Putting Up Our DeRubeis Artwork

Posted on by Julia

March 18, 2024

On Sunday (March 16), I took a garden rake and started raking gravel back into the driveway, trying to fill up the washed out section on the hill.

On the Hill Looking Down

I finished that and went to the bottom of the driveway.

Driveway Entrance with Holes

As I was raking gravel, Bruce came out with a couple of shovels. While we were moving gravel, our next door neighbor came over to talk. He offered to help to level the driveway once we got some more gravel. Our neighbor’s dad and brother both have a tractor. He even texted us a friend’s contact information who does gavel.

We filled in the worst of the holes so hopefully the driveway isn’t too bumpy.

Bruce contacted the gavel guy, who promised to take a look on Monday. If he did, he hasn’t gotten back with us yet.

On Sunday, Bruce decided it was time to start hanging our DeRubeis artwork. (Yay!) The wine glasses are now hanging in the dining room, on either side of side of the sliding glass doors. DeRubeis calls the wine glasses art “Pours.”

Red Pour
White Pour

At some point, I hope to move the microwave into the kitchen.

We put “Nebula” up at the end of the hallway.

Nebula

“Nebula” is glorious in proper light. I wasn’t able to get a good picture of the brilliant colors without the reflective surface shining. It is my second favorite piece.

The next day (Monday, March 17) we put up this artwork, “Autumn Wind.” It is my favorite piece. It was hard to get everything lined up and we didn’t get the bottom middle panel hung correctly on the left side. We’ll adjust it later.

From Over to the Right
From the Left Side

You can see it looks different from different angles with different angles of light on it. No wonder DeRubeis is known as “the Father of Conceptual Movement.”

The middle top panel is the one that got scratched.

I filled out the Contact Me form on DeRubeis’s website tonight asking if the panel could be repaired. Fingers crossed it can be repaired!

We have two more pieces of four to hang up. One goes in the bedroom and the other goes into dining room.

10 thoughts on “Putting Up Our DeRubeis Artwork”

    1. They are on aircraft aluminum. The pieces are grounded to make lines that reflect light underneath the chemicals and paints he is using. He also uses fire to create some of his effects. With the light on his work, it reflects in different ways, making it seem to glow. Without light, his works are dark and dim. With light, they are glowing, refractive colorful works of art.

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      2. Yes, he was custom painting Harley Davidson motorcycles to help pay for art classes. He was grinding off old an old paint job, when he noticed how the light was reflecting off the metal, how it changed based on the grinding patterns and the depth of the grinding. This was his artistic breakthrough to try something very different. The paints he uses are translucent so light reaches the ground patterns in the metal. I wish you could see one of his pieces. While they are beautiful in pictures, in person they are not static and have movement in them due to the way the light reflects and is refracted.

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