October 14 – November 10, 2016
Opening reception: October 14, 7–9
Steve Turner is pleased to present Barbara Lee, a solo exhibition by New York-based Ryder Ripps consisting of fifty thousand small photographic images presented on 120 square feet of shallow platforms on which visitors can walk or sit. Two similarly adorned obelisks will rise up from the platform. Ripps only sought images that have strong visual impact and legibility when reduced to one-half inch squares. According to Ripps, “In the attention economy, images are in a Darwinian struggle where only the least nuanced and most sensational survive. The image feed is selfish and grotesque; it disregards the past; it favors divisive content; it is not concerned with ideas and it favors those that have an insatiable appetite for attention.” Barbara Lee is notable as the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the authorization of use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Ryder Ripps (born New York, 1986) earned a BA from the New School, New York (2008) before establishing dump.fm, a platform for real-time image communication (2009) and OKFocus, a creative agency (2011). In 2015 he had solo exhibitions at Postmasters, New York and Red Bull Studios. This is his first exhibition at Steve Turner.
Born 1986, New York
Lives and works in New York
Education
2008
BA, The New School, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Barbara Lee, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2015
Alone Together, Red Bull Studios, New York
Ho, Postmasters, New York
Group Exhibitions
2016
rheo GRANDE, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City
The Real World, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
NOT A PHOTO, The Hole, New York
Surph Barn Show, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York
2015
FOMO, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille
2014
Portrait In The Twenty-First Century, Postmasters, New York
Unoriginal Genius, Carroll/Fletcher, London
…all but for the buzzing…, Royal College of Art, MFA exhibition, London
2011
Rhizome Benefit, New Museum, New York
DIS_RT, HDBOYZ Performance, MoMa PS1, New York
Past Futures with Sun Ra, Eyebeam, New York
READ/WRITE, 319 Scholes, New York
Do-It Manual, RMCAD, Colorado
Miami Art Basel Oceanfront, (with AIDS-3D), Miami
2010
Seminal Netart show, JstChillin, Online
DUMP.FM IRL, 319 Scholes, New York
Bring Your Own Beamer, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Bibliography
2016
Caroline Elbador, The 10 Most Controversial Art Projects of the Last Century, July
2015
Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter, Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture), 2015, The MIT Press
Ahmen, Kareem, Ryder Ripps on Putting Virtual Reality Into a Box, New York Times, February
Manning, Emily, How Ryder Ripps is #making The Internet, i-D Magazine, March
Dafoe, Taylor, Ryder Ripps, Ho, The Brooklyn Rail, March
2014
Joanne McNeill, Domenico Quaranta, Nick Lambert, Art and the Internet, Black Dog Publishing
Chen, Adrian, Ryder Ripps: An Artist of The Internet, The New York Times, July
2012
Pathak Shareen, Creativity 50, AdAge, July
Kaganskiy, Julia, OKFocus Thinks Your Web Design Sucks, Vice, April
2011
Johnson, Paddy, Ripps It Up, Print Magazine, October
2009
Crowley, David, Internet Archaeology: In which the internet’s sordid past is preserved and curated, TechCrunch, October
Selected lectures and talks
2016
Semi Permanent, New Zealand
2015
Visiting Lecture, RISD
Art in the Age of Social Media: Right of Publicity and Copyright, Sotheby’s Art Institute
2014
Instagram Mini-Marathon, Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Million Dollar Theater
Lecture for AIGA, Museum of Design
2013
Rhizome, 7 on 7, Barbican Center
2012
LunchBytes, Goethe-Institut/Smithsonian
Guest Lecture, OTIS College
2011
Rhizome Panel, SXSW
