RJP Nomadic Gallery presents Cr(e)ate Exhibition Opening/Performance on Second Saturday, September 8th, 6-9 p.m.
Lone Star Studios, 107 Lone Star Blvd, San Antonio, TX
”Artists aren’t engineers,” the museum manager observed ruefully.
”Artists oughta be shot,” a disgruntled trucker said.
~ The New York Times article, 1988
Lone Star Studios and the Lullwood Group present Cr(e)ate. The RJP Nomadic Gallery continues to highlight functional design aesthetics and arts practice as highly influenced by existing infrastructures through a labor based performance and installation. Repurposing the protective shell of the art crate into fine art object through exhibition offers a metaphorical unpacking of typically formal objects, revealing them as purveyors of history and mystery. Arriving at 6 p.m. on Saturday night the RJP Nomadic Gallery will unload the crates from a 40’ Ryder truck and begin the installation in Lone Star Studios.
The RJP 2.0 Gallery Kit was first displayed as an installation/performance entitled “UNPACKING ACCESS” as a participating organization in the Texas Biennial 2011 in Austin, Texas.
RJP 2.0 Gallery Kit
Utilizing our surrounding, existing infrastructures, (shipping systems, free website modules, home depot, rental trucks, etc…) RJP offers engineered, multi-use components as a complete “gallery kit.” Accessible and economically viable, the “kit” offers the potential to sustainably expand outreach and community engagement.
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
Special thanks to Blake Morris and Tom Curry for graciously hosting the RJP nomadic gallery in conjunction with the Gallery Night Artwalk in Alpine Texas. A very diverse show included the works of B. C. Gilbert, Jeff Wheeler, Chad Plunket, Todd DeVriese, Lauren Bolden, Ryder Richards, Jonathan Whitfill, and Piotr Chizinski.
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.
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.
Oct. 23rd, 2009
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Alpine Gallery
