HSU’s Ira M. Taylor Memorial Gallery Gallery presents “Mercurial Imagination,” featuring the work of Ryder Jon Piotrs members Piotr Chizinski, Ryder Richards, Sue Anne Rische and Jonathan Whitfill. The work ranges from altered books and shredded text to gunpowder drawings and cast bomb forms. The work questions social class systems, the intangible form of knowledge, and violence in a modern world. The exhibition will take place from Oct 26-Nov 13, 2009. The gallery will host a closing reception featuring an artist talk and question/answer session on November 13, 5:00-6:30.
No. 3: What you do after No.2
Opening Reception: 6-10 PM Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Waypoint Gallery, Marfa, Texas
The Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery presents “No.3: What you do after No. 2“, an exhibit of contemporary Texas artists held in conjunction with the Waypoint Gallery in Marfa, Texas. The group show will feature new pieces questioning and commenting on the nature of a nomadic gallery, societal perceptions and personal identity. The artists work in a range of media including steel, ceramics, installation and painting. The nomadic gallery event will coincide with the Chinanti Open House weekend, October 9th and 10th, 2008. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, October 10th, 2008. During the opening reception guests will provide music. This event is free and open to the public.
“No.3: What you do after No. 2” will feature work by artists Piotr Chizinski, Mark Collup, B.C. Gilbert, Nathan Green, Anna Krachey, Cat Prose, Ryder Richards, Sue Anne Rische, Brian Wheeler, Jeffery Wheeler, Jonathan Whitfill and David Willburn. With installation work and outdoor pieces by Emily Bales, Shreepad Joglekar, Chad Plunkett, Nola Richards, Charlie Scala, Ian F. Thomas and Christopher Walnoha. Each artist has developed a method of assessing and refining their work that not only confronts, but also speaks of aesthetics and unique presentation. Several of the artists display a tongue in cheek humor while commenting on grave issues that face our world, while others focus their energy on process and engage the complexities of material and mind.
Ryder Jon Piotrs (RJP) is a collaborative art group celebrating our third year of exhibits by returning to Marfa, the site of our first nomadic exhibition. The gallery is comprised of a 24 foot Ryder moving truck converted into a sophisticated gallery space complete with track lighting. The Waypoint Gallery generously offered space to the RJP Nomadic Gallery for this year’s exhibition. Waypoint Gallery is located at 208 South Summer Street, Marfa, Texas.
For more information please call Ryder Richards at 806.790.5508or email ryderjonpiotrs@gmail.com
MOMENT’S NOTICE
Jan 28th, 2009
A Ryder Jon Piotrs exhibition held at the
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.
(LHUCA) 511 Ave K, Lubbock, Texas
Installation at LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
Ryder Jon Piotrs invite you to Moment’s Notice. Please join us tomorrow night, Thursday January 29th, 2009 to view the newest works of Piotr Chizinski, Ryder Richards, Sue Anne Rische and Jonathan Whitfill. Beginning at 6:30 PM and lasting until 8 PM the artists will be available at the Underwood Center to discuss their art and receive feedback from the attendees. The exhibition, Moment’s Notice, will be on display until Sunday.
Moment’s Notice resulted from the impromptu efforts of the Ryder Jon Piotrs collaborators to fill a vacancy in the Underwood Center’s main gallery. Ryder Jon Piotrs (RJP) is comprised of local Lubbock artists who have created a stir in the art world with the development of a Nomadic Truck Gallery. The gallery is a converted 24’ Ryder truck complete with white sheetrock panels and track lighting. Since it’s debut the mobile gallery has prompted several group exhibitions for the RJP members. Most recently the group had a show at the Nau Haus gallery in Houston and is currently planning their first juried ceramics exhibition to take place in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Innovation by Limitation exhibition at the NauHaus Gallery was held on December 6th, 2008. The exhibition showcased works by artists Ryder Richards, Piotr Chizinski, Jon Whitfill, and Sue Anne Rische.
Thanks to Dan Allison for all his help in putting this event on. Thanks to Nancy Keinholtz for dinner.
Thanks to the Faculty and Staff of the Southwest School of Art & Craft for making this event possible during the San Antonio contemporary art month.
NPR Interview :: KSTX 89.1 :: Texas Public Radio
by Celina Montoya Sound Clip from interview [ DWNLD ]
RJP in San Antonio
TEXT of interview:
July 18, 2008 · It’s a roaming gallery is based inside of a 24-foot long moving van. The idea came out of necessity for gallery creators, Ryder Richards, Piotr Chiszinski, and Jon Whitfill.
Among other things, they are artists based out of Lubbock, Texas, where the opportunity to display work is scarce. They needed to transport art and in the process discovered that the truck they use to move pieces could also serve as a space to display the work. They’ve been to Houston, Marfa, Wichita Falls and now San Antonio.
“What’s so great about it is we get to go experience audiences and venues that we don’t normally have a chance to do.”
That’s Ryder Richards, no relation to their sponsor Ryder Trucks, but he says it’s just worked out for them.
“We’re kind of artists who have a very practical nature and you know efficiency.”
Being practical they know the price of gas could change the nature of their work in the future when they plan to branch outside of Texas.
“We should be able to at some point just hop on a plane, take a bag of tools, land somewhere, construct our own gallery, leave it up for a week and tear it down and leave. And maybe even turn the pieces we tear down into another form of art and leave that there.”
The RyderJonPiotrs Nomadic Gallery will be on display at the Southwest School of Art and Craft through Saturday evening.
” I then met Ryder Richards and Jonathan Whitfill, who were doing some framing at Charles Adams Gallery. I saw more examples there of work by some of the better artists in the Underwood show, like Lahib Jaddo, and more or less everyone else I’d eventually meet that day. We headed next door for coffee with Piotr Chizinski, who is the third member of Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery.
You may have seen them in Marfa, Houston, San Angelo, or Wichita Falls,
in matching jumpsuits, manning installations of art hung in the backs
of rented Ryder trucks (the name is somewhat auspiciously
coincidental). The idea is a natural one for three young artists in
Lubbock. Rather than wait to be discovered in some random exhibition at
the local art center, they just keep hitting the road, taking their art
to the people. This could end up looking like nothing more than a
rehashed retro Fluxus/”Furthur” bus trip love-in, but the guys take the
lighting, placement and presentation seriously. They may be having a
good time, but they want it to look pro. It’s a great idea. I found
them energetic, smart and funny, and imagine they comprise a good
percentage of whatever cool-quotient is measurable in town.”
Thanks to Charles Adams and the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts for your generous monetary support and inclusion in this momentous occasion.
Thanks to Frank Reiblen and Strake Jesuit for inviting us to participate in the education of their students.
Thanks to Wayne Gilebert of G Gallery, Gus Kopriva of Redbud Gallery, and Dan Allison of Nau Haus Gallery for allowing us to participate in their evening’s festivities.
The Maiden Voyage exhibition in the Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery went to MARFA, TX for the Chinati Open House weekend Friday, October 5th, 2007. The Gallery was open through Sunday, October 7th, 2007. The exhibition, “Maiden Voyage”, showcased works by artists Ryder Richards, Piotr Chizinski, Jon Whitfill, Lauren Boldon, Ian Thomas and Sue Anne Rische.
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