, NYC) @rubyneri @andrewkrepsgallery #ManuelNeri #AndrewKrepsGallery #Salon94 #RubyNeri

Smoke— from cigarettes, matches, even the wisps of ghostly apparitions— figures heavily in Ruby Neri’s recent work. Lingering in the air, or perhaps the ether, it marks the passing of a fire; the change it brings could mean new beginnings, rebirth. And it brings to mind that great, old song by the Mills Brothers… “Where do they go? The smoke rings I blow each night Oh, what do they do those circles of blue and white? Why do they seem to picture a dream of love and Why do they fade that phantom parade of love Puff, puff, puff, puff your cares away Puff, puff, puff Night and day Blow, blow them into air silky little rings Blow, blow them everywhere, give your troubles wings Oh, little smoke rings I love Please take me above Take me with you” Pictured: Ruby Neri, “Let the Unknown Pass Over,” 2026 @rubyroseneri #RubyNeri #Salon94 #WhatsInTheEther

Tomorrow! Saturday March 28, hope you can join :) @theboxla

Galerie Magazine quotes Ruby Neri — “My father had a rich world, and at times would allow us, his kids, glimpses of it. His stories of being among the Beat poets, traveling in Mexico… his relationship with Joan Brown—how defiant they were of New York, how they created their own artistic voices, influenced by, yet entirely separate from the Ab/Ex scene. All of these stories sounded fantastical and wondrous to us—a life I came to naturally expect for myself as well.” ✍️ “Ruby Neri: It’s What’s In the Ether,” and “Manuel Neri: Selected works by Ruby Neri” featured in Galerie Magazine 🔗 Read @gtaubs full article in @galeriemagazine at the link in our bio. @andrewkrepsgallery @rubyroseneri Ruby Neri: What’s In The Ether 📍On view through April 11 at Salon 94 & Andrew Kreps Gallery Manuel Neri: Selected Works by Ruby Neri 📍On view through April 11 at Salon 94 & Andrew Kreps Gallery #GalerieMagazine #Salon94 #AndrewKrepsGallery

Now on view at Salon 94, two exhibitions unfold across the Upper East Side townhouse, creating a layered dialogue between past and present. It’s What’s in the Ether presents Ruby Neri’s sculptural world. Dreamlike figures, intertwined bodies, and a softer, more introspective energy that fills the space. Alongside it, Manuel Neri: Selected Works by Ruby Neri revisits the work of her father. Raw plaster, expressive forms, and a sense of intimacy that feels both personal and monumental. Together, the two shows create a conversation across generations. Memory, reinterpretation, and presence, all within the same space. 📍 3 East 89th Street, New York On view March 5 to April 11, 2026 Salon 94 exhibition NYC, Ruby Neri It’s What’s in the Ether, Manuel Neri selected works, Upper East Side gallery, NYC art exhibitions 2026 #salon94 #rubyneri #manuelneri #nycart #nycexhibitions

A galloping horse— under an overpass, on a construction site, careening across a stray wall— “Reminisce.” That was Ruby Neri’s tag, her wildstyle calling card, back in her days as a Bay Area graffiti artist. Her deftness with the spray can persists as she blazes line and color onto the surfaces of her sculptures with sprayed-on glazes in dazzling hues. Rather than plan ahead, Ruby’s forms and figures develop as she sculpts. She incises the clay, molding it with her hands to delineates figures which emerge as a dialogue with the medium. It’s street-art-spontenaitey. Ruby’s gestures, continuity of symbolism 🐎, her figures’ poses, the marks her fingers leave in the clay all seem to point to freedom. 📍Catch Ruby Neri’s “It’s What’s in the Ether” at Salon 94 (3 E 89th). 📆 On view through April 11. Pictured: Dazzling archival photos of Ruby Neri’s tags in the 90s Bay Area — Detail views of “Carried Away”, (2025) “Let The Unknown Pass Over,” (2026) and “Chasing One’s Tail,” (2025). @rubyneri #RubyNeri #SanFrancisco #Horses #BayArea #tags #graffiti #streetart #Salon94

Meanwhile in Glasgow @themoderninstitute a beautiful pairing of @t_vejvi and @ehkley 🌈🌈🍎🍎

A family affair. Manuel Neri, titan of the Bay Area Figurative Movement (50’s - 70s), sculpted the human figure — upright, kneeling, lying — from plaster and paint. Gouging, scraping, marking: forceful, discerning, and charged. “I love the body language that people have,” he said, “the way they move, the way they position themselves.” We meet him afresh in “Manuel Neri: Selected Works” — the sculptor’s first posthumous solo exhibition, curated by his daughter, artist Ruby Neri. Her lens is singularly intimate: through shared history, three decades of plasters, bronzes, and works on paper become a sublime story of the human form — a celebration of what gets passed down. Pictured: Manuel Neri pictured with his painted sculptures on the porch of his Benicia home and studio, 1982, M. Lee Fatherree — Manuel Neri’s 1989 sculpture, “M.J. Series I” 📍Opening 6-8 pm, Thursday, March 5 at Salon 94 (3 E 89th, NYC) 📍Opening 6-8pm Friday, March 6 at Andrew Kreps Gallery (394 Broadway, NYC) 📆 On view through April 11 at Salon 94 📆 On view through April 18 at Andrew Kreps Gallery @rubyneri @andrewkrepsgallery #ManuelNeri #AndrewKrepsGallery #Salon94 #RubyNeri