See Gregory Ruppe’s Residency artist video
profile here.
Gregory Ruppe
Background: The Concept/OK: Art in Oklahoma exhibition
welcomes the public until February 16, 2013 at the new Tulsa Arts and
Humanities Council’s Hardesty Arts Center. Ruppe's residency project remains on display throughout the exhibition.
Residency Project Statement:
Things will never be the same
Commonplace among households, the piano
occupies a space of both reverence and burden. It is simultaneously cherished
and unwanted. Its historical presence is bound to a collective memory that
resists our willingness to discard it, though its typical inactivity reduces
the object to an impractical piece of furniture inhabiting dead space. Using
the piano as metaphor for greater social constructs, Things will never be
the same takes an indeterminate position to question our nostalgia for
the past, our relationship with the present, and the potential of activation
when relinquishing control to the unknown.
Biography:
Born in Houston, Texas, Gregory Ruppe received
an MFA in Sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2012. He utilizes a
broad range of mediums including castings, drawings, video, and sound to create
installations and project-based works. He has exhibited regionally and
internationally, most recently at Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas) and
Hiroshima Art Center (Japan). Ruppe is also a founding member of HOMECOMING!,
an experimental art collective based in Fort Worth, where he currently lives
and works.
Read more in this previous post
about Ruppe’s residency.
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