From many years of drawing and painting, I have developed a personal idiom depicting such things as fertility, growth, and death. The imagery suggests various iconographies and conveys the spirit or idea of transcendence. The process of creating these works has enabled me to express symbolically Eros, terror, peace, and other aspects of humanity by using universal shapes and structures found within the pantheon of the unconscious.
In recent years I have focused on drawing. I use a fine point pen and mending tissue, which is thin and translucent, but strong. For small drawings, I use one sheet folded. For larger ones, I stack, and fold so that there are twelve or sixteen layers of tissue in each drawing. I draw on the top layer only, allowing the ink to bleed through to the layers below to produce an osmotic image. Because the paper is so thin, one is able to look through the top layers into the drawing itself.
Education:
2000 - Pratt Institute, MFA
1995 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The University of Pennsylvania , BFA Cum Laude
One/Two Person Exhibitions
2007 - New Drawings, Feature, Inc., NYC
- Drawn out and Shot, with Kit Brown, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 - Metaphysics and the Virtual, with Joseph Nechvatal, Curated by Robert C. Morgan, Lab Gallery, NYC
2000 - Tissue Drawings, Monk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Paintings, Planet Thailand, Brooklyn, NY
1997 - New Arts Salon, Philadelphia, PA
1990 - Gallery Axiom, with Michael Malpass, Philadelphia, PA
1988 - Studio Diaboliques, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions:
2008 - Salon du Dessin, Galerie Trafic, Paris
- Spot Check: Academy Contemporary, Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2007 - Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
This Place is Ours! Puts Recent Academy Acquisitions in Context, Curated by Robert Cozzolino, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Drawn to the Edge, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC
2006 - Metaphysics and the Virtual, Curated by Robert C. Morgan, Lab Gallery, NYC
- MisCreated, curated by Tina Zlody, Clark University , Worcester , MA
- Internal Guidance Systems, Curated by Colin Rhodes and Anne Marie Grgich,
- Visionary Art Touring Exhibition, USA (Catalogue)
2005 - Contemporary Erotic Drawing, Diverse Works, Houston , TX and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum , Ridgefield , CT (Catalogue)
- Summer Selections 1, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
- Drawing For It 2, Spector Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
- Operation RAW, Ice Box Project Room, Philadelphia , PA
2004 - Itsy Bitsy Spider, Feature Inc. Gallery, NYC
- Anatomically Correct, Curated by Koan-Jeff Baysa, 473 Broadway Gallery, NYC
- Between the Lines, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
2003 - Innocence & Transgression, Curated by John Zorn, The Proposition, NYC
- Fantastic & Visionary Art, Curated by Damian Michaels & Alan Sisley,
- Orange Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition, Australia (Catalogue)
2002 - Arts of the Ethnosphere, Cavin-Morris Gallery, NYC
2000 - Monk Gallery, Brooklyn , NY
- Planet Thailand , Brooklyn , NY
1998 - Pay Per It, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn , NY
1997 - New Arts Salon, Philadelphia , PA
1996 - Off the Wall: A Mural Project, Moore College of Art , Philadelphia , PA
1995 - Sextasy Ball, Advanced Alternative Media, NYC
- The Love Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1994 - Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1993 - Studio Diaboliques Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1992 - Gallery Nadeau, Philadelphia , PA
- Art at the Armory, Philadelphia , PA
1990 - Gallery Axiom, Philadelphia , PA
1989 - Art Around the Edges, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia , PA
1988 - Studio Diaboliques Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1986 - Micro Max, Now Gallery, NYC
Art Fairs
2008 - Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris, Andrew Edlin Gallery
- Red Dot, NYC, Adam Baumgold Gallery
2007 - Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Projects Gallery
- Bridge Art Fair, Chicago, Projects Gallery
2006 - Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Projects Gallery
Collections:
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia , PA
The Collection Art Visionary, Melbourne , Australia
Bibliography:
Books:
2007 - Untitled publication, no.1 (Spring), Feature, Inc., NYC (reproduction)
2005 - Koestenbaum, Wayne, Taylor, Sue, Contemporary Movements and Surveys: Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (reproduction)
Periodicals:
2007-“Jesse Bransford/Huston Ripley/Dick Blair,” Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, July 2, p.13
2006 - Murphy, Eliza, Raw Reviews, Raw Vision Magazine, RV#56
2005 - Glueck, Grace, Airborne Sex and Wicked Wallpaper: Sensual Samplings, The New York Times, July 29
- Genocchio, Benjamin, Erotic Goes Mainstream, The New York Times, May 8
2000 - Blackburn , Meg, A Q+A with Artist Huston Ripley, www.freewilliamsburg.com, Oct.
- Morgan, Robert C., Quick Take on Williamsburg , NY Arts Magazine, April, p.23
1997 - Mangravite, Andrew, Believe It or Not, Philadelphia Forum, Feb. 27, p.7
1995 - Polak, Maralyn, Puns Batted In, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday Magazine, June 1
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