Series: Work/Play || DIY Trying || Authority || American Paintings/Drawings || Eyewash
Solo Exhibitions: a thing of this world, Laredo || Invisible Hand, Dallas || Lookout, Chattanooga
Group Exhibitions: Objectives, ArtPace, San Antonio || Drawing Quote Unquote, Richardson || ArtSmarter Prize, Dallas || Document V, St. Louis || Open House, PRP, Dallas || Impossible States, Dallas|| Paradise vs. Utopia, Dallas || The Gun Show, Lubbock || London Art Fair, Decorazon || Wow, now That’s What I Call Stand-Up Vol.1, Nasher, Dallas
Additional: Artist Residency Chattanooga, Chattanooga || Mini-Residency, Brooklyn || Hambidge Art Auction, Atlanta || Donations
Work/Play
Authority
Striping as authoritarian symbology, modern design and confused/appropriated authorship and power.
Authority VI _ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel_41″x21″ Authority V_ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel_19″x16″ Authority V (detail) Authority IV _ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel_28″x21″ Authority III _ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel_ 20″x11″ Authority II _ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel_ 24.5″x16.5″ Authority I _ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel_ 41″x25″ Authority IV (detail) Authority III (detail) Authority VI_ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel Authority X_ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel Authority IX_ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel Authority VIII_ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel Authority VII_ gunpowder, pigment, acrylic on panel
American Paintings
American libertarian terms reveal partially redacted text from Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation,” partially protected by rhinoliner mimicking truck decal patterns and support blocks.
Made with rhinoliner on top of buffed resin covering acrylic painting on panel, with various striped supports/blocks.
“American Paintings: Sovereign Citizens and Citadel” “American Paintings: American Redoubt, Redemption Theory, and Citadel” “Sovereign Citizens” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood, ash_ 60″x18″x16″ “Redemption Theory” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood, red oak_ 60″x12″x16″ “Redemption Theory” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood, red oak_ 60″x12″x16″ “Posse Comitatus” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood_ 60″x22″x16″ “Redemption Theory” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood, aspen_ 60″x22″x16″ “Citadel” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood aspen_ 60″x8″x16″ “American Exceptionalism” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood_ 60″x24″x16″ “American Redoubt” rhinoliner, resin, acrylic, wood_ 60″x24″x16″
American Drawings
American Drawing: Stupidity_ 22″x15″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Self Study 2_ 15″x11″ graphite, pigment, acrylic and rhinoliner on paper American Drawing: Self Study 1_ 15″x11″ graphite, pigment, acrylic and rhinoliner on paper American Drawing: Religious Fanatic_ 15″x11″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Radical Individualism_ 15″x11″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Public Address_ 22″x15″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing:Primitive Lower Class _ 22″x15″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Elitist Liberal_ 22″x15″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Object Desire _30″x22.5″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Libidinal Desires_ 30″x22.5″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Personal Political (post-tolerance)_ 30″x22.5″ graphite, pigment, acrylic on paper American Drawing: Stupid Tourist _ 44″x30″ acrylic, rhinoliner, pigment, graphite on paper Fuck Yeah_44″x30″ graphite, pigment, acrylic and rhinoliner on paper High Ground_ 44″x30″ graphite, pigment, acrylic and rhinoliner on paper Ideological Edifice (Doom)_ 44″x30″ graphite, pigment, acrylic and rhinoliner on paper Lookout_ 44″x30″ graphite, pigment, acrylic and rhinoliner on paper
Eyewash




A series of works inspired by the CIA.
Solo Exhibitions




[solo] a thing of this world
Laredo College, Laredo, Texas
January 21- February 25, 2016




[solo] Invisible Hand
Beefhaus, Dallas [link]
September 24- October 7, 2016




[solo] Lookout
Swine, Chattanooga, Tennessee [link]
November 4th, 2016
Group Exhibitions




Objectives
Artists selected by Denise Markonish [Mass MOCA]
Exhibition curated by Taylor Bates [Artpace]
Hudson Show Room
ArtPace, San Antonio, TX [link]
September 22- December 30, 2016
PRESS: San Antonio Current [link]
PRESS: Arts & Culture Magazine [link]
PRESS: The Paisano [link]




Drawing Quote Unquote
Edith O’Donnell Gallery, University of Texas, Dallas
January 15- February 2, 2016Participating Artists: Shelby Cunningham, Ben Bascombe, K. Yoland, Rebecca Carter, Ryder Richards, David Willburn, Nicholas C. Mathis, Fred Villanueva, Vincent Falsetta, John Hernandez, Erik Schuessler, Vance Wingate, Kristen Cochran, Marcelyn McNeil , Jeff Gibbons, Sandra Lara, Heyd Fontenot, Michael A. Morris, Sara Cardona, John A. Hernandez, Mary Ellen Lacy, Doug Land, Peter Ligon, Bruce Lee Webb, Olive Gee Hellstrom, Joachim West, Shawn Mayer, William Binnie, Zoetina Veal, Teresa Gomez-Martorell




ArtSmarter Prize
curated by Frank Artsmarter
Cris Worley Gallery, Dallas, Texas
June 3rd, 2016




Document V
The Luminary
St. Louis, Missouri
Curated by James McAnally and Sarrita Hun of Temporary Art Review
March 25 – May 20, 2016
Opening on Friday, March 25th, Document V serves as an official record of Temporary Art Review as a public form, summarizing the first five years of collective research by a disparate group of artists, curators, observers, activists and critics.
Participating artists and projects include: ACRE TV; Colin Alexander; Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez); BFAMFAPhd (Caroline Woolard); Mike Calway-Fagen; Steven Cottingham; Paul Druecke; Nihaal Faizal; Good Weather (Haynes Riley presenting Matthew Kerkhof); Sam Gould / Red76; Gelare Khosgozaran; Jonathan Hanahan; Museum of Capitalism; Ryder Richards; Signal Fire; Christine Wong Yap and others.
Additionally, a commemorative book and exhibition catalog will follow later in the year.




Open House
PRP, Dallas
October 15, 2016
Pierre Krause, Michael Mazurek, Peter Bo Rappmund, Ryder Richards, and Michael Wynne




Impossible States
El Centro College & Ro2 Art, Dallas
September 6-30, 2016
Participating Artists:
Dwayne Carter, Danielle Georgiou, Randy Guthmiller, Rachel Muldez,
Ryder Richards, Marilyn Waligore, Carlo Zinzi




Paradise vs. Utopia: Disputed Ideals
Ro2 Art
, Dallas
Saturday, November 19th, 2016




Gun Show! art in the era of campus carry
Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas [link]
October 15- December 18th, 2016




London Art Fair
Decorazon Gallery
January 2016




Wow, now That’s What I Call Stand-Up Vol.1
An evening of comedic performance programmed by Lee Escobedo
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas [link]
September 19th, 8-10 PM
Residencies




ARC (Artist Residency Chattanooga)
Chattanooga, Tennessee [link]
October 9- November 9, 2016 (proposed dates)




Mini-Residency
Public Address, Brooklyn
August 9- August 16, 2016
Additional




Hambidge Art Auction [link]
selected by Adrienne Outlaw (of Seedspace, Nashville)
Atlanta, Georgia
April 23, 2016
Donations




Altered WORK!
Spay Neuter Network
Kettle Art, DallasParticipating artists: Kate Horne, Kristen Cochran, John Frost, Ryder Richards, Zach Grant, Ashleigh Luke, Pati Dye, Val Curry, Josephine Durkin




Annual 5×7
Medici Circle, Texas Tech School of Art
Lubbock, Texas
15th Anniversary Exhibition
Soo Visual Arts Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota