About
In isolation, my connection with the outside world has primarily been through the pieces I have created. I select subjects that inspired me - that evoked an emotion or tapped into one of the many feelings I had, dealing with the challenges of the COVID and racial injustice pandemics. Those subjects all lived within the frame of my television.
In the absence of human connection, these subjects were my interdependent relationships. And, from these subjects, I created compositions with a sketchbook, set of pencils, and an eraser that all reside on a TV tray.
I never know what the finished product will look like until I stop drawing. And when I stop, it’s because it feels complete and incomplete at the same time. It is not only what I draw but what I don’t draw, allowing the negative space to complement and oppose the graphite.
Gary Rubin was born in Brooklyn, NY and now lives in Kirkland, WA. He works primarily in graphite and draws every day without fail. He obtained a BA in Drawing and Sculpture from University of Oregon. He has shown in juried exhibitions in Springfield OR, Kirkland WA, Tacoma WA, Anchorage AK, Clifton Springs NY and Arnold MD.