ARTnews Best Booths at EXPO Chicago

Thank you to Max Durón for including us in ARTnews’ Best Booths at EXPO Roundup! Stop by Booth 411 to see new works by Jen Everett and Ryan Patrick Krueger. The fair continues through Sunday. 

“In the Exposure section, Buffalo’s Rivalry Projects is presenting works by two artists who mine different image sources to create compelling pieces. 

Ryan Patrick Krueger maintains an ongoing correspondence with photography curator Vince Aletti, who sends him queer-related images, clippings, and mail art. Krueger collages these into dense visual narratives of gay men’s lives from earlier generations. In one work, a studio portrait of two nude men, strategically covered by a draped towel, is slightly obscured by an archival personals ad promoting the “romantic secrets of Jeff Stryker,” the gay porn star—for $2 a minute.

In dialogue with Krueger’s pieces are works by Jen Everett, who collages images of her parents with found photographs and photographic materials like print sleeves and test strips. At the center of the booth, Everett also presents sculptures of legacy technologies—radios, speakers, televisions, vinyl records, and cassette tape cases—that she sources for their personal resonance. Some are in working condition, others aren’t. Everett sees it as a way to memorialize both sound and silence.”