Ryder Ripps
Ryder Ripps | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | July 7, 1986
Alma mater | The New School |
Notable work | Art Whore, Ho, Barbara Lee |
Style | |
Father | Rodney Ripps |
Website | ryder-ripps |
Ryder Ripps (born July 7, 1986) is a conceptual artist, programmer, and creative director.[1][2]
Early life and education
Ryder Ripps is the son of Rodney Ripps and Helene Verin. He studied at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Liberal Arts in New York City.[2]
Career
Commercial work
Ripps is the creative director of OKFocus, a digital marketing and design agency and has developed content for musicians Kanye West, Travis Scott, Grimes, Drake, Diplo, M.I.A., Bruno Mars, and Mike Will Made It; fashion lines Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Kenzo, Stone Island, and FUCT;[citation needed] and corporate brands Nike, and Red Bull.[2] He has created several websites, including Internet Archeology, Dump.fm, and VFiles.[3][4][2] In 2013, Ripps created the branding for Soylent, an open source meal replacement drink.[5] In 2015 he co-produced 2 songs on Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz.[6] In 2018, Ripps began working with Kanye West as a part of DONDA. [7][8][9] Together, Ripps and West worked as creative directors for the first annual Pornhub awards in Los Angeles.[10][11]
Art work
Ripps's fine art practice is described as "art that uses online avenues to expose how social media can amplify narcissism and fear."[12]
In a 2014 piece titled ART WHORE the Ace Hotel in New York asked Ripps to be an artist-in-residence for 1 night.[13] With a $50 budget, Ripps hired 2 “sensual masseuses” from Craigslist to make work in a hotel room, with Ripps comparing this to his own exploitation as an artist.[9] The project sparked outcry, principally online, "for what they saw as blatant exploitation of women in the sex industry" even though one of the erotic masseuses was male.[14][15] Critic Paddy Johnson declared it one of the most offensive exhibitions of the year and Rhizome described it as "unthinking, unethical, and dull", but also that "Ripps acted in a way that was ethically unsound: It reinforced and did not interrogate inequitable power relationships."[16][17][18] In an interview, Ripps admits he regretted the title he chose.[15]
Ripps' first solo exhibition took place in January 2015 at Postmasters Gallery in New York City, titled Ho. It featured large-scale oil painted portraits of digitally manipulated images from the Instagram account of model Adrianne Ho.[12][19] The show "engages with the ways in which we portray women, tapping into the long history of the manipulation of images in the name of sex and advertisement."[19] However, reception was varied, with one critic writing: "his series is a visceral, knee-jerk way of removing and distorting a vision of female empowerment", and also notes the title of the show is a double entendre, as "ho" is slang for prostitute.[20][21]
In 2016, Ripps exhibited Barbara Lee, an ode to the representative in Congress featuring 50,000 images downloaded from the internet covering a maquette of the Twin Towers at Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.[22][23]
In May 2017, Ripps premiered a small installation at the Venice Biennale titled Diventare Schiavo (Become A Slave) and featuring VR works, where the public was invited to virtually pack boxes.[24][25] One writer remarked: "Here, laborious task becomes spectacle, while critiquing the socio-economic hierarchies of such technology."[26]
In 2018, Ripps, in collaboration with photographer Maggie West, exhibited Pornhub Nation, a large interactive installation sponsored by Pornhub. The exhibition depicts a future history of the porn site's own government. It provided parodied solutions to the topics of climate change, military occupation, governmental surveillance, and space exploration.[27][28]
Solo Exhibitions
- 2015 - Ho, Postmasters, New York
- 2015 - Alone Together, Red Bull Studios, New York[29]
- 2016 - Barbara Lee, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
- 2017 - Diventare Schiavo (Become A Slave), Zuecca Projects, Venice Italy
See also
References
- ^ Chen, Adrian (July 8, 2014). "Ryder Ripps: An Artist of the Internet". The New York Times. p. E6. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Ryder Ripps: An Artist of the Internet". The New York Times.
- ^ "Internet Archaeology: Behold the Most Hilarious Abandoned Websites". WIRED.
- ^ "Rhizome - Introducing: dump.fm". rhizome.org.
- ^ "Soylent". www.thedieline.com. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
- ^ "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz Credits".
- ^ "Meet OkFocus, the PR Stuntmen Behind the Fake Kanye West Site WhoDat.Biz". Observer. March 28, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ "Collaborators". PAPER. September 24, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ a b Specter, Emma (September 18, 2018). "Who Is Ryder Ripps, Conceptual Artist and Kanye's DM Buddy?". Garage. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ Tiffany, Kaitlyn (September 14, 2018). "Pornhub wants to be a lifestyle brand". Vox. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ EDT, Emily Zogbi On 9/7/18 at 11:00 AM (September 7, 2018). "Kanye West premieres new song at Pornhub Awards". Newsweek. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Freeman, Nate. "The Trial of Ryder Ripps: An Embattled Artist on Haters, Angry Muses, and Threats". Observer.
- ^ Dazed (November 12, 2014). "Ryder Ripps' 'ART WHORE' stirs controversy in art world". Dazed. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ "The Trial of Ryder Ripps: An Embattled Artist on Haters, Angry Muses, and Threats". Observer. January 23, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ a b Vartanian, Hrag (November 15, 2014). "50 Shades of Art Whoredom". Hyperallergic. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ Kimball, Whitney (November 11, 2014). "Ryder Ripps's "ART WHORE" In the Running For Most Offensive Project of 2014". Art F City. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ Dazed (November 12, 2014). "Ryder Ripps' 'ART WHORE' stirs controversy in art world". Dazed. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ "Bodies on the Line". Rhizome. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ a b Dafoe, Taylor (March 5, 2015). "RYDER RIPPS Ho". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ Song, Sandra. "Petty Man Builds Art Career By Shitting on Fitness Star Adrianne Ho". Culture. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ "ho - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-ryder-ripps-takes-on-our-clickbait-culture-with-50-000-tiny-images
- ^ http://steveturner.la/exhibition/ryder-ripps#1
- ^ Barnes, Freire (June 9, 2017). "Things Get Interactive at This year's Venice Biennale". The Culture Trip.
- ^ Dakinah, Keven (May 17, 2017). "Ryder Ripps Turns Instagram into Virtual Reality". iD Vice.
- ^ Barnes, Freire. "Things Get Interactive at This Year's Venice Biennale". Culture Trip. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ "Artists Ryder Ripps and Maggie West Teamed Up With Pornhub to Create an Interactive Sci-Fi Installation Set in 2069". artnet News. June 14, 2018. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ "Pornhub announces Pornhub Nation, a new, uh, 'interactive art' exhibit". www.yahoo.com. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ "Alone Together". 21st Century Digital Art. Retrieved November 26, 2020.