here's a few things coming up this month.
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| .1. ArtCrank (a poster party for bike people) will be happening this Thursday October 1 at the Cleaners At The Ace Hotel, located at 403 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, Oregon. All Posters are priced at $30 and ArtCrank will donate $5 from every poster sold to Bikes To Rwanda. |
| 2. The Papergirl Project PDX. Friday October 2 at Second Nature Gallery at 8th and East Burnside, Portland Oregon. |
| 3. True Self Group Exhibition Curated by Gary Baseman. Saturday October 24 at Jonathan LeVine Gallery 529 West 20th Street, 9E New York, New York 10011 |
| 4. For those not in portland, i have 20 editions of my artcrank poster available online for purchase: |
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"Totally Untrue" Signed and numbered 1 color Edition of 50 (20 available) 12"x18" $30 |
i don't update as much as i should. here's a few things.
if you want to follow the banality of my everyday life. i'm here.
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.tiny art. i'm one of the 240. Dime Dag 3 curated by Jordin Isip and Rodger Stevens 437 e. 9th Street NY,NY 10009
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we have new problems now. so, i made a second edition with a new color way. thanks to seizure palace for printing it. |
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"We're Totally Fucked" Print Second Edition Signed and numbered 2-color Edition of 100 18" X 24" $40 |
November Update---------------------------
I. Limited Edition Shirt Pre-order I'm getting this design printed in a week and if you want the shirt before x-mas (for yourself of a present) you better order now because I won't be able it print them again until way after the holidays The image will be printed gray on black shirts.
II. Ace Hotel T-Shirt Speaking of limited edition shirts, Ace Hotel Portland just printed my "Someone In Oregon Loves Me" design. Not sure if they will be available over the internet. I guess you just have to stay at the hotel to get one, or live in Portland.
III. BlackBerry Review My father called me recently and informed me that cnet.com used one of my paintings in a review for a new BlackBerry. Funny, because they didn't asked me. Shouldn't I get paid?! Ha ha. It's some little online review. My painting is in the last 12 seconds. Pretty funny huh.
IV. Shelf LIfe
Only a week or so left to see this show. October 28th, 2008 Together Gallery is proud to present "Shelf Life" A Group Exhibition Celebrating Art & Design. Featuring new works by. Liam Devowski, Jill Bliss, Ryan Jacob Smith, Adam Haynes, Derek Albeck, Marco Zamora, Sean Carmody, Andy Mueller, Keegan Onefoot, Casey Burns, Christina Vantzou, Matt Stephens, Jesse Brown, Colby Nichols, Robert Mars, Mark Warren Jacques, Parskid, Jean Jullien The show will run through November 23rd togethergallery.com
V. Portland Handmade Bazaar
I'll be splitting a table with my friend Henry and selling some of my stuff at the Winter Handmade Bazaar. Sunday, December 14th @ p:ear 338 NW 6th Ave. Portland, Oregon
VI. All Ages Movement Project
I illustrated a page in the upcoming book "The All-Age Movement Project: A Manualfesto for Youth and Music Space in Every 'Hood" I'm really exciting about this project because I grew up going to all-ages show, so this means a lot to me. Here's what AMP says about the book: The book is a guide to help people start all-ages spaces in their communities, using a group of amazing organizations to highlight some of the most important factors of starting all-ages spaces - organizational structures, finding funding, finding space and being self-sustaining. Some organizations featured in the book are: 924 Gilman (Berkeley, CA), Cave 9 (Birmingham, AL), Youth Movement Records (Oakland, CA), AS220 (Providence, RI), ABC No Rio (NYC), Batey Urbano (Chicago, IL) and the Vera Project (Seattle, WA). A few stats about the book: - The book is written by co-founder of Seattleís Vera Project, Shannon Stewart, and members of the AMP network from across the country. - The book is being designed by Seattle-based designer and publisher, Jacob McMurray. A few of you have worked with Jacob before and know how amazing his book and poster designs are. Please check outÝhttp://jacobmcmurray.blogspot.com/Ýif youíre not familiar with his work. - A compilation CD will accompany the book featuring Mt. Eerie, No Age, Kimya Dawson and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. - The book will be distributed by Sub Pop Records and AK Press
VII. Oregon's 150th birthday
Art Show This February Grasshut Gallery is throwing an art show for the 150th birthday. Sasquatchtenial with Emily counts Carson Ellis Theo Ellsworth Justin Scrapper Morrison Ryan Berkey Ryan Jacob Smith
811 East Burnside Portland, Or. 97214
VIII. My First Time Curating
I'm curating for the first time for this gallery in Portland, Oregon. www.fontanellegallery.com it's a group show of my favorite album artists called "Long Live The Ephemeral" the opening is in March 2009 here's the artists confirmed in the show so far: Sam Mcpheeters, Rich Jacobs, Jordin Isip, Melinda Beck, Marck McCoy, Ashley Macomber, Brian Roettinger, Adam Juresko, Christopher Norris, Chris Taylor, Drew Speziale, Brandon Evans, Seripop Raymond Pettibon Gee Vaucher Marcel Dzama
here's a rough statement i wrote for the show: Long Live The Ephemeral
As a teenager, The Ephemeral, the printed album cover was my beginnings of any type of an art collection, The card stock that wrapped the vinyl records was more then just the packaging to me. It gave a greater understanding of the ideas, and emotion of the music. Even back then the album buyer was already a niche audience. The close knit "Do It Yourself" culture spawned creative relationships and friendships between with bands, labels, and artists. Often times a band member ran the record label and created the art for the record. This DIY culture influenced and inspired people to start countless bands and records labels. It also inspired people to create non musical ventures, design companies, printing companies, and so on.The records, the culture and this community introduced me to some of my favorite artists and thus inspired me to get a BFA degree in illustration. Long Live The Ephemeral is an exhibition of my favorite album artists. These artist represent the influences of the past and the inspiration of the future in art, design, and the relationships with music.
IXI. Exquisite Book I have been asked to put work in this project. This is what they have to say: The Exquisite Book is a project based on the Surrealist game called the Exquisite Corpse. The book will be a modified version of the game, played by one hundred contributing contemporary fine artists, illustrators, designers and comic artists. There will be ten groups of ten artists participating in the process. Each artist will contribute one page to the book. The first artist will be given a few words to inspire their drawing. Each of the following artists will see only the page that immediately precedes their own. Each artist will use images (and optionally, words) to create their continuation to the story, and the inspiration for the next artist in line. Besides continuing the story of the last artist, there is another, more visual, connection between the pages. Each artist must have a horizon line in their image that starts on the left side of the page and ends on the right. Where the horizon line of the first artistís page ends, is where it begins for the next artist. Each artist will be given two weeks to complete their page. If all goes smoothly, the process will take five months. The book will be designed by Also and published by Chronicle Books in 2010. check out. www.exquisitebook.com
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The Americans a group show
July 4
811 East Burnside Portland, Or. 97214 Opens at noon on the 4th of July Bar Bee Que, Fireworks, Beer, Lemon-aid and art.
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Robert Bellm, Ryan Jacob Smith and Amy Sol
New Works July 12 August 9, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 6 p.m. 8 p.m.
Free and open to the public
825 Santa Fe
Denver, Co 80204
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"Sorry" Print Signed and numbered 2-color Edition of 100 18" X 24" preorder sale $10 off retail price ($40). each preorder gets a bonus mystery (thing?). thanks for (pre)ordering. shipping prints in a couple of weeks |
i love my county, but i apologize for it's leaders. USA! USA! USA! bring home the gold this summer! rjs
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"OMG! It's like soooooo pretty outside." Spring takes a while to arrive in Portland, the doom and gloom of winter lingers well into the "spring" months. Needless to say I'm amped on the sun right now. I'm in a couple of group shows in San Francisco and show in Canada. I wish I could attend all the openings.
1. Hot Cold Group Show SF!_______________________
Kick out the jams opening friday may 9th, 2008 6-8pm musical performances by: soft circle the urxed car clutch the luggage store 1007 market street san francisco, ca 94103 tel. 1. 415. 255-5971 www.luggagestoregallery.org gallery hours: wednesday-saturday, 12-5pm zine release gathering featuring: mary elizabeth yarbrough amanda eicher chris taggart bill dunlap christopher robin duncan ryan jacob smith jullianna bright the golden bears paul schiek william swanson jason jagel butt johnson colter jacobsen tucker nichols andy vogt glen baldridge chris corales ernesto burgos griffin mcpartland paul wackers hisham akira bharoocha jen smith jeremy and claire weiss chris pew hotandcoldmassive.com
2. Canada Drawing show________________________________
"SORRY" sorry: just black, white and gray. an exhibition of drawings by ryan jacob smith May 15, 2008 @ Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects 1086 and 1080 Queen Street W, Toronto Canada M6J 1H8 416.537.8827 info@katharinemulherin.com www.katharinemulherin.com
3. TREE SHOW SF (group show)____________________________________
May 17th 2008 4th annual TREE SHOW- Giant Robot SF 618 Shrader St. San Francisco CA 94117 Mon-Fri 11:30-8, Sat. 11-8, Sun 12-7 (415) 876.4773 www.gr-sf.com GR is donating a portion of the proceeds to the Friends of the Urban Forest. Friends of the Urban ForestPresidio of San Francisco, Bldg. # 1007P.O. Box 29456,San Francisco, CA 94129-0456
nat at bloom press http://www.bloompress.com/ is printing this design like right now. i should have them ready to ship for valentine's. what a bitter sweet design.
February 16, 2008
Printed Matter II
Giant Robot San Francisco
618 Shrader Street San Francisco, CA 94117 415.876.4773
reception: saturday february 16, 6:30-10pm
February 28, 2008
The Influence of Matter
Ryan Jacob Smith and Mark Warren Jacques
together gallery
2314 ne alberta portland, or 97211 503-288-8879
photos of the letters to the editor group show at FIFTY24
winter update: winter merch! winter shows! public speaking!?
stay warm, rjs!
prints and stuff:
tinyshowcase: Ryan Jacob Smith's "Late Bloomer" is part our Winter Print Collection 2007. Seasonal prints are much larger than the traditional Tiny Showcase print and sized to fit into a standard 8" by 10" frame. The non-editioned artwork will be available for an entire season, after which it will no longer be available for purchase. The rest of our first collection, available through Spring of 2008. 10% from the sale of each seasonal print will be donated to the United Nations Children's Fund. Founded in 1946, UNICEF has evolved into an organization that works to build a world where the rights of every child are realized. UNICEF works in the areas of survival and development, education and gender equality, AIDS and HIV prevention and treatment, child protection, and public policy work. Seasonal print orders within the United States will ship via USPS Priority Mail with delivery confirmation. International orders will ship via USPS First Class International Mail. http://www.tinyshowcase.com/artwork.php?id=1457
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new screen print: "healing crystals" three color print signed and numbered edition of 80 8.5" x 11" selling numbers 1-10 available at my esty shop
prints also available at:
Cinders Gallery 103 Havemeyer st. store#2 Brooklyn, NY 11211
NEEDLES & PENS 3253 16th Street (btwn Guerrero & Dolores) San Francisco, CA., 94103 Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak St. Portland, OR 97205
available soon at: http://littlepaperplanes.com/
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SHIRTS!!! receiver artist t-shirt now available!
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shows and events:
December 6 The Young Alchemists: New Work from Re-use and Found materials solo show
Independent Publishing Resource Center 917 SW Oak Street #218 Portland, Oregon 97205 Opening Reception: Thursday December 6 6pm-9pm http://iprc.org/
January 2 2008
111 at 111 group show 111 Minna Gallery 111 Minna Street at 2rd San Francisco, CA 94105 http://www.111minnagallery.com
January 10, 2008 Eine, Cum, Mario Wagner, Brent McHugh and Ryan Jacob Smith FIFTY24SF Gallery 252 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94109 fifty24sf.com January 17, 2008 Artist Talk: Ryan Jacob Smith 7pm Free, Must pre-register Independent Publishing Resource Center 917 SW Oak Street #218 Portland, Oregon 97205 http://iprc.org/
February 28, 2008 The Influence of Matter Ryan Jacob Smith and Mark Warren Jacques together gallery 2314 ne alberta portland, or 97211 503-288-8879 togethergallery.com
July 12, 2008 limited addiction gallery Robert Bellm, Ryan Jacob Smith and Amy Sol Limited Addiction Gallery 825 Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80204 limitedaddictiongallery.com
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web:
online interview: victoria-e.com
drew blood's video of the reform school show in los angeles
10.08.07
fall update: it's been a long time since i wrote an update. the main reason: i spent the whole summer in new york with no computer. ya see, i don't have a fancy labtop. i came out to new york for a group show at cinders gallery, super rad people and a great show. anyhow, new york was fun and hot. i saw old friends and make some awesome new friends.
porch show photos at cinders-----------
for more porch show photos go to http://www.cindersgallery.com/
ace hotel portland----------------------------
check out photos of room 322, i painted a mural. i'll have photos of room 404 soon.
reform school: los angeles----------------------------------
"Be Prepared" October 12
"The Scout Motto is: Be Prepared. A child falls into water- a Scout is prepared to save it. Someone breaks an arm -a Scout is prepared with first aid. A burning building, a life in danger- a scout is prepared, because he is trained and knows in advance what to do. To 'Be Prepared' you must KNOW WHAT to do, and you must be trained in HOW to do it." -Scout Field Book Boy Scouts of America 1948
October 12 opening reception 7-10pm
ReForm School
4014 Santa Monica Blvd. (At Sunset Blvd. in SilverLake) Los Angeles, CA 90029 (323)906-8660
http://www.reformschoolrules.com/
here's some new pieces for the show
check out the exclusive shirt design i did for reform school.
Receiver Gallery--------------------------
check out my artist page for receiver gallery.
receiver gallery is planning to release exclusive "let's just be friends" t-shirt, coming soon!
new york print show: POST EXPOSE!----------------------
OPENING NOVEMBER 1,2007 POST EXPOSE!
Long Island City Screen Printing and Design Center, grand opening exhibition will be on Friday November 2,2007 7-10 PM, with an after party with DJ's Kayrock & Duct Tape at K&M Bar, 225 N. 8th & Roebling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The exhibition will include screen printed works by: Ed Fella, Experimental Jetset, Seripop, The Little Friends Of Printmaking, Andrio Abero/33rpm, Jelle Crama, Zeloot, Randy Hunt/ Citizen Scholar, 333, Us & Them Studio 1800/Chris Rubino, Roger Bova, Julliette Oken, Maya Hayuk, Ryan Jacob Smith, Mogollon Guillaumit, Jestit Gill, Kayrock Screen Printing, Chris Millsteim, Urban Inks
for more info go to http://www.urbaninks.com/
Life at These Speeds / Thank God split 7"-------------------------------
I'm really excited about this upcoming release on exotic fever records I designed the Life At These Speeds side and Adam Juresko designed the Thank God side, and for the center we are collaborating, it's going to be epic!
IPRC, Portland, OR---------------------------
December 6, 2007
"The Young Alchemists" solo show
at Independent Publishing Resource Center 917 SW Oak Street #218 Portland, Oregon 97205 USA http://www.iprc.org
Journals! Little Otsu---------------------
I'm currently working on paintings for the three journal designs for little otsu. Each journal design will be themed like a science book (like TimeLife science book series). The Mind, Time and Energy. hopefully we'll have one journal design printed and available for the holidays.
5.03.07 may!
i finished two room murals for the ace hotel portland. room 404 and 322. the ace hotel a super positive place. the design and sustainable ethic really embodies the spirit of portland. also they serve stumptown coffee and there's a photo booth in the lobby.
the ace hotel. 1022 sw stark st. portland or. 97205. p: 503.228.2277
i started a flickr account for posting in-progress photos, installation photos, opening photos, and random stuff. there's only a few photos right now, i'll be adding a lot more.
i'm working on a exclusive design for ReForm School a shop located in silverlake, california. i'll be showing some art in the shop sometime in the fall, most likely october. ReForm School 4014 Santa Monica Blvd. (At Sunset Blvd. in SilverLake) Los Angeles, CA 90029 (323)906-8660
june i'm heading over to new york for a group show at cinders gallery in brooklyn. going to set up an installlation with 3D letters and a little mural painting.
The Porch Show (number 2) - June 8th - late July 2007 Opening Reception Friday June 8th 7-10pm 2007 Artists include Kim Schifino, George Ferrandi, Zachary Rossman, Suzanne Sattler, Ryan Jacob Smith, Julianna Bright, Mel Kadel, Rich Jacobs, Erika Somogyi, Sean Samoheyl, Monica Canilao, Kelie Bowman, Florencio Zavala, Caroline Hwang, Brendan Monroe, Julie Morstad, Saviour Scraps, Jenny Hart, AJ Fosik, Jeana Sohn, Eric Beltz, Jacob Magraw, Sto, Mike Brodie, Matt Leines, Julien Langendorff, Tim Harrington and more TBA!
Cinders Gallery 103 Havemeyer st. btwn Hope + Grand st.Williamsburg Brooklyn 718-388-2311 http://www.cindersgallery.com Hours: Wed - Fri 2 - 8pm, Sat 12 - 8pm, Sun 12 - 7pm
3/03/07 new design.finally, like an overdue library book.
i'm in a four person show at voice 1156 in san diego
"It's Only Humanity"
Ryan Jacob Smith, Kelsey Brookes, Paul Chatem, Mike Maxwell
Opening reception: Friday, April 6.