Matthew Ritchie: Remanence
2013 to 2014
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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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.
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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 feetOn 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.
An Interdisciplinary, 18-month artist residency from 2013 to 2014
Organized by Jenelle Porter, Mannion Family Senior Curator, Remanence includes a large-scale installation on the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall at the ICA; a residency with the ICA Teen Arts Council; and multiple performances. Among these are Remanence: The Long Count/The Long Game from a collaborative work Ritchie created with, among others, Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National, and Kim and Kelley Deal of The Breeders, and two new musical performances, Monstrance and Remonstrance, which will take place both on site at the ICA and at the nearby Chapel of Our Lady of Good Voyage.
The title Remanence: Salt and Light references both science and scripture. “Remanence” is a coined expression that integrates the words memory, remnant, and resonance and is scientifically defined as the magnetization remaining in a material after the magnetic field has been removed. Salt and light are metaphors in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:13-16), a passage cited by John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as he stated his intention to build “a city upon a hill.” Ritchie’s project visualizes the connections between the history of Boston and of the United States; science, religion and politics; and the ICA building, which, in Ritchie’s opinion, is itself a beacon on the bay.
The aim of Ritchie’s overall project is to expand the space of painting and drawing into six collaborative disciplines: architecture, city planning, video, performance, theater, and music—all while still retaining properties unique to painting and drawing.