Frustration and communication, Images and Inefficiency, Hopelessness and the process by which we create; only a few of the messages conveyed in the vast array of work shoveled out by Brian Rideout. In his very first Toronto solo exhibition, Rideout is on the attack, attempting the impossible and making it look effortless. Discovering and conveying some very basic truths about humanity, himself, and the things one does and contributes to the world. Rideout sees his paintings as still lifes, as studies, investigating the ideas and concepts that surround everyday life and the thought provoking/wholly changing realizations and understandings one has about the function of humanity. Contextualizing his efforts to evoke specific meaning that at first glance seems devoid and juvenile in its outright caddy playfulness, Rideout intends his work to have an aggressive and fearless accessibility that's entry point will encourage the viewer to re-play and re-observe.
Rideout's eye is fixed and it sees a living apocalypse, over-run by the pop and the consumable, never able to escape a history written by people adored for being dead or dying. Honesty is his tool for representation and without it Rideout feels lost, this is how he survives amongst the ocean of over-stimuli that is the landscape of an excessive and superfluous new world.
Mixing sculpture, painting, and drawing, Brian Rideout's new body of work speaks specifically to his frustration with the structures that have recently established a contemporary history of painting and visual culture - the now inefficient nature of communicating with images. Settling his work within the context of pop culture and the everyday, Rideout's reading of his productions is suggestive in nature, like trying to picture the two worlds of boxing and painting having a fling (a straight-up unabashed fling) that's working and struggling to create 'sport' and coming out easily interpreted as frivolous and gratuitous . Much like seeing violence in sports, like boxing, and relating it to the lack of apparent reason, cause, or justification of art making. The desire to create new meaning in a world seemingly devoid of it is Rideout's pathos.
Brian Rideout is a New Jersey born, Canadian resident that graduated from Georgian College in 2007 with a focus in drawing and painting. Soon after moving to Toronto in the summer of 2008 he was the recipient of the prize for best painter at the Toronto Out Door Art Exhibition.
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52McCual is the PLACE-TO-BE
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BRIAN RIDEOUT - http://www.archieandrewsftw.com
PRIMARY COLORS - http://www.myspace.com/primarycolorspresents
DFMH - http://pfrcollective.blogspot.com/
Rideout's eye is fixed and it sees a living apocalypse, over-run by the pop and the consumable, never able to escape a history written by people adored for being dead or dying. Honesty is his tool for representation and without it Rideout feels lost, this is how he survives amongst the ocean of over-stimuli that is the landscape of an excessive and superfluous new world.
Mixing sculpture, painting, and drawing, Brian Rideout's new body of work speaks specifically to his frustration with the structures that have recently established a contemporary history of painting and visual culture - the now inefficient nature of communicating with images. Settling his work within the context of pop culture and the everyday, Rideout's reading of his productions is suggestive in nature, like trying to picture the two worlds of boxing and painting having a fling (a straight-up unabashed fling) that's working and struggling to create 'sport' and coming out easily interpreted as frivolous and gratuitous . Much like seeing violence in sports, like boxing, and relating it to the lack of apparent reason, cause, or justification of art making. The desire to create new meaning in a world seemingly devoid of it is Rideout's pathos.
Brian Rideout is a New Jersey born, Canadian resident that graduated from Georgian College in 2007 with a focus in drawing and painting. Soon after moving to Toronto in the summer of 2008 he was the recipient of the prize for best painter at the Toronto Out Door Art Exhibition.
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52McCual is the PLACE-TO-BE
http://52mccaul.wordpress.com
http://www.wellandgood.ca
BRIAN RIDEOUT - http://www.archieandrewsftw.com
PRIMARY COLORS - http://www.myspace.com/primarycolorspresents
DFMH - http://pfrcollective.blogspot.com/