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Ruben Bryan Castillo



Biography/CV
Instagram

Studio Work
Greatest Hits: Vol. 1 & 2 (2022)

One Week in Spring (2021)
One Week in Spring
One Week Before Spring
Having a Flower With You
Prints, Drawings, Sculptures (2018-2020)

Fluff (2018)
For One, In A Shared Room
(2017)
Our Pillows
Pillow Talk
Drawing Of Our Closet (Love Notes)
Can Dishwashing Be Queer?
Things I Want From IKEA
(2014-2018)
Make Room For Comfortable
Pink Couch Fantasy
Shopping List 
Domestic Views
(2012-2016)
Drawings
Prints
Sculpture
Pictures In Our Home
Body Vernacular (2012)

©Ruben Bryan Castillo 2023
Ruben Castillo

Creative Portfolio, 2023


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Greatest Hits: Vol. 1 & 2, 2022, Phototex vinyl with etchings on paper, dimensions variable In the Flowers, 2021, lithograph with etchings on paper, 16" x 22" Our Pillows (at 2:33 PM), 2017, Etching with soft ground, aquatint, and drypoint on paper, 19" x 24" (plate); 26" x 32" (sheet) (photo by Brian Hawkins) Through & Through, 2021, lithograph with etchings on paper, 16" x 22" Installation view, 2017, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (photo by Brian Hawkins) Untitled (from the series Pillow Talk), 2017, Soft ground etching on paper, 5" x 7" (plate); 11" x 15" (sheet) (photo by Brian Hawkins) Drawing of Our Closet (Love Notes), 2017, two wooden bi-fold closet doors, wall spray texture, latex paint, fabric, wood, metal brackets, IKEA wooden hangers, enamel, graphite powder, 1 gouache on paper, 2 graphite drawings on paper, 1 silverpoint on cut paper, approx. dimensions 96" x 84" (photo by Brian Hawkins) Detail of Drawing of Our Closet (Love Notes), 2017, two wooden bi-fold closet doors, wall spray texture, latex paint, fabric, wood, metal brackets, IKEA wooden hangers, enamel, graphite powder (photo by Brian Hawkins) Having A Flower With You, 2021, screenprint on light blue hanky, 22” x 22” Stills from Fluff, 2018, HD video with sound, 4 minutes, 16 seconds Flow With It, 2021, lithograph with etchings and photopolymer gravure on paper, 16" x 22" Installation view of of Can Dishwashing Be Queer?, 2017, HD video with sound, 25 minutes Stills from of Can Dishwashing Be Queer?, 2017, HD video with sound, 25 minutes Having A Cloud With You, 2021, etchings on paper, 16" x 22" The Middle (Your Cloud, My Cloud), 2021, lithograph with etchings on paper, 16" x 22" It's the "Having With You," For Me, 2021, lithograph with etchings on paper, 16" x 22" Our Pillows (at 10:34 AM), 2017, Etching with soft ground, aquatint, and drypoint on paper, 15" x 24" (plate); 22" x 32" (sheet) (photo by Brian Hawkins) Greatest Hits: Vol. 1 & 2, 2022, Phototex vinyl with color etchings on paper, dimensions variable Our Pillows (Tuesday, at 7:37 AM), 2019, etching with soft ground, aquatint, and engraving on paper, 12" x 15" (plate); 19" x 23" (sheet) Drawing of Our Pillows, 2019, your pillowcase, my pillowcase, latex paint, graphite, skin cells