artist
Rita McBride
birth
Des Moines, United States, 1960
last update
23-04-2025
Rita McBride (Des Moines, United States, 1960) studied at Bard Collage and the California Institute of the Arts. She lives between New York, Rome and Düsseldorf, where she teaches at the Kunstakademie. McBride's work ranges from architectural sculptures to off-beat publishing projects, and her work is influenced by industrial design, modernist sculpture and minimalist sculpture. Since the mid-eighties, McBride's work has focused on inconspicuous and seemingly unimportant elements in the contemporary urban landscape which she takes out of context by playing with their scale, their materials and their connections with their surroundings. She has reinterpreted parking lot structures, grandstands, conduits, HVAC units, water towers and awnings and given them a metaphoric character. McBride uses materials ranging from rattan to Murano glass, Carrara marble, bronze and canvas, in an effort to illustrate the contradictions between mass production and craftsmanship, between high and low culture. Some of her pieces are large-scale works that are critical of the social uses of public space, and she often accompanies her sculptural architectural works with performances. McBride also works with publications and actively participates in the production of her exhibition catalogues so that they go far beyond simply illustrating her works and take on an artistic life of their own.

Her work can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Public Library, Queens Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Witte de With in Rotterdam and MACBA, among others.
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[5276_001_rgb / Imatge] Parking Ramps (South)
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documents

29 results
Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress [Publicació]
document
18-10-2019 - 8-3-2020
A.HIS.06152
Particulates / initiated by Rita McBride ; edited by Nalo Hopkinson
document
2018
A13278
Conversa entre Rita McBride i Bartomeu Marí [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
document
18-5-2012
A.HIS.00365
Arena : published on the occasion of the exhibition Rita McBride Arena : National Chain at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam / catalogue concept Rita McBride ; editor Barbera van Kooij ... [et al.] ; graphic design Norbert Bos
document
1997
A11327
Arena : published on the occasion of the exhibition Rita McBride Arena : National Chain at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam / catalogue concept Rita McBride ; editor Barbera van Kooij ... [et al.] ; graphic design Norbert Bos
document
1997
A11326
Arena : published on the occasion of the exhibition Rita McBride Arena : National Chain at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam / catalogue concept Rita McBride ; editor Barbera van Kooij ... [et al.] ; graphic design Norbert Bos
document
1997
A11325
[Rita McBride, caught looking '91–'94, little part '91, big part '92, the fat man '92]
document
[1998]
A10807
Naked came the **** / Gina Aschcraft
document
2002
A10945
En conversa amb Rita McBride -- El principi d’incertesa [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
document
15-5-2009
A.HIS.00170
Rita McBride. Oferta pública / Public Tender [Reportatge fotogràfic exposició]
document
19-5-2012 - 24-9-2012
A.HIS.00087
Rita McBride. Oferta pública / Public tender [Enregistrament audiovisual exposició]
document
19-5-2012 - 24-9-2012
A.HIS.03211
Futureways
document
2003
A11624
Futureways
document
2003
A08254
Rita McBride, Koenraad Dedobbeleer : Tight: repeating boredom, Hall, Privaat
document
2009
A13120
Rita McBride / text by Michelle Kelly
document
1997
A07854
Futureways
document
2003
A08234
Naked came the **** / Gina Aschcraft
document
2002
A06399
Futureways
document
2003
A08233
Futureways / edited by Rita McBride & Glen Rubsamen
document
2004
A06390
Heartways : the exploits of Genny O / edited by Rita McBride and Erin Cosgrove
document
2004
A06385
Crimeways / edited by Rita McBride and Matthew Licht
document
2005
A06393
Heartways : the exploits of Genny O / edited by Rita McBride and Erin Cosgrove
document
2004
A06395
Myways / edited by Rita McBride and David Gray
document
2006
A06388
Naked came the **** / Gina Aschcraft
document
2002
A03669
Nackt kamder Fremde / Gina Aschcraft
document
2002
A06401
Crimeways / edited by Rita McBride and Matthew Licht
document
2005
A03667
Futureways / edited by Rita McBride & Glen Rubsamen
document
2004
A03666
Rita McBride, Koenraad Dedobbeleer : Tight, repeating boredom, Hall, Privaat
document
2009
A05745
Myways / edited by Rita McBride and David Gray
document
2006
A03668