Matthew Ritchie: Remanence 2013 to 2014
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

  • Remanence: salt and light
    Acrylic paint and digital media accessed via wireless mobile device
    70 x 70 feet

    On view: September 2013 – Fall 2014
    Conceptually and visually tied to Ritchie’s multidisciplinary, 18-month residency, the mural's diagrammatic imagery draws inspiration from Boston’s history and waterfront location. Featuring gray lines atop a pale blue background, the mural, installed on the façade of the ventilation building on Dewey Square on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway, brings the dynamic history of abstract painting into daily public life in Boston.

    Please visit rosekennedygreenway.org for additional information.

  • Remanence: salt and light
    Acrylic paint and digital media accessed via wireless mobile device
    70 x 70 feet

    On view: September 2013 – Fall 2014
    Dewey Square on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway

  • Remanence: Remonstrance
    Acrylic paint, Phototex, vinyl, Max/Msp and Jitter, computer, speakers, cameras, and digital media accessed via wireless mobile device
    27 x 95 feet

    On view: February 28, 2014–June 2015
    Ritchie’s contribution to the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall will continue his exploration of the possibilities, limitations, and collaborative capabilities of various media. Here, painting escapes its traditional confines both dimensionally—by extending across the art wall to the adjacent bay of windows—as well as materially—through the inclusion of sound. The imagery, like the Dewey Square mural, will be composed of dark, gestural and diagrammatic lines on a pale background. The drawing on the wall will become more and more colorful as it reaches the windows, where the drawing will erupt with complexity and color.

  • Remanence: Remonstrance
    Acrylic paint, Phototex, vinyl, Max/Msp and Jitter, computer, speakers, cameras, and digital media accessed via wireless mobile device
    27 x 95 feet

    Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall
    On view: February 28, 2014 - June 2015

  • Remanence: Remonstrance
    Acrylic paint, Phototex, vinyl, Max/Msp and Jitter, computer, speakers, cameras, and digital media accessed via wireless mobile device
    27 x 95 feet

    Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall
    On view: February 28, 2014 - June 2015

  • Exterior view:

    Remanence: Remonstrance
    Acrylic paint, Phototex, vinyl, Max/Msp and Jitter, computer, speakers, cameras, and digital media accessed via wireless mobile device
    27 x 95 feet

    Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall
    On view: February 28, 2014 - June 2015

  • Exterior view:

    Remanence: Remonstrance
    Acrylic paint, Phototex, vinyl, Max/Msp and Jitter, computer, speakers, cameras, and digital media accessed via wireless mobile device
    27 x 95 feet

    Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall
    On view: February 28, 2014 - June 2015

  • Remanence: Monstrance and
    Remanence: Remonstrance
    March 29, 2014, 6pm and 8pm
    ICA and Our Lady of Good Voyage Performance
    Performers: Bryce Dessner, David Sheppard, Shara
    Worden, and Evan Ziporyn, with Elaine Rombola Aveni, Shaw Pong Liu, Ian Maser, Chris Moore, Blake Newman, and Randy Pingrey

  • Remanence: Monstrance and
    Remanence: Remonstrance
    March 29, 2014, 6pm and 8pm
    ICA and Our Lady of Good Voyage Performance
    Performers: Bryce Dessner, David Sheppard, Shara
    Worden, and Evan Ziporyn, with Elaine Rombola Aveni, Shaw Pong Liu, Ian Maser, Chris Moore, Blake Newman, and Randy Pingrey

  • Teen Residency
    Remanence: Germinal
    September 2013–September 2014

    Matthew Ritchie works with the ICA’s Teen Arts Council and Fast Forward new media students beginning in Fall 2013 to create a new, collaborative project: a video that will become a part of the overall project. They will also create a video interview with the artist, and explore ways to document the various components of the project, including blog posts, images, and other media.

    Teen Arts Council: Dora Agali, Natalie Barry, Aryana Blake, Ralph Casseus, Malcolm Cuetara, Isaac Davenport, Onochie Ferdinand, Lauren Galloway, Cecelia Halle, Aric Oak, Izzy Ramirez, August Rosenberg, and Al Spruill

  • MATTHEW RITCHIE
    The Salt Pit
    2008
    Oil and marker on linen
    96 x 149 3/4 inches
    (243.8 x 380.4 cm)
    ARG# RM2008-003

    Currently on view in Expanding the Field of Painting at the ICA/Boston.