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SELECTED WORKS BY Boo Ritson



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Boo Ritson

Blue Swimmer

2006
archival digital prints

94 x 75cm

Boo Ritson paints people, but not on canvas or on board – she literally coats people with paint. Presented as photographs, Ritson’s portraits are a double masquerade: her subjects coated in sticky disguise, and the documentary image a surrogate representation of the tangible painterly, sculptural, and performative qualities of work. By using photography Ritson capitalises on the associations of snapshot memory and filmic narrative, with each of her characters playing out readily recognisable stereotypes.

Bathed beneath the gooeyness of common household paint, Ritson’s subjects are transformed into athletes, cowgirls, and slot-jockeys. Highlighting the malleability of identity, Ritson’s impostors are rendered oddly totemic as the dripping contours of their wet ‘skins’ create a statuesque effect that’s equally stoically chiselled and insincerely plastic. Balancing between social masks and suffocating veneers, Ritson’s painted effigies stand as psychological animi; a sentiment epitomised in Godfather, where the eyes of her living model are exposed, giving a jarring humility to his hard man mafioso exterior.


Boo Ritson

Cowgirl

2006
archival digital prints

94 x 75cm


Boo Ritson

Girlfriend

2006
archival digital prints

94 x 75cm


Boo Ritson

Godfather

2006
archival digital prints

94 x 75cm


Boo Ritson

Slot Player

2006
archival digital prints

94 x 75cm



ARTIST INFORMATION




Boo Ritson's BIOGRAPHY



1969
Born in Surrey, England

Lives and works in Chesham


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


2007
Project space, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica

2006
Scarecrow, Group show in Metsovo, Greece
Stourhead
Ovada Gallery, Oxford
Cast, David Risley Gallery, London
Crivelli’s Nail. Chapter Gallery, Cardiff

2005
Accidental Death. David Risley Gallery, London
Hollow Salon 2005. Group show, Hollow Contemporary, London
Pleased to Meet You. Group show, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
Be Ready Heart; For Parting, New Endeavour, The Great Eastern Hotel, London
Clifford Chance. Postgraduate printmaking, Canary Wharf, London
Ad Hoc David Risley Gallery, London
MA/BA online catalogue, Art Fortnight. Selected by Catriona Warren, Art Review and Kay Saatchi
Let Me Hear Your Body Talk (Performance) Amsterdam
MA Show, Royal College of Art, London
Triumvirate II. Including George Raggett and John Pearson, Los Angeles
Ntopia 2, Los Angeles

2004
Ntopia1 (Art and Ideas) Mexico City
Pilot 1. Group show, Limehouse Town Hall, London
Halbes Haus, Three Colts gallery, London
Summer show. Royal College of Art, London
Crossroads-Installation. Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Stereo White. Royal College of Art, London
Network. Group show of Dutch and American artists at De Parel, Amsterdam
Lilo 8 Stag Night, Gasworks studios, London
Motorcity, Spitalfields, London

2003
Lilo 6 Returning Night. One night event at Gasworks studios
Viva Las Limehouse. Group show, Limehouse Arts Foundation, Bow
FlyPitch. Project based in Brixton Market
Magdalen Road Studios. Associate members show, Oxford
Pizza Prospects Drawing Prize. Finalists’ exhibition, Brick Lane, London
Re-Thinking Drawing. Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Surprise, Surprise ! a Southern Arts funded group exhibition touring six Buckinghamshire schools, then High Wycombe Museum
Notably. PumpHouse Gallery, Battersea Park, London
(selectors: Paul Hedge/ Hales Gallery, Catriona Warren/ Art Review, Martin Coomer/Time Out, and Susie Gray/ PumpHouse Gallery

 
 

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