Artist Ryan Trecartin Nominated for Big Prizes
October 19, 2009 at 4:17 PM If you're not a hardcore art fag, you might not have heard of Ryan Trecartin and his brilliant oeuvre of psychotic, grease-paint-smeared films. He's a 28-year-old, gay, Philadelphia-based artist whose body of work includes some sculpture, and the films (Tommy Chat Just Emailed Me) and I-BE AREA. What the movies have in common is that they're all freaky and scary, they're all hilarious, and they all seem to be not-so-subtly critiquing the absurd shallowness of modern life.
Ryan was just last week selected as a finalist for the Wolgin Prize in Philly, and he's a favorite to win the Best New Artist prize at the first annual Art Awards at the Guggenheim at the end of the month.
In the clip above from his 2004 thesis work A Family Finds Entertainment, a party full of drag queens and scary people with sped-up voices starts to turn wild, just as gay son Skippy is on his way there. (Watch the whole movie starting with Part 1 here.)
Below, a clip from I-BE Area.
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"Don't finish my sentence. I have tools that no one should let me use." awesome.