RYAN STANDFEST

RYAN STANDFEST

  • PAINTING | DRAWING
    • memento mori (series in progress)
    • the american matchbook
    • cinema marquee
    • the american matchbook co.
    • closings
    • the workers
    • supply + demand mural
    • rotland mfg. co.
    • this must not be the place
    • a child's picture map
    • painting + drawing archive
  • PHOTO | PRINT
    • photo
      • factory heads
      • terminus
      • thread concentration occurrence
    • print
      • satire
      • signs
      • considering modernism
      • modern vulgarian
      • print archive
  • SCULPTURE
    • faktura lunch box
    • factory heads
    • false development promises sales case
    • wound work gloves
    • sensible proverb firearms
    • THINKMAKEBE altar
    • sculpture archive
      • carts for aged and incurable tyrants
      • sentiment boxes
      • werkwelt apparatus
      • elemental apparatus
      • They Came from Within (the houses)
      • house-pitting pump
  • BOOKS
    • selections from the american matchbook company
    • this must not be the place you thought it would be
    • joke catalogue number 2
    • a little book of banal agony
    • joke catalogue
    • framework report 2: ardent boner
    • framework report 1: the temple of frozen theatrics
  • CINEMA
    • prime fatalism
    • bug trouble
    • elemental apparatus
    • western death catalog
    • the dirt eater
    • got it kind of bad
    • industrial union
  • PERFORMANCE
    • a radiant cataclysm
      • a radiant cataclysm: excerpt 1
      • a radiant cataclysm: excerpt 2
    • the carbuncle procedure
      • carbuncle procedure: excerpt 1
      • carbuncle procedure: excerpt 2
      • carbuncle procedure: excerpt 3
      • carbuncle procedure excerpt 4
    • three happy butchers
      • three happy butchers excerpt 1
      • three happy butchers excerpt 2
      • three happy butchers excerpt 3
      • three happy butchers excerpt 4
    • a theory of nothing and the sound of everything
    • fat brando
    • hullab
    • king smiley boy
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • There's nothing so bad that it can't grow worse.
    • Dumpster Fire
    • I Went To Work But I Did Not Get There
    • THIS MUST NOT BE THE PLACE YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
  • WRITINGS
    • Detroit Art Review
    • Essay'd
    • The Problem of Entropy
    • Ceremonial Handball: On Jim Chatelain
    • The N-Word: Paintings by Peter Williams
    • Chopped-Up Figures in Boxes with Shapes Coming Out of Their Mouths: Comic Strip Poetics
    • Coitus Modern/Case Study: Modernist Erotic Delirium
    • Getting Malled: Back to the Third Place
    • Making Money Selling Manure is Better than Losing Money Selling Musk
    • Editorial: Getting To Know Charlie
    • Macabre Populism From The Chosen Land
    • Chicago: Comics On The Make
    • Creating Panic: Al Feldstein’s Humor at E.C. (1950-1955)
    • Black Humor And The American Comic
  • ROTLAND PRESS
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Virtual Lecture: The Economics of Dust

The Detroit Institute of Arts: Friends of Prints, Drawings and Photographs 2021

Virtual Lecture: From Rot New Growth Emerges, or How I Learned to Be A Publisher and Like It

The Parsons School of Design at The New School: The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium 2021

Virtual Discussion: The New Art of Protest- "Artist as Publishing Auteur"

Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice University and Printed Matter NY 2021

Virtual Symposium: DIY Print Culture and Citizenship

The Norman Rockwell Museum 2021

Art at the Max VII

Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center 2020

I Went to Work But I Did Not Get There

Simone DeSousa EDITION 2020

Making as an Act of Connection to History and Environment: In Conversation with Ryan Standfest by Danny VanZandt

Detroit Cultural 2020

An Italian Futurist Mural Takes Shape on Michigan Avenue by Michael Hodges

The Detroit News 2019

Essay'd No. 110: Ryan Standfest by Timothy van Laar

Essay'd 2019

Artist Ryan Standfest Takes a Dark Look at Failed Optimism by Michael Hodges

The Detroit News 2018

Glen Mannisto review of This Must Not Be The Place You Thought It Would Be

Detroit Art Review 2018

Sarah Rose Sharp Review of This Must Not Be The Place You Thought It Would Be

Hyperallergic 2018

Sarah Rose Sharp Review of Random Negotiations Toward an Unreasonable Happiness

Hyperallergic 2017


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