Mona Lisa, 2014
oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)

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Drink, 2014
oil on canvas, 2 panels, 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm) each

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Gettin’ Ready, 2014
oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)

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Ho, installation view at Postmasters Gallery, New York

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Heater, 2014
oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)

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Hourglass, 2014
oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)

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Ho, installation view at Postmasters Gallery, New York

 

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Sippy, 2014
oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)

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SUP, 2014
oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches (183 x 183 cm)

all images courtesy the artist and Postmasters gallery, New York

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Ho is the title of the solo exhibition of RYDER RIPPS, a New-York based artist best known for his cheeky internet actions. Ho is also the last name of ADRIANNE HO, an instagram fashion model who gathers something like 320 k followers on the social media platform; an online presence and a number of fans that fascinate RIPPS since he transforms the self-portraits of ADRIANNE HO into large format oil paintings after having been digitally distorted.

The series of paintings currently shown at Postmasters gallery in New York consists of nine canvases that are classically hung on walls. The works which seem to be genuinely hand-painted demonstrate the artist’s interest in the identity and technology as well as the way they are represented and eventually branded.

To me, my renderings of her images are more real than her photos. Of course she’s a real person, but we’ve all turned ourselves into images. We’ve chosen how to mediate our own realities—this isn’t true only for her, this is true for almost everyone. Life now is a constant reflexive feedback loop of ego. You’re constantly being confronted with the reflection with yourself in a way that you weren’t before. Especially if you’re someone who’s notable online, your reality is your online presence. – RYDER RIPPS in conversation with ZACH SOKOL for Vice

Oscillating between truth and fiction, between painting and photography, between analog and digital, this appropriation of images is a weird homage to ADRIANNE HO and necessarily a fresh comment on how we all curate our own “realities” as he says it.

➝ Ho is on view at Postmasters gallery in New York till February 28, 2015

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