Friday, April 24, 2015
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.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
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.
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 Peter Kusek's
TIAGA (These Impulses Are Greatly Amplified)
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
Jurors:
Lee Deigaard
Imen Djouini
Cristina Molina
Ryn Wilson
Lee Deigaard
Imen Djouini
Cristina Molina
Ryn Wilson
Sunday, March 22, 2015
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/
I also currently have work up at the Aquarium Gallery and Studios in a group show of work by current studio artists.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Last day of Videoextravaganza #3 in Vallensbæk, Norway
Videoextravaganza #3 – Translocations, or on how presence in space can change (you)
Ryn Wilson, Jan Brand, Bianca Stich, Mircea Cantor, David Byrne, Stephan R. Johnson
18.12.2014 - 15.02.2015Here are some installation shots of the subway station video installation exhibition I participated in.
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Videoextravaganza #3 – Translocations, or on how presence in space can change (you)
My short film Parallel Realms is now screening in a funtional S-train
station in Vallensbæk, Norway as part of a public art event put on by
the Digital Interactive Art Space. It will run from December 18th -
February 15th, 2015.
The exhibition is about how we, as humans, constantly have to adapt to the situation, we are in. To ‘fit in’ and to create meaning and re-create ourselves in a changing everyday-life, where we are constantly challenged by factors outside ourselves. The philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard talks about this condition as ‘the collapse of the great narratives.’ As individuals we are aware of differences, diversity and the incompatibility between our wants and convictions – we can no longer explain our world in alignment with the traditional all-encompassing models established through political systems and religious convictions. The post-modern time we live in, is characterized by an overflow of small stories, we put together to a whole that makes sense for each one of us.
The title Translocations, or on how presence in space can change (you) refers on the one hand to the dynamic relationship between the individual and the circumstances we are part of. On the other, it refers to the troubles of translation that occurs, when we time and time again must re-create and re-interpret the specific situation. Is that even possible? Or is it a case of individual and place interacting in some kind of paradoxical or random interaction?
The exhibition theme tackles the way people experience and construct relation between cause and effect to create meaning. The pieces are selected with the wish to examine the contradictory relations not immediately explained by common logic of cause and effect.
Finally, the exhibition highlights a site-specific condition. DIAS as an art space is based on a ‘something’ which is placed in an unexpected and new context – the ‘translocation’. The art space disrupts the traditional framing of art, to allow digital art, digital logic and artistic strategies interplay with reality and the city space.
Parallel Realms, 2012-2013
Video, loop, color, 4:37 min.
The work is a commentary on the difficulties that can arise, when we repeatedly recreate and reinterpret ourselves in a specific situation, and how we as humans constantly have to adapt to the situation – both to “fit in” and to find meaning, thus being able to recreate ourselves in a changing everyday life, where we are constantly challenged by external factors.
In the video Ryn Wilson explores, with a lovely understated humor, the experience of placing oneself in a new context and thus be either participating in or observing the reality that is right there. By projecting herself into a film, the artist toys with our perception of, what it is we see. She thus becomes both a character in the fictional world and a critic who comments on the absurdity of the impact a film has on its viewers. She becomes both voyeur and exhibitionist at the same time.
The exhibition is about how we, as humans, constantly have to adapt to the situation, we are in. To ‘fit in’ and to create meaning and re-create ourselves in a changing everyday-life, where we are constantly challenged by factors outside ourselves. The philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard talks about this condition as ‘the collapse of the great narratives.’ As individuals we are aware of differences, diversity and the incompatibility between our wants and convictions – we can no longer explain our world in alignment with the traditional all-encompassing models established through political systems and religious convictions. The post-modern time we live in, is characterized by an overflow of small stories, we put together to a whole that makes sense for each one of us.
The title Translocations, or on how presence in space can change (you) refers on the one hand to the dynamic relationship between the individual and the circumstances we are part of. On the other, it refers to the troubles of translation that occurs, when we time and time again must re-create and re-interpret the specific situation. Is that even possible? Or is it a case of individual and place interacting in some kind of paradoxical or random interaction?
The exhibition theme tackles the way people experience and construct relation between cause and effect to create meaning. The pieces are selected with the wish to examine the contradictory relations not immediately explained by common logic of cause and effect.
Finally, the exhibition highlights a site-specific condition. DIAS as an art space is based on a ‘something’ which is placed in an unexpected and new context – the ‘translocation’. The art space disrupts the traditional framing of art, to allow digital art, digital logic and artistic strategies interplay with reality and the city space.
Parallel Realms, 2012-2013
Video, loop, color, 4:37 min.
The work is a commentary on the difficulties that can arise, when we repeatedly recreate and reinterpret ourselves in a specific situation, and how we as humans constantly have to adapt to the situation – both to “fit in” and to find meaning, thus being able to recreate ourselves in a changing everyday life, where we are constantly challenged by external factors.
In the video Ryn Wilson explores, with a lovely understated humor, the experience of placing oneself in a new context and thus be either participating in or observing the reality that is right there. By projecting herself into a film, the artist toys with our perception of, what it is we see. She thus becomes both a character in the fictional world and a critic who comments on the absurdity of the impact a film has on its viewers. She becomes both voyeur and exhibitionist at the same time.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Oppositions and Parallels by Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Naomi Shersty and Ryn Wilson
A group exhibition I organized is currently showing at the Front in conjunction with PhotoNOLA. I invited my former photography instructor, Naomi Shersty, and another New Orleans photographer, Robyn LeRoy-Evans to show, and am exhibiting a new photo-installation piece of my own. Come by during gallery hours, Sat/Sun 12-5pm or for the PhotoNOLA opening on Dec. 6th from 6-9pm. We will be doing a gallery walk through with the artists on Dec. 7th from 2-5pm. There are three other great photography shows in the gallery as well! http://nolafront.org/shows/2014-11-04-74
Oppositions and Parallels
Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Naomi Shersty, and Ryn Wilson
Oppositions and Parallels presents artwork by Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Naomi Shersty and Ryn Wilson. Using photography as a unifying medium, the exhibition identifies several opposing and overlapping themes within each artist’s practice. Sharing a mutual fascination with the relationship between environment and self, each artist has depicted the female body either in full or in part, as a distorted, fractured form, via text, or through the use of symbolic objects. Having traveled the United States as well as further afield, each artist has at some point found themselves to be the outsider, the newcomer, and the stranger. They have been transplanted into new environments, forced to navigate unknown territory, and have been met with both understanding and misperception along the way. These artworks explore associated feelings of confusion, loss, anxiety, desire, and loneliness, emotions which can arise from living an itinerant and malleable existence.
Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Bloom from the Forest Series, Metallic print mounted to Sintra, 8"x10", 2014
Robyn LeRoy-Evans
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a Canadian mother and Welsh father, Robyn LeRoy-Evans spent much of her early life on the move. In adulthood, travel has become something she craves. The new experiences, emotions, and challenges that unfamiliar locations hold are at the core of her photographic practice, compelling her to make physical responses to her ever changing surroundings. Her fascination with inanimate objects, particularly vessels, drapery, and furniture, could be attributed to a deep rooted desire to finally settle somewhere...to create the perfect home. Robyn currently divides herself between rural Carmarthenshire, Wales, and New Orleans, USA. In 2012 she achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University. Her most recent exhibition was the group show God’s Bridge X, at The Bowes Museum, in County Durham, UK.
http://robynleroyevans.com/home.html
Naomi Shersty, Jackfruit from the Swaddle Series, Archival inkjet print, 8" x 8", 2014
Oppositions and Parallels
Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Naomi Shersty, and Ryn Wilson
Oppositions and Parallels presents artwork by Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Naomi Shersty and Ryn Wilson. Using photography as a unifying medium, the exhibition identifies several opposing and overlapping themes within each artist’s practice. Sharing a mutual fascination with the relationship between environment and self, each artist has depicted the female body either in full or in part, as a distorted, fractured form, via text, or through the use of symbolic objects. Having traveled the United States as well as further afield, each artist has at some point found themselves to be the outsider, the newcomer, and the stranger. They have been transplanted into new environments, forced to navigate unknown territory, and have been met with both understanding and misperception along the way. These artworks explore associated feelings of confusion, loss, anxiety, desire, and loneliness, emotions which can arise from living an itinerant and malleable existence.
Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Bloom from the Forest Series, Metallic print mounted to Sintra, 8"x10", 2014
Robyn LeRoy-Evans
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a Canadian mother and Welsh father, Robyn LeRoy-Evans spent much of her early life on the move. In adulthood, travel has become something she craves. The new experiences, emotions, and challenges that unfamiliar locations hold are at the core of her photographic practice, compelling her to make physical responses to her ever changing surroundings. Her fascination with inanimate objects, particularly vessels, drapery, and furniture, could be attributed to a deep rooted desire to finally settle somewhere...to create the perfect home. Robyn currently divides herself between rural Carmarthenshire, Wales, and New Orleans, USA. In 2012 she achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University. Her most recent exhibition was the group show God’s Bridge X, at The Bowes Museum, in County Durham, UK.
http://robynleroyevans.com/home.html
Naomi Shersty, Jackfruit from the Swaddle Series, Archival inkjet print, 8" x 8", 2014
Naomi Shersty
Naomi Shersty has exhibited her multimedia artwork both nationally and internationally at venues such as the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR), and Gallery 00130 (Helsinki, Finland). Her photographs have been featured in numerous publications including Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies (University of Nebraska Press), Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice (Routledge), and Learning to Love You More (Pentel Publishing). Shersty received her BFA from The University of Florida, and her MFA from The University of New Mexico. She lives and works in Milwaukee, WI.
Naomi Shersty has exhibited her multimedia artwork both nationally and internationally at venues such as the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR), and Gallery 00130 (Helsinki, Finland). Her photographs have been featured in numerous publications including Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies (University of Nebraska Press), Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice (Routledge), and Learning to Love You More (Pentel Publishing). Shersty received her BFA from The University of Florida, and her MFA from The University of New Mexico. She lives and works in Milwaukee, WI.
Ryn Wilson, Oppositions and Parallels III, Archival inkjet print mounted to acrylic, mirror shelves, Dimensions Variable, 2014
Ryn Wilson
Ryn Wilson is a photography and video artist currently living and working in New Orleans. She grew up in the Mid West and received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 2006. She spent time studying in Thailand, China and Germany and worked as a photographer and artist’s assistant in Tokyo and Shanghai. She has exhibited in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Oslo, Stavanger, San Francisco, Austin, Milwaukee and New Orleans. Ryn received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2013 and is a member of the New Orleans artist collective and gallery, The Front.
http://rynwilson.com/
Ryn Wilson is a photography and video artist currently living and working in New Orleans. She grew up in the Mid West and received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 2006. She spent time studying in Thailand, China and Germany and worked as a photographer and artist’s assistant in Tokyo and Shanghai. She has exhibited in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Oslo, Stavanger, San Francisco, Austin, Milwaukee and New Orleans. Ryn received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2013 and is a member of the New Orleans artist collective and gallery, The Front.
http://rynwilson.com/
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Back to the Front
I have a piece in a group show at the Front, open Ocotober 11- November 2, 2014.
The Front • 4100 St. Claude Avenue • New Orleans, LA 70117 • Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm
The Great Escape, 2014, Digital Photograph, Suitcase, Sand
BACK TO THE FRONT
Back to front, present/future, top to bottom, inside/out, The Front
draws back the curtain for your viewing pleasure. With Freudian
Glaciers, Horses at the Museum, Great Escapes, Desert Cinema, Hunting
& Gathering, and more.
Rated F. For all audiences.
In conjunction with Prospect 3, The Front presents all new work by member artists:
Angela Berry
Brooke Pickett
Claire Rau
Cristina Molina
Eddie Lanieri
H. Cole Wiley
Imen Djounini
Jamie Solock
Jessie Vogel
John Isiah Walton
Jonathan Traviesa
Kyle Bravo
Lee Deigaard
Megan Roniger
Ryn Wilson
Stephanie Patton
The Front • 4100 St. Claude Avenue • New Orleans, LA 70117 • Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm
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