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...

The New Landscape: A History

Writing

This essay appears in the catalog Henry Isaacs: New Works for an exhibition at Maine Art Shows, August 9-September 1, 2014. The New Landscape: A History For much of art history, when the artist painted the land, he did so only as a backdrop, as context, rarely as...

How To Price Your Art

Art, Zine

How to Price Your Artwork: A History by Ric Kasini Kadour On April 28, 2005, I was asked to participate in a panel discussion in Burlington, Vermont about pricing artwork that was hosted by the South End Arts and Business Association. A few dozen people sat around the...

I Am Calling Today…

Art, Zine

This book begins “I am calling today to ask, Are you happy with your credit card processing?” It asks, “Are you happy with your resilience, your capacity for evolution?” And then it offers you tulip bulbs. The story is set against Pantone’s Top...

Emergency Box Painting

Art

For those times you are experiencing the death of painting. Emergency Box Painting  by Ric Kasini Kadour sculptural object each 5.75″ x 1.25″ x 1″ acrylic on paper in pine box 2013 unique SEE...

Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts for Yoko Ono

Art, Twelve-Days, Zine

I was sitting with a friend at Second Cup and the conversation came around to Yoko Ono. No other public figure teeters between adoration and unfounded opprobrium. At some point in the conversation, I said that I would make Christmas Gifts for Yoko Ono: paper...

Art Is Food

Art, Zine

Art Is Food, Feed the People. Art is Food, Eat Something. These have been the mantras of ARTSHOP since 2005. The phrase comes from a poem I wrote and read at an Art Town Meeting in Burlington, Vermont in February 2005. So many people asked me for a copy of the poem...

Art Product

Art, Ongoing Projects

I produce art products as a means of exploring further questions of object and meaning: How does an object have meaning? Why does an object have meaning? And what role do objects play in our lives? North Americans are consumers by nature. We acquire stuff. In doing...

ARTSHOP

Cultural Work, Ongoing Projects

How does an object have meaning? Why do we own objects? How do we consume, acquire, or collect objects? How does art become or maintain its relevance? These questions are central to my practice. I started ARTSHOP in 2004 as a way of organizing, exhibiting, and sharing...

Hold Me

Art

Hold Me 30″x80″; acrylic paint, spray paint, print transfer, and collage on reclaimed door; 2007 STATEMENT I have long enjoyed with the patina left by aging posters and bulletins and graffiti that accumulates on walls in a city. In 2007, my partners and I...

Love Guns & Other Weapons of Affection

Art, Prints

In April 2013, I started listening to “Grenade” by Bruno Mars: Easy come, easy go, that’s just how you live Oh take, take, take it all but you never give Should’ve known you were trouble from the first kiss Had your eyes wide open, why were they open? Gave you all I...

Boring

Art, Photography

Artist Statement “Boring” represented an important stage in my evolution from painter to photographer to artist who works to put images on paper. For those interested in artistic development and technique, I offer the following four observations: I continue to be...

I Keep Myself Together

Art, Photography

“I Keep Myself Together” is a series of 10 photographs that contrast urban isolation and natural beauty. New York is advanced urban life. One of the great things about New Yorkers is that they move through the city unaware or unconcerned that other people will see...

Day & Night

Art, Photography

Day & Night These photographs reflect my interest in abstraction and particularly, the abstracted landscape. In these “Day” photographs, wanted to push the edge of whiteness and blur. I also wanted to capture fields of color. In the “Night” photographs, I wanted...

Collage Is the Moment

Writing

Collage is The Moment by Ric Kasini Kadour from Kolaj Magazine, Pre-Issue (Fall 2011) Note: Before we launched Kolaj Magazine, we released a “pre-issue” in which we asked our contributors two questions: Why collage? and Why now? The answers they gave...