Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)

Sweet late song man who creeps into memory.

Monday, September 14, 2009

this friday night at the Torrance Art Museum





Come join us at TAM on the sculpture deck for the free screening of Abel Raises Cain. This is a hilarious documentary made by Jenny Abel telling the story of her media prankster parents. Visit http://www.abelraisescain.com/ for more information on the film. The evening begins at 8 with an intro by Jenny and will end with a q & a session.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

St. Vincent - The Strangers [live on Lake Fever Sessions]

Heeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrts.

Julie Doiron - Me and My Friend

I love this song so it's a half stoked/half tripped post because the video was posted in 2006 which is around the time Brad Eberhard introduced me to youtube. This trips me out because time moves so quickly now that a 2006 post seems ancient. Time flies?

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Ooooooh boy.


This means it's official. I really do now co-own/run a gallery.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

XLR8R TV Episode 31: Dan Deacon

Awww Dan Deacon. I love this fellow. He'll be in LA this weekend for FYF fest. Good stuff.

Dan Deacon on NBC morning

Friday, September 4, 2009

Peter Alexander this month in the big apple...


Peter Alexander, who is a seminal figure in Los Angeles art, and who will be featured in my first show at the new Raid Projects in LA, opens a decades spanning show in New York this month. Congrats Peter!!

His resin pieces are beautiful and having seen them together and well lit, I am stoked for all who will get to visit this exhibit.

Newest curatorial endevour

My dad hooked up the space, and we curated the show. This will be awesome. The Pacific Design Center has opened up it's vacant spaces to curators and dealers. So Carl Berg, Christopher Grimes and loads of others are turning this into an art mall of sorts, right on Santa Monica Blvd. It should be an awesome situation. Thank you to all of our artists and to Honor Fraser gallery for your generosity.

Aususta Wood's new site...


Los Angeles photographer Augusta Wood who will be featured in the upcoming TAM group show Baker's Dozen. She just launched a newly updated site so absorb some of her awesomeness at www.augustawood.com.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Chris Martin Studio Visit Part II

Chris Martin Studio Visit Part I

Good stuff. James Kalm makes for some awesome clunky interviewing.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009




I am going to document the life of buildup of a Ryan painting. For me, that is the magic of painting. The buildup, the layers, what comes through, how the whole thing is structured, how each step informs the next. Mmmm, so cathartic. So here we go.

New jambox


http://www.thegreengallery.biz/kristin-calebrese is a link for Kristin Calabrese and Josh Aster's show called that they curated called Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children that will be at LACE on September 26th. All work is 11" x 11" or smaller and will be installed as part of LACE's art walk. This new piece will be in said show at said venue. I am stoked to be a part of this awesome show.
This piece follows the system explained below and the original text is "to be free" and it goes from there.

When Dividing Space Runs Amok


I enjoy enacting systems and following them to the fullest degree. I've written about this before. This painting and the one's I have been working on this year have begun with a geometric laying down of the cirlcles and squares of phrases that I meditate on that I translate into Morse Code. I like the idea of talking about God (which a lot of people treat as a dead dialogue) using a dead technilogical language. Then I divide the space around the laid out code and see what happens. This one took me somewhere and shit go away from me but at least it brought me back home.
The original text says "I will not be a prisoner" which is the chorus to an old Little Wings song. But I like how it rings like an old gospel chorus. This guy needs to be wrangled in a bit but I like where it's going.

Statement...

The work I have been making for the last couple of years is primarily about conceptual and pictoral exploration. Following rabbit holes of ideas, visual stimuli, process, pictoral structure, and what it looks like when I trace my time by having said traced time manifested visually or situationally. My work varies with each new smaller project that I am working on but the above umbrella is how I work. My overall artistic project is less about a rigid research of a few well articulated ideas, and much more about “maybes” and “what ifs”. Theology, philosophy, freedom, and the like, have metaphors that lie dormant waiting to be discovered and brought to light, and art making is where I find these most often.

Resume


I eat, sleep, surf, and make art in Seal Beach CA
MFA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA 2007
BA Biola University, La Mirada CA, 2002

Select Solo Shows:
2009 Are You Ready To Testify, Taylor De Cordoba, Los
Angeles CA
2007 The Grand Order of the Salt Dippers, MFA thesis show, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2006 How It Feels To Be Something On, Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City CA
2004 Do You Hear Me?, Ghetto Gloss, Los Angeles CA
2003 Memoirs For My Wake, Ghetto Gloss, Los Angeles CA

Select Group Shows:
2010 The OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna CA
2009 ARTRA at the T-Lofts, Santa Monica CA
Orphan Kitties Go To The Circus, LACE, Los Angeles CA
2008 Cover Version, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles CA
2007 Aqua Art Fair (Taylor De Cordoba), Miami FL
OCMA Benefit Art Auction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Art LA (Taylor De Cordoba), Santa Monica Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
2005 Easy Action, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana CA
Collectors Series, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004 Tree Trimmings, Track 16, Santa Monica CA
Paper Works, Mimi Barr Gallery, San Francisco CA
The DL, Star Shoes, Los Angeles CA and traveled to Tokyo

Select Press:
2009 New American Paintings,
Riviera Magazine, 12/09
Los Angeles Times, "Design Loves Art" by Suzanne Muchnic, 9/23/09
2008 New American Paintings
2008 Los Angeles Times, "Cover Version..." by Lynell George, 7/13/08
2007 Los Angeles Times, "45 Painters Under 45" by Christopher Knight, 12/2/07
2006 ArtForum, 3/06
2005 OC Weekly, "Step to the New", 6/9/05
2003 ArtWeek, review by Craig Stevens of Memoirs For My Wake @ Ghetto Gloss, 6/03

Random Other Resume Worthy Things:
2007/2008 I taught two sections of 4D design (new media) at Biola University, La Mirada CA
Paintings Edge Residency, Idywild CA
I did the album art for singer/songwriter supreme Barrett Johnson's new record, In Case I Went Missing and two covers for the band Summer Darling's e.p.'s
2006 I had paintings in 2 movies, Art School Confidencial, and Havoc
I did art for the interior for the awesome shop Scout in LA
2004 I had a painting sell at Christies in NYC for a benefit sale held by Chrylalis Records
I also had a fake solo show at Ghetto Gloss to film the fake reality show about Roseanne Barr. That was weird.

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