Art 2014 - Ryder Richards

2014 Series: Utopia: Practical Notions || Redaction/Reduction || Simulacra || Subjective Machines
Solo Exhibit: Conversations from the Museum of the Uninformed
Group Shows: Lone Star State || Dallas Biennial 2014 || Installment || Body Politics ||
Culture Laboratory: Utopia: Can It Stay Dream? || Sphere
RJP Nomadic Gallery: CTRL+P
Projects: Venice Architecture Biennial, Redaction of Labor, Redaction of Labor II || Curator: Mute
Writing: Eutopia, Glasstire

Utopia: Practical Notions series draws from several sources, such as Thomas Moore’s “Utopia,” but most prominently from David Flynn’s interpretation of Isaac Newton’s religious codex on the temporal/spatial center of the world as the Dome of the Rock. The completed series involves several plans, fragments, and half-finished sculptures revealing an ever-shifting philosophy of Utopia as an attempt at perfection and the redaction of vital information as a means to occlude/protect the most valuable ideas.

Reduction/Redaction series: An investigation of materials and making methods utilizing one form- a redaction mark from the FBI’s file on Roswell’s UFO incident – the series considers the removal of information as a signature/mark that conveys information.

Redaction/Reduction: Astringent_ plaster, graphite_ 27x12x2

Redaction/Reduction: Unactionable Pit_ plaster, graphite_ 27x12x2

Redaction/Reduction: Impediment to Survival_ graphite, plaster, pigment_ 27x12x3

Reduction/Redaction: Habitual Disdain_ plaster, graphite

Redaction/Reduction: Projects of Intimacy_ velvet, plaster_ 27x12x3

Redaction/Reduction: Elementary Noise Interference_ resin, T-square_ 44x19x5

Redaction/Reduction: Personalized Anecdotes_ plastic, acrylic, wooden mannequin_ 14″x14x7″

Reduction/Redaction: Half Words_ plaster, graphite, wood_ 13x27x4

Redaction/Reduction: Problems of Believability_ wood, stain, acrylic, fabric_ 29x29x3

Redaction/Reduction: To Refrain from Storytelling_ plaster, wood, gold leaf, acrylic_ 29x13x5

Redaction/Reduction: To Refrain from Storytelling_ (det)

Reduction/Redaction: Body Translucent_ resin_ 12x6x8

Redaction/Reduction: The Diplomatic Word_ graphite, silverleaf on paper

Simulacra series comes from questioning text as an informational delivery system and it’s ubiquity as a form of loss.

Simulation/Simuacra 8_ acrylic, resin, wood

Simulation/Simuacra 3_ acrylic, vinyl, paper

Simulation/Simuacra 4_ acrylic, vinyl, graphite, paper

Simulation/Simuacra 5_ acrylic, vinyl, paper

Simulation/Simuacra 6_ acrylic, vinyl, graphite, paper

Subjective Machines is a series of works derived from modernism as a universal cult dedicated to an aesthetics of knowledge. Works are created for The Idyll (solo exhibit) pairing modernism’s faith in science with religion, stripping identity in favor of communality.

Subjective Machines: Platonic Solids_ resin, plastic, wood

Subjective Machines: Reflection, Standing

(Panels are wood, all text is painted acrylic with resin sanded to a matte-finish. Drawings are acrylic and black pigment on paper.)

SOLO EXHIBIT

Conversations from the Museum of the Uninformed

December 20, 2013 – January 31, 2014
BLUEorange, Houston

GROUP SHOWS

Lone Star State

June 14, 2014
(curated by Nino Baumgartner and Karin Lehmann)
Olm Space, Neuchatel, Switzerland
[video, images & text]

1-I Could Love You Less — “I Could Love You Less: The Critical Self Consciousness of Hyper-modernity” _ temporary gallery space, light, art, 106″x126″x101″

Dallas Biennial 2014

April 12- May 2, 2014
Warehouse, 500 Singleton Blvd, Dallas [link]

Dallas Biennial 2014 venue featuring 20 international artists.
Margaret Meehan, Bjorn Ross, VIncent Ramos, Lucia Simek, Michelle Rawlings, Oliver Laric, Bradly Brown, Michael Wynne, Kristin Mariani, Darryl Lauster, Jeff Gibbons, Hannah Hudson, Ryder Richards, Shaun Leonardo, Michael Schmacke, Francisco Moreno, Alterazioni Video, Geraldine Gliubislavich, Karin Lehmann, Lou Mallozzi, Lana Paninchul and Bonny Poon.

DB14 Panel Discussion
McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas [link]
May 3, 2014 @ 2PM
Moderator: Stephen Lapthisophon. Panelists: Darryl Lauster, Francisco Moreno, Michelle Rawlings, Ryder Richards, Lucia Simek, and Cauleen Smith

Installment

Brett Herron & Ryder Richards
Studio 2504, West Virginia University
May 5- June 5, 2014

Body Politics

Nomadic Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
October 3, 2014

Culture Laboratory
Utopia: Can It Stay Dream?

June 7- June 28, 2014
(curated by Brian R. Jobe and Ryder Richards)
Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee

Ryder’s Piece: Utopia: Cyclic Hypnotic Binaural Closed-System Purification
5-gallon buckets, three ceramic purification filters, water pump, mood lights, video projection, speakers and amps, Gamma and Delta binaural sound _ 7′x3′x2′
[video & text]

Culture Laboratory: Sphere

Aug 24- September 20, 2014
(curated by Jonathan Whitfill)
Studio 2504, Morgantown, WV
[video & text]

RJP Nomadic Gallery: CTRL+P

May 16 – August 24, 2014
(curated by Anna Walker)
Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, North Carolina

PROJECTS

La Biennale di Venezia

May 16-June 8, 2014
Staff: US Architecture Pavilion, Store Front for Art and Architecture‘s OfficeUS, Venice, Italy

Redaction of Labor

1 pint of high gain metallic paint ($300), 1 gallon of white acrylic ($50), and one day of labor.
Labor for OfficeUS, Storefront for Art and Architecture,
La Biennale di Venezia 2014, Venice, Italy.
[video documentation]