Ruby Neri’s father Manuel was the leading sculptor of the Bay Area Figuration movement, widely known for his expressionist polychrome works. This familial connection can be felt in her painterly ceramic sculptures, which have remarkable freshness - an instantly communicative quality. Neri’s work encompasses motifs that could be seen as decorative or sentimental (such as this butterfly), rendering them with confident assertiveness, as if daring the viewer to deny their intuitive power.