GROUP SHOW
a solo show by John Riepenhoff
June 18-30, 2010
Jackpot Gallery
825 E. Center St
Milwaukee, WI, 53212
Friday June 18
reception: 6-10pm
performance: 8pm
Sunday June 20
music: 7:30-9:30pm
by Best Friends Forever, Batten Revue, and The Not This Atrium
In Riepenhoff's first ever solo show and first exhibition at Jackpot Gallery
a cache of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and a performance will pay
homage to work of others that have influenced this artist's understanding of
the art world through their activity in the Milwaukee art scene. Riepenhoff
embodies the ethos of other artist's practices in an attempt to acknowledge
their influence on him and to find his own meaning through a more close
understanding of others' work. Resembling a group show yet made by one
person, this exhibition is an investigation into originality in the creation
process and the influences of a community on art-making.
Riepenhoff is a 2009 winner of the Mary Nohl Fellowship for Individual
Artists and is in the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial. His work has been written
about in the New York Times and Art Forum and he has exhibited
internationally including projects in the Tate Modern and Frieze Art
Fair(London); Gavin Brown's Enterprise and the Swiss Institute (New York);
Angstrom Gallery and Ooga Booga (Los Angeles); Tokyo 101 Art Fair (Tokyo);
Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne), Karma International (Zurich), Fredric
Snitzer Gallery (Miami); The Suburban (Oak Park); Milwaukee Art Museum, Dean
Jensen Gallery, and Small Space (Milwaukee) among others. In July of 2010 he
will be attending Summer Studio Residency at the Sullivan Galleries in
Chicago.
Thanks to the following artist's for inspiring elements of this show: James
Franklin, Katie Kraft, Nicholas Frank, Paul Stoelting, Peter Barrickman,
Santiago Cucullu, Sara Clendenning, Sarah Luther, Scott Reeder, Stephanie
Barber, Steve Wetzel, Tyson Reeder, and all artists who have worked with The
Green Gallery. Thank you.
more info email:
Martha Johnson jackpotgallery@aol.com