THE RYAN TRECARTIN PRESENTATION

BORN: 1981, IN: WEBSTER TEXAS. RECEIVED BFA FROM:Rhode Island College of Design, IN: 2004. RYAN TRECARTIN SOMETIMES LOOKS LIKE THIS:

FREQUENT COLLABORATOR LIZZIE FITCH LOOKS LIKE THIS:

(both images are stills from Trecartin's 2007 film I-Be Area) THE FIRST CLIP FROM THE FILM VALENTINES DAY GIRL (2001) (youtube disabled embedding by request so here is the link, yo)
THE SECOND CLIP IS FROM THE FILM YO A ROMANTIC COMEDY (2002) THE THIRD CLIP IS FROM THE FILM A FAMILY FINDS ENTERTAINMENT (2004)
THE STAATCHI GALLERY said, "...Ryan Trecartin’s film A Family Finds Entertainment is a camp extravaganza of epic proportions. Starring Trecartin’s family and friends, and the artist himself in a plethora of outrageous roles, A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption." ABOUT A FAMILY FINDS ENTERTAINMENT HERE ARE SCULPTURES FROM THE YEAR 2006: This first ones called WORLD WALL and was created as a response to hurricane Katrina.

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THIS NEXT ONE IS CALLED MANGO LADY

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HERE IS ANOTHER ONE CALLED MOTHER
HERE IS YET ANOTHER ONE CALLED ABRAHAM WITH THE LONG ARM
THESE SCULPTURES, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WORLD WALL WERE PART OF TRECARTIN'S 2006 "I SMELL PREGNANT" SHOW AT THE ELIZABETH DEE GALLERY.
HERE IS YET ANOTHER ONE AGAIN CALLED VICKY VETERINARIAN

THE SAATCHI GALLERY SAYS, "... Ryan Trecartin conceives his exhibitions as akin to theatre productions: the actual art work is the show, his sculptures exist as props, memorabilia, or spin-offs representing their contributions to the event. His figures mill about the gallery as potential viewers, a motley crew of freaks and wierdos, an exaggerated and humorous cross-section of society-as-it-is."

THE FOURTH AND FINAL FILM CLIP IS FROM TRECARTIN'S 2007 PROJECT I-BE AREA

THE WHOLE FILM CAN BE VIEWED ONLINE HERE
NEWMUSEUM.ORG SAID, "Trecartin's first feature-length video I-Be AREA extends the artist's singular process and style into new territory. Fast-paced and dense with drama, I-Be AREA relates the intertwined stories of an exuberant ensemble, played by Trecartin and dozens of others, as they cope with themes such as cloning, adoption, self-mediation, lifestyle options, and virtual identities. The film centers around Jaime's Area (played by Lizzie Fitch), a space which functions, in the artist's words, as a kind of “bedroom/classroom/drama department/blog space/Internet-community site where the characters malfunction in the face of everything being everything and come to act on their own creative potential.”