1. Ryan Trecartin

2. About:
Ryan Trecartin grew up in Webster, Texas with his mother and father (a teacher and a steel worker).
From an early age Ryan showed signs of being highly creative in school he would create sets and costumes as well as participating in dances and performances.
In 2000 Trecartin enrolled in Rhode Island School of Design which in 2016 was ranked by the QS World University Rankings as the 3rd best institution for the study and practice of Art & Design.
In 2004 Ryan graduated with a BFA from the school.
The school runs classes in many area of creative practice from traditional creative forms to landscape architecture, metalsmithing, and glass.
This wide range of creative practices Trecartin would have been exposed to could have influenced his diverse practice in the modern day.
Trecartin’s home state
Webster, Texas

3. Ryan Trecartin is currently based in LA
Trecartin has worked with Lizzie Fitch since 2000 as a creative partner and collaborator, she also attended Rhode Island School of Design and also graduated in 2004.
Together the two occupy and create work in ‘Fitch-Trecartin Studios’ a warehouse which acts as the base for the partnership.
Fitch and Trecartin have collaborated together since Rhode Island School of Design, they would experiment to create multifunctional sculptures or films that were created as film and simultaneously as a platform to present other artworks within.

4. “Contemporary art or artists alone have never been a main catalyst for me to want to make art. I’ve been more inspired by how language is used—in culture generally, whether in casual conversation or various forms of media—or by music, TV, dance, and movies…I never think about disentangling moments from my cumulative experience of culture that may have influenced me the most… it means more in its blended entirety than it does a series of key experiences or authors.”
Ryan Trecartin  
Regarding Warhol: sixty artists, fifty years. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press p. 204.

5. The Andrea Rosen Gallery has represented the two artists Trecartin and Fitch since 2012 and has recently run their first solo exhibition at the gallery (March-April 2016).
“The artists have transformed Andrea Rosen Gallery into a network of halls and chambers that plot a path for visitors through a sequence of new movies and ambient spaces.” Los Angeles–based writer Kevin McGarry in an introduction for the exhibition.

6. Images from the Andrea Rosen Gallery, Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin March 19 – April 20, 2016

7. Mango Lady (2006)
This sculpture was made in collaboration with Jesse Greenberg for Trecartins exhibition I Smell Pregnant. The dried mango figure squats facing the wall, this stance in itself is unusual let alone the material used by Trecartin.
This sculpture is used within this particular exhibition as a bridge between the audience and other works. Where the films presented are highly surreal by providing a tactile physical presence that relates in some way to surreal works, the transition into the more unusual works is made easier for the audience.

8. World Wall (2006)
This sculpture was created as a participatory piece, as he invited a group of people to help him to create a project designed around a loose plot as devised by Trecartin. Following theme with a number of works, this piece is theatrical both in a sense of its making through essentially a cast; but also as it explores texture shape and colour in ways reminiscent of theatre sets, depicting clearly many different elements combines into this one wall. The sculpture also appears to draw influences from Mardi Gras floats and celebration costume from New Orleans- a previous base to Trecartin.