Reverence & Burden: Gregory Ruppe

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Gregory Ruppe, Ft. Worth, TX

Gregory Ruppe, Ghostride to Oblivion, Mixed Media, 2012

Gregory Ruppe queries how memories and cultural norms imbue inanimateobjects for his Concept/OK residencyproject, Things will never be the same.Working with sound, video and multiple media, Ruppe will present a dramatically alteredpiano.
He said, “Commonplace among households, the piano occupies a space ofboth reverence and burden. It is simultaneously cherished and unwanted.” 

Gregory Ruppe, Ghostride to Oblivion, Mixed Media, 2012

In his MFA exhibition at Texas Christian University earlier this year,Ruppe culminated a yearlong project where he documented and modified hisbeloved motorcycle. In this, he grappled with questions control and ourrelationship to the past and present like he will in the Concept/OK project. Guest curator Alison Hearst  recruited and is working with Ruppe. 

Gregory Ruppe, Mixed Media, 2012

Ruppe utilizes a broad range of media and materials, video, and soundto create installations and project-based works. He has exhibited regionallyand internationally, most recently at Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas) and inHiroshima, Japan. 
Ruppe is also a founding member of HOMECOMING!, anexperimental artist collective based in Fort Worth, where he currently livesand works.
The Concept/OK: Art in Oklahoma exhibition opens December 16, 1-5 pm at the new Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council’s Hardesty Arts Center. See www.concept-ok.org for more information.