JOHN RITTER – WORKED UP
2011-09-12Ritter’s politically and emotionally charged works utilize the vernacular of the information age to create vibrant images of politics, celebrity, crime, and catastrophe.
By exposing the inherent anxiety of today’s world, these subversive works fashion unseen relationships and contexts through humor and clever juxtaposition. Ritter’s works are simultaneously complex and accessible, offering new political as well as artistic
possibilities.
Ritter studies and sources potential subjects from found photographs then manufactures compositional elements by layering and combining his own original photography to make a fabricated context in which the subject matter exists. His work exists in its purest form, as a digital configuration, that has been appropriated, reconfigured and recycled into a form that is humanly expressive, provocative and consumable.
Opposite – Mistress’s Daughter, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2011
Lyons Wier Gallery Project Space
175 7th Ave
New York
NY 10011
