Portraits on Arrival

Art

“Portraits on the Arrival” is an incomplete series of photographic portraits in which I intercede to portray a moment of expanded consciousness. I imagine the men portrayed here on the verge of a new way of thinking and, to commemorate the moment, have...

Lucky Beads

Writing

Street people and artists are two archetypes that society imbues with magic, probably because, like The Bead Lady, street people and artists use mystique as a defense against “petty meanness”….Both are living outside of societal norms. Both struggle to eke out a...

Their Charm Awaken

Writing

Sara Willadsen invited me to write the forward to the catalog that accompanies her exhibition, “Boundaries:New Work by Sara Willadsen” at Frank Juarez Gallery, September 8 – October 20, 2018. The catalog can be purchased HERE. Their Charm Awaken...

A Builder Turns to Landscape

Writing

Edwin Owre’s New Series Pushes Landscape Painting Forward This essay appeared in Vermont Art Guide #7. Vermont Art Guide #7 has nearly two hundred places to see art around the state. The full-color, printed magazine has artist and venue profiles as well as articles...

Antenna::Signals No. 7: Paper

Talks

KASINI HOUSE EVENT Ric Kasini Kadour at Antenna::Signals at Antenna’s Paper Machine in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA January 24, 2018, 6-8:30PM In celebration of the opening of Antenna’s Paper Machine print center, Signals presentations and performances examine...

Kolaj Magazine

Cultural Work, Ongoing Projects

Print Magazine and Community Organizing Project 2011 to present | www.kolajmagazine.com Kolaj Magazine is an internationally-oriented, printed, quarterly magazine about contemporary collage. We are interested in how collage is made, how collage is exhibited, and how...

What Will Be of Us

Art, Photography, Zine

“What Will Be of Us” is a continuation of the series, “I Keep Myself Together”, in which Kadour pairs photographs with texts to evoke a response in the viewer. “I am interested in the isolation of contemporary life and the sometimes...

The Veneration of Ruskin

Art, Prints, Zine

“The Veneration of Ruskin” celebrates the 19th century art critic John Ruskin. The 200th anniversary of his birth will take place in 2019. The project draws on Kadour’s interest in apotheosis, altar making, and still life paintings. The series of...

Art in Troubled Times

Writing

ESSAY Art in Troubled Times by Ric Kasini Kadour Note: A version of this essay appears as the editorial in Vermont Art Guide #5. The start of Summer 2017 felt pretty good. An exhibition I curated for the Vermont Arts Council opened in June. I built “Connections:...

My Junk Taste Like Flowers

Art, Photography

In early 2012, I had been thinking about objects and particularly why objects matter and why we collect the stuff we do. Around that time, I interviewed Katharine Mulherin at her gallery on Queen West in Toronto. I learned we share an interest in collecting seemingly...

Clouds :: Knowledge

Art

An ongoing project, Clouds :: Knowledge investigates the visual imagery of sky and clouds as a symbol of knowledge and epistemology in contemporary life. BACKGROUND One day, I was sitting at a coffee shop with an artist friend and trying to remember the name of this...

Pulse (2016)

Art

Installation made in response to the shootings at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016. Pulse consisted of three parts: a haystack of old shirts; a framed tweet; and a sound work by Terry Fairfield consisting of various cell phone noises.

Deals for the New Century

Art, Prints

STATEMENT We experience so much artwork online; we forget that what we’re seeing is actually little boxes. I think we tend to confuse these little boxes of information for the actual artwork they represent. Deals for the New Century is the second piece in a series of...

Everything That Is Wrong With You & How to Fix It

Art, Zine

The book begins “You are a piece of shit and nobody likes you.” Ric Kasini Kadour’s Everything That Is Wrong With You and How to Fix It takes as a point of departure Austrian playwright Peter Handke’s 1966 anti-play Publikumsbeschimpfung during which actors cast...

Authentic Contemporary Art

Art

Authentic Contemporary Art is a satirical installation and performance piece that is intended to cause reflection upon how contemporary art is marketed, reported, and discussed. The project is a response to art critics Sarah Thornton and Dave Hickey announcing that...