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Museum of Everyday Art: An Artless Exhibition

November 29 - December 8, 2012
Opening Wednesday 28th 19.00
Curated by
Born in California, Jim Ricks has resided in Ireland for 7 years. He earned his MFA from the National University of Ireland, Galway/Burren College of Art programme and received his BFA from the California College of the Arts. He has exhibited throughout Ireland and internationally. In addition, he was chairperson and curator of 126, Artist-run gallery (Galway) from 2007 –2009, managed Engage Art Studios (Galway), oversaw The Niland Gallery (Galway) and has organised and curated numerous other exhibitions in Ireland and in California. Ricks continues to tour the collaborative public work: 'In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)'. He recently showed '99%4ART' in The Shed (Galway) and curated 'Apposite Extravaganza: Cheating Progress' for the Volvo Ocean Race Galway and 'Death and Sensuality' (San Francisco) for Imagine Ireland.In the last 2 years Ricks has created the touring public work 'Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen' and shown at Peanut Gallery (Chicago), Occupy Space (Limerick), Pallas Contemporary Projects (Dublin), and the Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin). Upcoming shows include: The Black Mariah (Cork), Tactic (Cork), Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery (Clare), Monster Truck (Dublin),and the Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery.

In the weeks leading up to the Museum of Everyday Art, the artist/curator Jim Ricks will borrow a selection of objects local people collect, sell and keep. It is an exhibition that will be developed entirely while in Cork. By approaching persons, businesses, etc and asking to borrow something(s) for the exhibition, it is essentially a ‘residency’ that is collaborative, curatorial, research-based and well… fixated on the everyday conceptions of beauty. The exact results of this exhibition cannot be precisely calculated. The show will fill the gallery with a range of object/sculptures. It is entirely possible that many objects will be hand-made, nostalgic and kitsch and it is certain all of the things will not be considered art, as they will most likely be mass-produced and Ready-Made.

It is at once humourously critiquing the way we experience art; the way we see and know it, and it is simultaneously a serious extension of Ricks’ practice that hybridises institutional/ gallery and public/private roles into a single project. It blurs the distinctions between curator, audience, producer, collector, consumer, patron, etc. Essentially it is an art-historical and curatorial performance… It is at once a playful jab, an attempt to come to terms with the artist’s own uneasiness with the standards of the Artworld, a class-based look at what and who ‘makes’
something art, a critique of literacy and elitism, a post-conceptual populist exhibition that blurs the line between high and low, and a contrarian anti-art Museum. Issues of epistemology, ownership, permission, misrepresentation and audiences are fundamental as well. It will also be a conscious
nod to Dadaism, Duchamp, Triple Candie, Marcel Broodthaers’s museums, Jim Shaw’s collection of thrift store paintings, the work of Tom Marioni and the long and ‘proud’ history of institutional critique.

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