Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever
Ryan Trecartin
Past Exhibition
Mar 25 – May 23 2010
Ryan Trecartin, Still from Roamie View: History Enhancement (Re’Search Wait’S), 2009–2010. HD Video, 28 min. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York.
- SUPPORT SPONSOR
The Drake Hotel
- SUPPORT DONORS
Bruce Bailey Paul E. Bain & Isa Spalding Michael Cooper Shanitha Kachan & Gerald Sheff Steven & Lynda Latner Laura Rapp & Jay Smith
- CURATORS
Helena Reckitt And Jon Davies
Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever marks the first Canadian solo exhibition by the rising American artist with a sprawling seven-piece video suite amalgamating his ambitious new four-part series, Re’Search Wait’S, as well as his acclaimed video triptych Trill-ogy Comp (2009).
Destabilizing and amazing his audiences, Trecartin’s hyperactive, collaborative performance and video art practice embraces an aesthetic of chaotic excess to realize his heady explorations of consumer culture and fractured identity in the digital age. With an insomniac energy and frenetic editing, Trecartin choreographs a cracked parallel universe only slightly more surreal than the one we actually inhabit.
His most ambitious exhibition to date, Trecartin’s frenzied riffs on our increasingly virtual world in Any Ever will be staged inside a network of "containers" in The Power Plant’s largest gallery.
Ryan Trecartin, Roamie View: History Enhancement (Re’Search Wait’S), 2009–2010. HD Video, 28 min. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo: Steve Payne.
Ryan Trecartin, Ready (Re’Search Wait’S), 2009–2010. HD Video, 27 min. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo: Steve Payne.
Ryan Trecartin, Sibling Topics (Section A), 2009. HD Video, 52 min. Goetz Collection, Munich. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo: Steve Payne.
Ryan Trecartin, The Re’Search (Re’Search Wait’S), 2009–2010. HD Video, 40 min. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo: Steve Payne.
Ryan Trecartin, P.opular S.ky (section ish), 2009 HD Video, 40 min. Promised gift of Pamela and Richard Kramlich to the New Art Trust to benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo: Steve Payne.
Ryan Trecartin, K-Corea INC. K (Section A), 2009 HD Video, 33 min. Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo: Steve Payne.
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About the Artist
Ryan Trecartin
Ryan Trecartin was born in Webster, Texas, in 1981 and was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design.