The Front Collective - Three Group Exhibitions

This January I had work in three group shows with The Front. The first, "Carry On", was a two part exhibition in Mexico city. This show was part of an exchange we did with Feral, a Mexico City based collective who came to New Orleans to do a show at The Front last July.

The first part, where Front members showed individual works, was held at Galeria Breve in the Centro Histórico from January 7th-23rd.

Talking with Jorge, the owner of Galeria Breve.

A shot of my video, Lost Archives, through the window.

The second part was at Galeria Feral from January 9th-28th. In this show, we each created an 11x17" work on paper representing our interpretation of an altar. We also projected a group video project where we walked in a processional of costumes along the Levee in New Orleans. 

Altar Drawing, Ryn Wilson, 11x17", 2015

Processional Video, The Front, 2015

The third show was a new and old member show at the Front from January 9th-February 7th. 

SHIFTCHANGE featured the work of our talented new members; Kevin Baer, Vanessa Centeno, Patrick Coll, Kelly Mueller, Cynthia Scott, Patch Somerville and Madeine Wieand,

as well as our returning old members; Lee Deigaard, Imen Djouini, John Isiah Walton, Cristina Molina, Brooke Pickett, Alex Podesta, Claire Rau, Jamie Solock, Jonathan Traviesa, Jessie Vogel, Ryn Wilson

I had a two channel video on display, which is the beginning of a larger project I will exhibit this August. The work investigates witch hunts, past and present. In this piece I take devices used against the "witches", rotten eggs and fire, and put them into the hands of the accused.

Means, Motive, Opportunity a PhotoNOLA exhibition

I had work in a group photo show last month coinciding with PhotoNola.

Means, Motive, Opportunity
 

A four-room photography show group-curated by The Front artist collective features works by Justin Baker, Angela Berry, Carlos Jimnez Cahua, Lee Deigaard, Sam Feather-Garner, Edna Lanieri, Jennifer McClure, Cristina Molina, Alex Podesta, Akasha Rabut, Claire Rau, Erik Schubert, Matt Shain, Mitchell Soileau, Jonathan Traviesa, John Isiah Walton, and Ryn Wilson.

Detective, culprit, innocent bystander, false witness. Opportunist, victim of misadventure, lucky guesser. Inciter, corrupter, seeker. Artists with cameras pursue the red herring, concoct alibis, and find incriminating clues. 

 

The show "Discipline", that I collaborated on with Peter Hoffman in February, made it on the best exhibitions of 2015 list by Rebecca Reynolds for Burnaway.org

Read more here:

Feature : BURNAWAY’s Best of 2015: Exhibitions 

Lost Archives at The Front

I have a show coming up at The Front November 14th - December 6th.  
Lost Archives is an exhibition of all new work including video, photo, collage, painting and drawing. 

Statement:

Lost Archives is the collection of a fictional museum display, an alternate system for categorizing and exploring the natural world. The work in this show utilizes a variety of collage approaches as a way of creating order from seemingly random elements. Clips from various nature videos are layered together in a similar fashion to the shelves of collaged cards created from found and generated components. Landscapes are altered in an attempt to cull patterns from the shapes within. Natural elements are magnified, mirrored, multiplied and put on display.

Lost Archives began its formation after a visit to the Natural History Museum in New York City earlier this year. The endless halls of carefully crafted displays showcasing the mysteries of the universe peaked my interest into the connection between geometry and nature. The push and pull of order vs. chaos is apparent in the constant human struggle to control nature and it’s inevitable destructive forces. The museum displays elements of this planet in a perfection that is antithetical to its subject matter. Taxonomy’s, charts, graphs, labels and other systems are put upon these wild elements in a manner which fringes on absurdity. It is both proof of the incredible achievements of the human mind and a humbling reminder that nature will never be tamed.

 

  

 

Video Stills from Lost Archives, 2015, Digital Video, 4min, 17sec

DIAS Urban Collection

My video Parallel Realms, is now a part of the permanent collection at the Digital Interactive Art Space in Vallensbæk, Norway. They will be screening it this summer as part of the DIAS Urban Collection.

DIAS Urban Collection
June 18. – August 7.
Welcome, DIAS Urban Collection! On June 18th, we open our summer exhibition DIAS Urban Collection. The exhibition presents a selection of pieces from our newly founded DIAS Urban Collection- some are representations of important trends within the field of digital art, others are examples of site specific pieces created for DIAS at Vallensbæk Station. Recently, we held an Open Call and received many interesting ideas for pieces for the station, and we look forward to presenting works by Jacob Sikker Remin, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen and Brian Kure.
Part of DIAS Urban Collection is also the wonderful piece Pastellpop by Jan Brand and Bianca Stich, and more. Keep an eye on our website and drop by the station.
DIAS Urban Collection is on until August 7th.

Participants

Jacob Sikker Remin (dk)
Jytte Hye Jin Mortensen (dk)
Brian Kure (dk)
Carl-Emil Carlsen (dk)
Søren Lyngsøe Knudsen (dk)
Ryn Wilson (us)
Jan Brand (de)
Bianca Stich (de)

Artists in Conversation: Pelican Bomb

I had the pleasure of recording a conversation with my mentor, Naomi Shersty, in January. It has been transcribed and published on Pelicanbomb.com.

Digital Native Film Festival at The Front

The events committee at The Front is gearing up to host a really excellent selection of films for our first open call shorts festival. We are excited to host an international selection of 32 video artists whose work explores concepts of mistranslations, glitches, and failures when combining new and old technical methods in their video making process.

Still from Anouchka Oler's Episode 2

Artists include:
Vanessa Centeno (USA)
Jason Childers (USA)
Megan Erwin (USA)
Liliana Farber (Israel)
Jessica Fenlon (USA)
Scott Fitzpatrick (Canada)
Dakota Gearhart (USA)
Bob Gelle and Chee Wang Ng (USA)
Patty Harris (USA)
Lin Tzu Huan (Taiwan)
Madukhai Kaylin (USA)
John C. Kelley (USA)
Hye Young Kim (USA)
Chris King (USA)
Krefer (Brazil)
Peter Kusek (USA)
Christine Lucy Latimer (Canada)
Derek G. Larson (USA)
Maria Lino (USA)
Rebecca Nadjowski (USA)
Adam Scott Neal (USA)
Anouchka Oler (France)
Edward Ramsay-Morin (USA)
Banfield Rees (UK)
Kara Schmidt (USA)
Eric Souther (USA)
Matthew Thompson (USA)
Kelsey Velez (USA)
Matt Whitman (USA)
Tina Willgren (Sweden)
Dustin Zemel (USA)
John Zobele (USA)

Still from Derek Larson's H(TM)L5 or The Longest Mantra

Still from Peter Kusek's TIAGA (These Impulses Are Greatly Amplified)

Jurors:
Lee Deigaard
Imen Djouini
Cristina Molina
Ryn Wilson

Link to website

Link to Facebook event

Discipline at The Front, March 14th - April 5th, 2015

Discipline by Ryn Wilson and Peter Hoffman is on view at The Front from March 14th-April 5th.
 
Discipline is an installation primarily of works on paper including drawing, collage, sewing, gouache, watercolor, and ink.  The artists gave themselves the task to each make one work per week for twenty- two weeks, alternating on presenting a theme for each drawing.  The results are two separate takes on a challenge, usually meant to amuse the other in the title or phrasing of the theme.  Subjects range from porcupines, comic books, crop circles, eunuchs, and stowaways, to an increasing focus on mythology, mysticism, and outdated belief systems.  As much as the drawings are an exercise in exercising, they are also a display of simultaneous critique and belief in the images; a large and intentionally convoluted range of depictions, dutifully rendered.

Ryn Wilson and Peter Hoffman are New Orleans artists, both originally from different parts of Wisconsin.  Ryn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, and Peter received his BFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Both are recent graduates from the University of New Orleans Master of Fine Arts program (photography/video and painting/sculpture, respectively).  They reside together with two cats and a parakeet.

http://rynwilson.com/

http://phoffmanart.com/home.html

 

I also currently have work up at the Aquarium Gallery and Studios in a group show of work by current studio artists.