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Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present New Weavings, a project space exhibition by Ruby Sky Stiler.

Employing books as both reference and material, Stiler has long used existing texts and pictures to weave together a spectrum of disparate sources. For these new book page weavings, Stiler first excises pages from various art & design, history, or “how-to” volumes that line her studio, among them Giovani Becatti’s The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome (1967); Bargello: A Golden Hands Pattern Book (1973); and Carolyn Hall’s The Thirties in Vogue (1985).

After applying paint on or …