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TRIUMVERATE 2 George Raggett, Boo Ritson and John Pearson Kianga Ford in the Project Room Opening: Saturday April 2, 7-10pm Exhibitions Runs: April 2 – April 30, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Featuring: George Raggett, Boo Ritson and John Pearson
To curate the TRIUMVIRATE series Raid invites one artist to participate in the project. That artist then invites a second, Raid Projects selects a third, and the trio then generates an exhibition 'in conversation’ with one another. Because the series is intended to construct a framework for creative exchange, 'in conversation’ may mean that the artists actively collaborate, that they explore similar aesthetic and theoretical terrain, or simply that they respect and admire each others diverse practices. For the same reason the resulting exhibitions may feature collaborative, complementary or individual projects, but the results are always – as with TRIUMVIRATE #1 (click) featuring Meg Cranston, Kristi Lippire and Matt Wardell (February 2005) - rich and unexpected. With TRIUMVIRATE #2 Raid is proud to present works by George Raggett, Boo Ritson and John Pearson. Recently GEORGE RAGGETT'S new works have been based on current political/socio-economic events and they are related by a desire to stab at a mutual - humanizing - connection in the moment. Born from this desperation 'Tsunami' is an intimately scaled cardboard structure that, while it may exude familiarity and playfulness, also boils with energy created by its connection to the horrifying tragedy in Asia. Raggett's solo exhibitions include The Happy Lion Gallery, LA, 2005 and the UCLA Hammer Museum, LA, 2004. Group exhibitions include White Columns, NYC; Acme Gallery, LA and Cirrus Gallery, LA. BOO RITSON is currently completing her MA at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Her recent group exhibitions include Network, a show of Dutch and American artists at De Parel, Amsterdam (2004); nTOPIA 1 at Art & Idea, Mexico City (2004); Halbes Haus at the Three Colts Gallery, London and Notably at the PumpHouse Gallery, London. JOHN PEARSON'S photographs and videos exercise the activity of vision. What is optical becomes physical through the idiosyncrasy of perception. For the project included in TRIUMVIRATE #2 Pearson investigates the physicality of light and how it governs interpretation of the landscape by drawing from and onto views that are framed by a window, tunnel, television, postcard, and/or the lens of a camera obscura. Pearson has a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and he has shown most recently in Brooklyn, Chicago and Los Angeles. 
Showing concurrently in Raid's North Gallery KIANGA FORD works with
sound, narrative, and environment to create improvisational and
site-specific story projects that highlight the psycho-physical
dimensions of social identity formation. Engaging the sensations of
belonging and immersion, her audio-textual installations engage the
viewer in a participatory exploration of the limits between individual
and collective, intimate and public, given and contingent, categorical
and particular. Her work has been shown in venues including Track 16,
the California African-American Museum, and Occidental College. She
has lectured about the work at MIT, SFAI, NYU, and Hamilton College.
Ford received her MFA from UCLA in 2003 and is a doctoral candidate in
the History of Consciousness program at UCSC, where she is completing a
dissertation on articulations of race and identity in contemporary
exhibition.
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