Jim Ricks | |
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Born | San Francisco, California, United States |
Nationality | United States, Ireland |
Alma mater |
California College of the Arts, National University of Ireland, Galway Burren College of Art |
Known for | Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen, In Search of the Truth, Carpet Bombing |
Website |
jimricks |
Jim Ricks is an American–born Irish conceptual artist, writer, and curator. He has exhibited throughout Ireland and internationally, including a number of public art projects. [1] [2]
Ricks was born in San Francisco, California. [3] He started painting graffiti in the early 1990s. [4] He studied photography and graduated from the California College of the Arts (2002), and received a Masters degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Burren College of Art programme (2007). [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Ricks's work utilises appropriation, institutional critique, politics, and humour. [3] [11] He has had solo shows in the United States, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Mexico. [12]
Ricks was director of 126 Artist-run Gallery from 2007 to 2009, curating a number of shows and organizing exchanges with other artist-run spaces. [13] With Stephanie Syjuco, he created knock-offs of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London, 2009. [14] [15]
In an ongoing body of work, "Jim Ricks has developed the method of synchro-materialism as a means to consider the territory where art meets capitalism", and he has used this methodology in exhibition, performance, and print since 2010. [16] [17] In 2015 he travelled to Afghanistan to make Carpet Bombing, a large traditionally made carpet featuring imagery of military drones – an updated version of Afghan's war rugs. [18] [19] He participated in the 2017 Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. [20]
The piece was also shown alongside Jeremy Deller's 2012 inflatable Stonehenge, Sacrilege, in Belfast, [23] [25] and was featured in the Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition Futures 12. [5] [26] [6]"We need to start thinking more creatively about public art. Jim Ricks has. Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen... is a commentary on our past, our present, the concept of “brand Ireland” and the very idea of public art; and everyone is invited to bounce. A temporary, movable, witty, interactive, contemporary public artwork we are all invited to play with? [Alice] Maher has endorsed it as “the best public art piece...ever”. She might just be right." [24]
Ricks was invited to participate in a 2 year project called Sleepwalkers (2012–15) at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. He was one of six artists invited to use the museum's resources, in an "unusual experiment in exhibition production". [38] Ricks's contributions included a tribute to Richard Hamilton (artist), unauthorized exhibitions, his solo show: Bubblewrap Game: Hugh Lane, 2013 – 14, and a closing event which included James Barry in 2014. [39] [40] Aidan Dunne of the Irish Times describes Ricks's participation as a "curatorial process of selection and validation, making a museum within the museum comprising works from the real collection, artworks borrowed from elsewhere, non-art objects from flea markets and a commissioned copy of an Ed Ruscha painting." [11]
He exhibited at the Trotsky Museum in Mexico City in 2022.
Jim Ricks | |
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Born | San Francisco, California, United States |
Nationality | United States, Ireland |
Alma mater |
California College of the Arts, National University of Ireland, Galway Burren College of Art |
Known for | Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen, In Search of the Truth, Carpet Bombing |
Website |
jimricks |
Jim Ricks is an American–born Irish conceptual artist, writer, and curator. He has exhibited throughout Ireland and internationally, including a number of public art projects. [1] [2]
Ricks was born in San Francisco, California. [3] He started painting graffiti in the early 1990s. [4] He studied photography and graduated from the California College of the Arts (2002), and received a Masters degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Burren College of Art programme (2007). [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Ricks's work utilises appropriation, institutional critique, politics, and humour. [3] [11] He has had solo shows in the United States, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Mexico. [12]
Ricks was director of 126 Artist-run Gallery from 2007 to 2009, curating a number of shows and organizing exchanges with other artist-run spaces. [13] With Stephanie Syjuco, he created knock-offs of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London, 2009. [14] [15]
In an ongoing body of work, "Jim Ricks has developed the method of synchro-materialism as a means to consider the territory where art meets capitalism", and he has used this methodology in exhibition, performance, and print since 2010. [16] [17] In 2015 he travelled to Afghanistan to make Carpet Bombing, a large traditionally made carpet featuring imagery of military drones – an updated version of Afghan's war rugs. [18] [19] He participated in the 2017 Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. [20]
The piece was also shown alongside Jeremy Deller's 2012 inflatable Stonehenge, Sacrilege, in Belfast, [23] [25] and was featured in the Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition Futures 12. [5] [26] [6]"We need to start thinking more creatively about public art. Jim Ricks has. Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen... is a commentary on our past, our present, the concept of “brand Ireland” and the very idea of public art; and everyone is invited to bounce. A temporary, movable, witty, interactive, contemporary public artwork we are all invited to play with? [Alice] Maher has endorsed it as “the best public art piece...ever”. She might just be right." [24]
Ricks was invited to participate in a 2 year project called Sleepwalkers (2012–15) at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. He was one of six artists invited to use the museum's resources, in an "unusual experiment in exhibition production". [38] Ricks's contributions included a tribute to Richard Hamilton (artist), unauthorized exhibitions, his solo show: Bubblewrap Game: Hugh Lane, 2013 – 14, and a closing event which included James Barry in 2014. [39] [40] Aidan Dunne of the Irish Times describes Ricks's participation as a "curatorial process of selection and validation, making a museum within the museum comprising works from the real collection, artworks borrowed from elsewhere, non-art objects from flea markets and a commissioned copy of an Ed Ruscha painting." [11]
He exhibited at the Trotsky Museum in Mexico City in 2022.