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Podcast: The Will to DIY

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the will to diy

Podcast: A workbench for Ryder’s thoughts on DIY, Art and Philosophy.

To DIY is to be permanently amateur.

During Spring 2020 Ryder began “podcasting” … Hyperbolic statements occasionally reveal some underlying logic, and in blathering about his readings paired with observations Ryder attempts to document some thoughts on DIY, politics, and art.

In 2019, after considering some notions of class and the art world Ryder began a series of essays on the space from which a DIY amateur operates. Rebutting the often alleged thrift of DIY in favor of a mindset of rebellion and action the podcasts walk through the political implications of a community that builds without drifting into the psychosis of prepper culture.

In short, this is a place where he can tinker with ideas until they blossom into homegrown propaganda.

The Will to DIY

1/2021 _ UPDATE: Title has changed to “Let’s THINK About It” due to much confusion by listeners.

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Press ~ A Saturday with Bush League

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Bat engaving (detail)

A Saturday With the Bush League

by Colette Copeland 
October 23, 2019
Glasstire.com

On Saturday, October 19, I spent the afternoon at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas  for the opening reception and performances for Bush League, the current exhibition by the Texas-based art collective BUXTOOF/Cattywampus Press. San Antonio artists Daedelus Hoffman and Lindsay Starr founded the press and the exhibition project Dirty Dark Place (Backdoor Biennial). The duo’s mission is to provide free creative experiences in non-traditional settings. Hoffman gave me a tour of the Sweet Pass exhibition, which includes a lot of site-specific interventions within the park and addresses a baseball theme. On the day I was there, the performances and installations generated a carnival-like atmosphere. 

My first encounter was with men wearing ‘Bush League’ baseball jerseys. The center of the park had been transformed into a baseball diamond. There was a rubber chicken wrapped in barbed wire on the pitcher’s mound — a ‘choked chicken’ reference. And the sexual (i.e. baseball) references continued throughout the day, including what I thought was a sex shack in the rear corner of the lot. Thankfully some little leaguers set me straight and told me it was a dugout. I had my Bush League tarot card reading by Olivia Salazar. Evidently, something bad is imminent in my future, since the slugger card was upside down. I played catch with the mascot Petie Sweet (Matthew Maher) and refrained from getting a Wild Thing/Major League Charlie Sheen hair cut. I did however, witness three others getting a Wild Thing cut, courtesy of Sweet Pass co-founder Tamara Johnson. 

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Press~ “Objectives” at Artpace

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Texas Artists Elevate Ordinary Materials into High-concept Works

by  || San Antonio Current 
October 05, 2016 at 6:00 AM

Work/Play: Stack
Work/Play: Stack

After selecting the current trio of female artists for Artpace’s fall 2016 International Artist-in-Residence program, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) curator Denise Markonish once again lends a curatorial hand in this fall’s Hudson Showroom exhibition. Titled “Objectives,” the exhibition brings together three distinct Texas artists, each with a focus on found objects.

Redaction of Labor III (pre-action)
Redaction of Labor III (pre-action)

Easily the most conceptual work in this show is Richards’ Redaction of Labor III, which, as of opening night was nothing more than a stack of sheetrock and lumber placed in front of one of the gallery’s white walls. Over the coming months, the artist plans to use the materials to construct a wall that will cover an existing wall, essentially becoming part of — and disappearing into — the gallery. Here, in a sort of mocking manner, Richards redirects our attention to the often unseen labor invested in artwork and the often fleeting nature of its end results.

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~ Many thanks to Marco Aquino and the staff at Artpace.

Preview~ ArtSmarter Prize, Dallas

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arsmarterprize-16

What Would You Do For Love?
ArtSmarter Prize 2016 [link]
Frank ArtSmarter in partnership with Glasstire.com [link]
Dallas
April 2016

Richards has begun his compelling and exhaustive artistic process. Below is a promo of his work for ArtSmarter Prize 2016:

Dallas, TX, August 10, 2015 –  Glasstire is pleased to announce a unique partnership with artist Frank ArtSmarter for a Texas-wide initiative called the ArtSmarterPrize 2016, with the award ceremony to be hosted in Dallas in April of 2016. Cash prizes and artist-designed trophies will be presented to winning artists, or maybe to every artist—we don’t know—and the blockbuster event is expected to draw perhaps dozens of online views. This is a themed invitational, and the theme for artists to consider when creating incredibly pandering work for the ArtSmarterPrize 2016 is: “What Would You Do For Love?”

Participating Artists include Rebecca Carter, Chuck & George, Lauren Cross, Heyd Fontenot, Justin Ginsberg, Sally Glass, Courtney Hamilton, Robert Jackson Harrington, Patrick Kelly, Kelly Kroener, Annette Lawrence, Rachel Livedalen, Shelby Meier, Devon Nowlin, Jamie Panzer, Ryder Richards, Sue Anne Rische, Gaile Robinson, Lauren Smart, Erin Stafford, Kevin Todora, Liz Trosper Taylor, Sally Warren, and Lauren Woods.

 

Solo: The Idyll, Houston

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The Idyll

Jan. 23- Feb. 28, 2015
Cecily Horton Gallery, Lawndale, Houston, Texas
Opening Reception: Jan. 23rd, from 6:30-8:30

Proposal to Lawndale:
After reading The Radicant an odd paranoia set in considering the role of global standardization through modernist universalism and the reaction against it: a re-entrenchment in cultural or nationalistic identity. Considering the notion that modernism is an aesthetic stripped of identity, essentially empty of humanist value, can be echoed in the globalized individual who has no roots, and thus no identity. One may even be tempted to assume the traits (or lack of traits) present in our surroundings can be transmuted to the individual: environmental determinism of vacancy.

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