Jim Ricks

Jim Ricks (born 1973) is a US-born Irish conceptual artist, writer and curator.[1] He has exhibited throughout Ireland and internationally, including a number of public art projects.

Jim Ricks
Born1973 (age 46–47)
San Francisco, California, United States
NationalityUS, Irish
Alma materNational University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Burren College of Art, Ireland
California College of the Arts (San Francisco)
Known forPoulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen, In Search of the Truth, Carpet Bombing
Websitejimricks.info

Early life and education

Jim Ricks was born in 1973 in San Francisco, California[2][3]. He started painting graffiti in the early 1990's[4]. In 2002, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from California College of the Arts (CCA). In 2007, Ricks completed his Master of Fine Arts degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway and Burren College of Art programme.[5][6][7][8]

Career
Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen, Co. Clare, Ireland, 2011
Drone imagery incorporated into the traditional method of Afghan carpet making.
En Busca de la Verdad - Chimalhuacan

Ricks "was a key participant in" Frieze Projects’ COPYSTAND: Autonomous Manufacturing Zone at the Frieze Art Fair in London, 2009.[9][10] He created the touring public artwork, the Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen in 2010[11][12] and In Search of the Truth (the Truth Booth) in 2011.[13] Since 2010 "Jim Ricks has developed the method of synchro-materialism as a means to consider the territory where art meets capitalism", utilizing this methodology in exhibition, performance and print.[14][15] In 2015 he returned to Afghanistan to make Carpet Bombing, a large traditional textile piece featuring imagery of military drones – an updated version of Afghan's war rugs.[16] Ricks has had solo shows in the United States, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Mexico.

Public projects
  • Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen,[11] a large inflatable sculpture designed for people to interact with and play on.[8] This artwork originally traveled to venues around the Aughty Region of county Galway in June 2011 and was created with funding from the Galway County Council.[17][18] The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen is a twice-the-size replica of a 6,000-year-old megalithic portal tomb, the Poulnabrone Dolmen situated in the Burren, Co. Clare. Cristin Leach, art critic for The Sunday Times wrote: "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."[19] The piece was shown alongside Jeremy Deller's Sacrilege in Belfast and was featured in the Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition Futures 12 both in 2012.[5][20][6][17]
  • Ricks is working on the long-term and global public art project In Search of the Truth (En Busca de la Verdad). Also known as "The Truth Booth" it is in collaboration with Ryan Alexiev, Hank Willis Thomas, and more recently with Will Sylvester, and Jorge Sanchez, all members of Cause Collective.[21][22] The New York Times writes: "The “Truth Booth,” [is] a roving, inflatable creation by a group of artists calling itself the Cause Collective. The booth, in the shape of a cartoon word bubble with "TRUTH" in bold letters on its side, serves as a video confessional. Visitors are asked to sit inside and finish the politically and metaphysically loaded sentence that begins, "The truth is …"".[23] To date, the project has travelled Ireland, Afghanistan, South Africa, Australia, the United States, and Mexico. It embarked on a world tour at the Galway Arts Festival, Ireland in 2011. Throughout this long-term project the video footage is compiled and edited into a video artwork. To expand and engage with audiences, the movements of "The Truth Booth" and sample responses are tracked, edited, and categorized on a website. Ultimately, the goal of this project is to try to capture as many definitions, confessions and thoughts on The Truth as possible, creating a diverse ‘portrait’ of people across the globe.[18][24][25] In Search of the Truth was exhibited as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in September of 2019.[26][27]

Museum projects

Sleepwalkers (2012–15) at Hugh Lane Gallery curated by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisley was a two-year project in which six artists were invited to use the museum's resources, reveal their artistic process, and to collaborate with each other in this "unusual experiment in exhibition production".[30] This process culminated in each artist developing a solo exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery and a publication.[31] Ricks's contributions included The most important plinth in Ireland a tribute to Richard Hamilton (artist); an unauthorized, curated, paid, open call exhibition titled: Future Perfect, with 27 artists participating; his solo show: Bubblewrap Game: Hugh Lane, October 2013 – February 2014;[32] and: Everything must go now: One day of tastes, sights, and sounds, which included James Barry, January 2014

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2010 – Synchromaterialism, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland[14][33]
  • 2013–2014 – Bubble Wrap Game: The Hugh Lane, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland[8][34]
  • 2015 – Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism IV) Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands[15]
  • 2016–2017 – Centro de Ontología Nacional, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2018 – Museo Ambulante Sebastián, Mexico City, Mexico[35]
  • 2020 – Así Luce la Democracia | This is What Democracy Looks Like, Galeria Daniela Elbahara, Mexico City, Mexico[36][37]

Awards

Bibliography
  • de Búrca, Ella, Michaële Cutaya, Jim Ricks. IRLDADA: 201916. Mexico City: Black Crown Press, 2019. ISBN 9780578546940 [40]
  • Ricks, Jim. Alien Invader Super Baby (Synchromaterialism VI). Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2018. ISBN 9789491677755
  • Packer, Matt, Declan Long, and Jim Ricks. "Here Comes The Summer", Derry: Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, 2017.
  • Bossan, Enrico. 2016 an image of Ireland : contemporary artists from Ireland. Crocetta del Montello: Antiga edizioni, 2016. ISBN 9788899657185
  • Edited by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisley. Sleepwalkers. Dublin: Hugh Lane Gallery and Ridinghouse, 2015. ISBN 9781905464982

See also

References
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  3. "Ricks takes art to a new form". The Clare Champion. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  4. Chen, Wei-Huan. "Graffiti warfare". Journal & Courier. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
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  9. Mahoney, Donald (23 October 2009). "The Art of Imitation". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  10. Syjuco, Stephanie (8 November 2009). "Frieze-ing in London (pt 2): postface". SFMOMA. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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  12. "Bouncy megalith comes to the Aughtys". The Clare Champion. 19 August 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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  15. "ALIEN INVADER SUPER BABY (SYNCHROMATERIALISM IV)". Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  16. Salomone, Andrew (23 August 2016). "This Handmade Rug Is a Drone Survival Guide". The Creators Project. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  17. Higgins, Charlotte (2 May 2012). "Glaswegian shoes come off for bouncy Stonehenge". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  18. Paul, Laster (12 August 2014). "Art Basel Visitors Tell All in Hank Willis Thomas' 'Truth Booth'". The Observer. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  19. Leach, Cristín (5 June 2011). "Let's hear it for the still, beating heart of our artistic landscape". The Sunday Times.
  20. "Bouncy Tomb Tours Ireland". Make. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  21. http://www.causecollective.com/projects/httpwww-insearchofthetruth-net/
  22. http://insearchofthetruth.net/
  23. Randy Kennedy. Political Art in a Fractious Election Year "The New York Times", 17 July 2016
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  25. "In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)". Galway International Arts Festival. 24 July 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  26. "Beat's top picks for the 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival". Beat Magazine. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  27. "Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019". Broadsheet. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  28. Quinn, Andrew (6 May 2016). "Abercorn Road Mural Unveiled". Derry Journal. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  29. "Jim Ricks (Estados Unidos/Irlanda/México)". LASA.
  30. "Sleepwalkers: Production as Process". Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  31. Edited by Dempsey, Michael, and Logan Sisley. ‘’Sleepwalkers’’. Dublin: Hugh Lane Gallery and Ridinghouse, 2015. ISBN 9781905464982
  32. Dunne, Aidan (3 March 2015). "Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feeds". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  33. "Ricks takes art to a new form". The Clare Champion. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  34. Dunne, Aidan. "Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feeds". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  35. "Jim Ricks reinterpreta a Sebastián" (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  36. "Mexico City roundup - Features - art-agenda". www.art-agenda.com. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  37. "Así luce la democracia: la exposición de Jim Ricks en la galería Daniela Elbahara". revistacodigo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  38. "Past Exhibitions". Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  39. "Fifth Edition of Ghetto Biennale Announces Participating Artists". Artforum. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  40. Ricks, Jim; Cutaya, Michaële; Búrca, Ella de (21 September 2019). Irldada: 201916. Black Crown Press. ISBN 9780578546940.
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