Art Metropole

Apr. - 28 May 2011

Ryan Foerster: One-Two-Three-Four

Artist

Ryan Foerster

Foerster’s project ‘one-two-three-four’ connects printing plates, photographs and various found objects through an autobiographical narrative. The works on display have been salvaged from the tools, shops and processes utilized in the production of other materials. Some have been collected from direct actions Foerster made – producing zines with commercial printing plates, using photographic paper to clean a processor at a darkroom and others like slag taken from Sudbury mines after being separated from rocks to make nickel.

Ryan Foerster was born in Newmarket Canada and currently lives between there and New York. He’s previously had solo exhibitions at Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva 2010, Printed Matter, NY, 2009, Swiss Institute, NY, 2008 and White Columns, NY, 2007. He will be included in the upcoming exhibition Catalogue de l’Exposition / Catalogue of the Exhibition at Triple V in Paris organized by Bob Nickas.

Ryan Foerster was born in Newmarket Canada and currently lives between there and New York. He’s previously had solo exhibitions at Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva 2010, Printed Matter, NY, 2009, Swiss Institute, NY, 2008 and White Columns, NY, 2007. He will be included in the upcoming exhibition Catalogue de l’Exposition / Catalogue of the Exhibition at Triple V in Paris organized by Bob Nickas.

Images

1: Opening night bench sitters.
2: Hand made.
3: Art Metropole fills with guests on opening night.
4: Opening night readers.
5: Board member Janis Demkiw explores Ryan's zines.
6: Leaning bench.
7: Slag.
8: Fruit & vegetables.
9: A display of Ryan Foerster's zines, available for sale.
10: Fruit and vegetables on a bench constructed from wood around Art Metropole's neighborhood, and printer's plates.
11: Ryan Foerster converses with Luis Jacob's about the slag installation.
12: Ryan Foerster and friend Daniel Innes (of Pearl Harbor Gift Shop and Tattooing) talk as Yan Wu (Programming Director at Gendai Gallery) and Sarah Robayo Sheridan (Director of Exhibitions and Publications at Mercer Union), enters Art Metropole.
13: Leaning bench, slag, fruits & vegetables.
14: Benches and printer's plates installed with slag fruit & vegetables in the entrance way at Art Metropole.
15: Ryan Foerster: One-Two-Three-Four.
16: Ryan Foerster: One-Two-Three-Four.
17: Ryan Foerster: One-Two-Three-Four.
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