R.U.R.

 Soap Factory: Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Kimberly Ellen Greene and Amy Ritter work with ceramics and blown glass: Greene with hand-made objects that mimic the reproducible industrial atom, while Ritter’s glass sculptures create from the human form in ways that are both obvious and willfully obscure. - Ben Heywood

There were over 350 people at the opening, lots of great conversations happened between artists and the public. I must give thanks to my awesome entourage which consisted of Emily Mcbride and Hannah Miller for helping to install, take pictures, and being supportive - thanks friends!

This is one of the three forms I used in the show.

  

The entire piece was titled "You know, when you put the thing inside the thing"

People wanted to touch and some did.

I love the girl in the blue jackets expression!

What do you see? The materials are glass, lard, and wood.

I was interviewed and this will be available soon on the Soap factories website. www.soapfactory.com

This weekend  I took an exploratory trip to the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota to take a look at the gallery space. I will be showing there along with 8 other artists in March 2013.

--The Soap Factory is located in the former National Purity Soap Company building, donated to the organization by Pillsbury in 1995. This historic 48,000 sq. ft. wood and brick warehouse-located along the riverfront near the birthplace of Minneapolis-makes The Soap Factory the third largest contemporary art gallery in Minneapolis/St Paul, and one of the largest devoted to emergent practice in the USA. We are the only true "raw" space in Minneapolis/St Paul, a unique showcase for sculpture, installation, painting, performance, photography, film, and video.  http://www.soapfactory.org/mission.php

Just one of the rooms in the giant 48,000 sq. ft space.-->

Some old lard left over from the factories history of soap making.

In progress

David Ireland summed my art practice up for me today when I read:

 I call myself a non-media installation artist. I prefer to explore without any end or purpose in sight, an active inquiry on an architectural scale. I just live my life and my art occurs in the process.


New studio shots:

                             

What i'm looking at

The Love Nut!! coco-de-mer, a nut that grows in the islands of Seychelles. This i s the worlds largest nut.

Sarah Lucas

Self-portrait with Fried Eggs 1996 C-print 167 x 119 cm

Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim, Two Objects, fabric, piping, wood, foam, motor, aluminum, electric cord, timer.

The 2nd year of Grad school begins...

Ohio Art League presents: SPACE
 Curated by: Amy Ritter

Artwork by Amy Ritter and Kate Dowell 

Dicking around

Glass, Cement, wax, material

Dorothy Gill Barnes posing with the piece

 Within the pair and inbetween

wax, material

 soak her

absorbent material, dirt

 

"There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it," -Man Ray

                                                                        

GAS 2012 Fashion Show

                Outfit made out of the remains from my glass molds (jeans) worn by Megan Lockhart!!!!

Graduate school: first year

 

                                                        Blowing glass on domestic forms

 

 shoe blow mold 

 

pillows

 

 

             
                                                  

 Pants Blow---blowing glass into jeans, still working on display.

                                                  The detritus from blowing into the jeans

 

 

In progress-- to be installed in a wall

 

 

I've also been photographing myself with the work.

 

                                                                       My studio