Ben Ruggiero's work has shown both nationally and internationally including Art and Commerce's Festival of Emerging Photography, Fotofest and Austin Museum of Art's New Art in Austin Triennial.
His recent solo project "After Icebergs with a Painter" was shown at Testsite in 2010 and addresses the mythology and visual legacy of Romanticism and its relationship to Photography as realized by Frederic Church and in particular his painting "The Icebergs."
His work was on display this summer in the membership show curated by Ariel Shanberg at the Houston Center for Photography, as well as upcoming work being included in the Museum of Fine Art's Photo Forum 2011. He is a graduate of Bard's MFA program, a Lecturer of Photography at Texas State University as well as a member of the Austin photography collective Lakes Were Rivers.
Ben Ruggeiro with Anthony Ruggiero
Opening September 9th in St Louis at the Bruno David Gallery, this exhibition features hundreds of intimate small-scale artwork from the first seven years.
With the proliferation of video recording devices and the variety of ways in which to view video, the video artist's intent can get muddled. The initial experience of watching video meant for a large screen fluctuates greatly from seeing it on YouTube. For the 2nd annual exhibition, the Museum of Pocket Art invites video artist to submit work with the intent of seeing work on a mobile device.
Curated by Portland's Grand Detour.
Abstract Small is organized by Museum of Pocket Art Exhibitions Director Mario Trejo and showcases some of Trejo's favorite contemporary painters. The first MoPA show to focus specifically on painting, Abstract Small will utilize the unique parameters of the Museum to explore the intimate processes of the painter, showing works that more than hold up to their large-scale counterparts.
This exhibition will "employ" the standard business card as a jumping-off point for an exuberant skewering and subversion of corporate language and structure.
Curated by MoPA Communications Director Hannah Piper Burns
Using catalogues, magazines, books, and postcards referencing art, textiles, furniture, interior and industrial design, Jan Blythe's mixed-media collages fracture and re-combine found images into formal exercises far removed from their original source imagery. This solo exhibition is an extension of Blythe's broader art practice, which allows materials to combine and transform in her hands as she manipulates them to unexpected ends.
With the proliferation of video recording devices and the variety of viewing platforms, the video artist's intent can get muddled. The initial experience of watching video meant for a large screen fluctuates greatly from seeing it on YouTube. For the inaugural exhibition of an annual series, the Museum of Pocket Art invites video artists to submit work meant to be viewed on a mobile device.
Curated by SEO Wan-Tae and MoPA Museum Director Robert Jackson Harrington
Cognition and decision-making is an inherent aspect to any art practice. This process makes the artist fully aware of self while developing work. This show attempts to remove the decision process from the work and thus provide an insight into the unconscious artist.
Curated by MoPA Museum Director Robert Jackson Harrington
An evening at the Lab featuring our last 10 exhibitions with work from over 40 artist.
Reception on Friday, December 4th from 5 to 9pm. Exhibition continues Sat the 5th, and Sunday the 6th, 1 to 6pm, in conjuction with the Postcard Show 13.
Contemporary society lives in a state, a cultural condition even, of anticipation. The title of the show, Titanic Piano, is an anagram for "anticipation." This incarnation of the Museum of Pocket Art acts as an actual site of anticipation, ultimately reflecting the cultural state of contemporary subjectivity. Whether inventive, escapist, or evocative of anxiety, anticipation propels us into an unknown future. We asked fourteen artists to consider the grand nature of Titanic Piano, with its touch of humor and hint of doom, as it relates to our current global social and economic climate.
Co-curated by Nancy deY Elkus and Laura Boles Faw
Eric Shultis is a painter and photographer whose work explores personal history, memory, and gender. He has exhibited his work nationally in galleries and museums including the Illinois State Museum in Chicago and Springfield (solo and group exhibitions), Dadian Gallery in Washington D. C. (solo exhibition), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan (solo exhibition), the Chicago International Art Expo, I Space in Chicago, Sheldon Art Galleries and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis.
Shultis received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and his B.F.A. and Associates Degrees From Kendall College of Art and Design. Shultis has taught at Florissant Valley since 1998. Previous teaching includes the University of New Mexico, Trinity Christian College in Chicago and Kendall College of Art and Design.
Organized by Mario Trejo.
MoPA invited artists and architects to submit sketches, ideas or reactions to the fictional International Museum of Arts. The proposed space houses the world's largest collection of art, from antiquities to contemporary work in an urban space, housed in over 4 square miles of footage. The initial idea for the show was inspired by Frank Gehry's quick sketches of his plans for future designs on napkins. The show hopes to explore the simple elegance and communicative power that a sketch can convey.
Organized by exhibitions director Mario Trejo.
Curated by Hannah Piper Burns and Alexandra Chowaniec.
Curated by Clark Buckner director of MISSION 17 in San Francisco.
Featuring work by Los Angeles artist Robert Moya.
Featuring work by artists Priyanka Gupta and Matthew Cella.
Curated by Jeannene M. Przyblyski director of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets.
Featuring work by artists Manuel Guerra and Susan Klahr.
by longtime MOPA supporter Richard Smit.
Work by artists Odin Perez, Marvin Hill and Adrianna Corral.
Curated by New York artists Jose Enrique Krapp and Cindy Krapp.
MOPA's inaugural exhibition.