Supreme have teamed up with Sterling Ruby to release a benefit Box Logo Tee to support low-income families impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires.
The Supreme Los Angeles Fire Relief Box Logo Tee features artwork from Sterling Ruby, specifically SP184 (2011) from the artist’s Spray Paint series. Ruby’s works in this series aims to pull the viewer into an expansive field of color, evoking the urban environment of a graffiti-covered wall.
The tee incorporates this artwork into the box logo on the chest, while the back features the text “STERLING RUBY LOS ANGELES FIRE RELIEF 2025.”
100% of profits will provide emergency direct cash assistance for fire survivors throughout Los Angeles via GiveDirectly. Cash aid allows fire survivors to meet their own immediate needs – such as essentials, shelter, transportation or bills.
The Supreme Los Angeles Fire Relief Box Logo Tee is available from today Thursday, February 27th at 8am PST on the Supreme website (US only) and at the Supreme Los Angeles store.
About the artist
Sterling Ruby was born in 1972, holds American and Dutch citizenship, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Collections include the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Ruby’s sculpture DOUBLE CANDLE (2018) is installed permanently at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Exhibitions include DROPPA BLOCKA, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2013); STOVES, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2015); Belvedere, Vienna (2016); Ceramics, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2018, traveled to Museum of Arts and Design, New York); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2019–20, traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston); Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (2021); Sterling Ruby at Cycladic: Ceramics, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2021); Sterling Ruby in the Ullens Collection: Beyond Boundaries, Concrete, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai (2022); Hex, Palazzo Diedo, Venice (2022); and SPECTERS TOKYO, Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo (2023). In 2014 he participated in the Gwangju Biennale, Taipei Triennale, and Whitney Biennial.
