Big and Bright: New Work from Texas
Cutrator: Jessica McCambly
Southwestern Art College Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
I am proud to be exhibiting with these great Texas artists in California!
Culture Laboratory: Response I & II
RESPONSE I & II: Culture Laboratory Collective in collaboration with Ben Lewis and Noah Simblist
Martha Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
January 26- Feb 21, 2012
(curated and coordinated by Ian F. Thomas.)
Ryder’s Contributions:
Review: Culture Laboratory’s “Land Portrait” Exhibit
“Earth isn’t always what we try to make of it” By Scott Andrews
Culture Laboratory Collective: Land Portrait
San Antonio Current, JANUARY 11, 2012
… Instead of body-as-terrain, “Marking Time: Erosion” by Ryder Richards and Loren Erdrich’s “Exit Strategy” show the body against terrain. They are two of the most compelling works in the exhibition. Richards’ piece is a sculpture made of 2×4-inch lumber, plastic, and gold leaf, and a video documenting its construction. Boards are bound to his legs like stilts. As he hammers and fusses with materials, he seems literally suspended by his work.
read the full review here.
images, performance videos and Ryder’s statement for the exhibition: Land Portrait
Review: Culture Laboratory’s “Co: Modify” exhibit
Glasstire.com – “Co-Modify: Culture Lab Collective” at Victoria’s Nave Museum
“Anything can be made better by deep-frying it,” he writes in his artist statement. Richards’s piece, Fried Gold: Best Idea Ever, is the highlight of Co-Modify, on view at Victoria’s Nave Museum through January 21. The piece consists of four battered and deep fried, gold-plated necklaces hung on an otherwise bare gallery wall. What better symbol of vapid, self-destructive consumer gluttony in a year when deep fried butter was the biggest hit at the Texas State Fair? The fact that the necklaces are not even solid gold, but gold-plated, drives the point home even further—the “gold” is really just a base alloy with a surface-level gilding—its depth measured in micrometers. Even the fried batter coating is thicker than the layer of gold.
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January exhibits
It has turned into a busy, productive January. I will be displaying work in three juried exhibitions, a curated show and art auction, as well as the three Culture Laboratory exhibits. This will be my first time to show in California, Ohio, or Seattle and two of these shows are Museums, which is also a first me.
Jan 9- Feb 22, 2012
“Americas 2012: Paperworks”
Juror: Michael Barnes, Printmaking Professor @ Northern Illinois University in DeKalb
Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND
Jan 19 – June 17, 2012
NCECA Invitational: “Push Play”
Juror: Linda Ganstrom
Bellevue Museum, Seattle, WA
Jan 27- Feb 24, 2012
“Out of the Gray”
Jury by panel and curator
Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Jan 26- Feb 21, 2012
“Big and Bright in Texas”
Curator: Jessica McCambly,
Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista College, Chula Vista, CA
Jan 27, 2012
“Disaster Ball”
Glasstire.com and Fresh Arts Coalition Fundraiser
3410 Montrose, Houston, TX
CULTURE LABORATORY exhibits and reviews:
Dec 9– Jan 22, 2012
“Co:Modify”
Curated by Shreepad Joglekar_ review in Glasstire.com
Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
Jan 5- Jan 27, 2012
“Land Portrait”
Curated by Brian Jobe_ review in San Antonio Current
UTSA Satellite Space, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX
Jan 26- Feb 24, 2012
“Response I & II”
Curated by Ryder Richards, Coordinated by Ian F. Thomas
Marta Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock Univ., Slippery Rock, PA
Marked Time: Erosion and Compression
Land Portrait
(Coordinated and Curated by Brian Jobe.)
January 5- January 27, 2012 _ Opening Reception: Jan 5 & 6, 2012
UTSA Satellite Space, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX
