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Prints of David Rubello\u2019s paintings Color Moves #6 \nand Color Moves #107 are now available through the Shinola for Crate & Barrel Collection.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
David Rubello\u2019s romance with art began nearly a lifetime ago when his kindergarten teacher opened a drawer, revealing several jars of beautiful color. Awestruck, the young Detroiter\u2019s imagination was sparked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI said to myself \u2018that\u2019s what I want to do,\u2019\u201d Rubello, now 86 years old, recalls during a recent conversation. This passion to create visual masterpieces has led him far and wide — from automobile design studios in the Motor City to art schools in Europe \u2013 sculpting, teaching, sketching, and painting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, sitting in his kitchen in the rural confines of Ray Township, Mich., he\u2019s still the boy looking at that drawer full of color. \u201cThat\u2019s where I\u2019m still at. I\u2019m still at that place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is here, in a studio with prints hanging on every wall and neatly stored in a filing chest, where Rubello\u2019s vision for his art is best understood.  These masterpieces, he says, aren\u2019t meant to simply be looked at. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA friend of mine said, \u2018I like art that does something,\u2019\u201d Rubello explains, spinning a piece on the kitchen counter. Three stacked triangles twist, showcasing all the trademarks of his playful style: Color. Shape. Line. The incalculable element of imagination. \u201cWell, this does something!\u201d he says wryly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the piece spins, he gestures to its changing form. \u201cWhat a piece like this does is involve the viewer. And because it can do that, it renews itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Color Moves #107 and Yellow Twist by Detroit artist David Rubello.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
STROKES OF RENEWAL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rubello knows a little something about renewal. Born in Detroit in 1935, during an era known as the Motor City\u2019s heyday, this artist has been reclaiming physical objects and himself since shortly after he was introduced to his passion in kindergarten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his youth he drew and cartooned feverishly. His mother liked it because it kept him out of trouble. Give him a canvas and colors, and she knew exactly where he\u2019d be. His sketches, however, were anything but random.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For instance, he started to sketch out scenes from the Playbills his sister brought home. Back then, issues had drab cover photos in black and white. \u201cI had to invent my own colors,\u201d Rubello says, flipping through an archive that captures his love of mixing brilliant hues. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In one, two men in heated conversation are rendered with meticulous attention to detail and color. Another features a character actor, gesturing off the page and brimming with emotion — the flush in his cheeks mirrored by the matador-red sweater he wears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This burgeoning talent didn\u2019t go unnoticed. In his teens,  his homeroom teacher asked if he wanted to go to Cass Technical High School to study art. Cass Tech has long been considered one of Detroit\u2019s elite academy turning out singer Diana Ross, comedian Lily Tomlin, and famed automotive innovator John DeLorean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said yes and soon found himself in heaven. \u201cEveryone was an artist.\u201d Rubello continued to Detroit\u2019s Society of Arts and Crafts, later rechristened the College for Creative Studies, where he learned from some of the era\u2019s most influential mid-century artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Clockwise, from top: David Rubello displays early art from his youth in Detroit; Reviewing the early stages of a retrospective book at the kitchen table, surrounded by pieces new and old; The artist in his studio.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI found myself free\u2014liberated\u2014from the figure, to explore. It was a great period of discovery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Rubello, like many of the nation\u2019s elite creative minds, landed at General Motors, working in the Design Sculpture Studio under the vision of legendary Harley Earl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he hungered for a style that he could truly call his own, so he took a leave of absence, headed to Italy, and studied at Accademia Di Belle Arti Rome. In learning from masters of formal figure painting, he gravitated to abstraction. This is the style he\u2019s now known for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI found myself free\u2014liberated\u2014from the figure, to explore. It was a great period of discovery.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rubello\u2019s exploration didn\u2019t end in Italy. He earned two more degrees in Copenhagen and Ann Arbor; traveled the world; taught in Pennsylvania and Maryland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detroit, however, kept calling him back home. In 1972, New Detroit\u2019s \u201cLiving with Art\u201d initiative commissioned large-scale public art pieces meant to lift a city bruised by its recent history. Rubello made his mark, designing and overseeing the painting of Color Cubes on a historic high-rise on Washington Boulevard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For over forty years, Color Cubes was a fixture, as iconic as the Joe Louis Fist sculpture or The Spirit of Detroit statue. It was exactly the type of art that Rubello is most driven by\u2014participatory. Detroiters weren\u2019t just viewers. They were owners. It was lost, however, when Color Cubes was painted over in 2014 to make way for an advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Detroit artist David Rubello sits for a portrait at his home studio with paintings from his Color Moves series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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SHINOLA BRINGS DAVID RUBELLO TO YOUR WALLS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rubello\u2019s work isn\u2019t just meant for the walls of the home he shares with his wife, artist, and photographer Mary Keithan. And it\u2019s not confined to public spaces or museums. It is a key piece of the new Shinola for Crate & Barrel<\/a> Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the opportunity arose to curate art prints that honored and reflected the spirit of Detroit, Shinola\u2019s brand art director, Michelle Potter, says Rubello\u2019s work topped the list. To her, Rubello captures perfectly the cycle of loss and renewal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
 \u201cWe see a piece with reverence for the past and the way loss shapes a community,\u201d Potter notes. \u201cBut this work also frames something entirely fresh and new, with an eye to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prints of David Rubello\u2019s paintings Color Moves #6 and Color Moves #107 are now available through the Shinola for Crate & Barrel Collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cColor Moves\u201d is Rubello\u2019s latest series, an evolution of his previous \u201cColor Ribbons\u201d and an obvious heir to the early explorations of the \u201cColor Cubes\u201d mural. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original may have vanished, but it is restored for a whole new set of owners. This kindergartner\u2019s longing for color and renewal will live on in a new way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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David Rubello and his wife Mary Keithan, a fellow artist and photographer, at their home in Ray Township, Michigan.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Detroit artist David Rubello\u2019s romance with art began nearly a lifetime ago when his kindergarten teacher opened a drawer, revealing several jars of beautiful color. […]<\/p>\n
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