Signs of Change
Tucson, AZ 2024
Signs of change are everywhere. The proliferation of the digital town square, several billion voices roaring on soapboxes. Everyone wanting just a few seconds of your time. Occasionally interrupted by a work of art, a beautiful song, a smiling face. Signs of Change are everywhere.
Phoenix, AZ 2023
Piercing the digital fog has become a radical act. A pop up dissident moment. A sign of change.
These signs pop up in unexpected places.
Tucson, AZ 2023, Winter
Signs of Change is a project that installs biodegradable Signs in unexpected places.
Louisville, KY 2022, Fall
A few of us got together to paint some simple signs that said “Vote”. We installed them throughout the city amidst the other political signs, with the intention of reminding everyone to participate. We made the signs whimsical, colorful. It wasn’t a demand, rather joyfully encouraging people to do something that might make them feel better, maybe even give them agency.
Sonoran Desert, 2023
Works in Cardboard are placed in various locations.
"Art Sign 9"
Acrylic on Sign Board
Tucson, AZ
2023
"Ice House"
Downtown, Tucson, AZ
Acrylic on Cardboard, Ice
2024
"Art Sign 21"
Acrylic on Sign Board
Tucson, AZ
2023
"Cactus Joy"
Sonoran Desert, AZ
Acrylic on Cardboard
2023
The Rytetta Installations
Ryetta is a metaphor for the elasticity of the art world. She is a cardboard cut out that interrupts the expected discourse, innocent, serious, honest. At a time of fierce neoliberal chauvinism she interrogates historical phenomenon, assumed realities whilst traveling from port to port.
Cardboard as an art form suggests the temporary, the immediate. Translucent drop cloths, of stitched plastics serve as backdrops to a theatrical scenario where the audience become the actors. They photograph and film themselves wandering in the environment, whimsical, etherial, playful. Each space a portal that opens, reality suspended.
"Ryetta Comes Home"
EASP Gallery, Eugene, OR
2013
"Ryetta’s Castle"
Citizens Studio, Tucson, AZ
2014
"Ryetta’s Port"
Monsoon Art Space, Tucson, AZ
2016
"Rays of Light: Wandering in Ryetta's Garden"
2023
Art Link 10th Annual Art d’Core
Park Central, Phoenix, AZ
2023
Ruby Farias and Michael B Schwartz
This uniquely designed installation is inspired by the theme Rays of Light. The artists invite audiences to transport themselves to a radiant and whimsical kinesthetic environment.
Art.Ology
Project Description
“Art.ology: Story Vessels” is a subscription based interactive arts project. Follow along on this creative adventure, informed by archeological discoveries, hidden artifacts, and travel adventures.
Subscribers get an exciting insiders view as the project unfolds. What will be discovered next? Our destination: unknown. Interact with the project through videos, paintings, drawings, photos, and direct mailings of stickers and a final project catalogue (December 2022).
Art.Ology Project Catalogue
A Digitalized PDF Catalogue of the Art.Ology project emailed directly to you.
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The Portrait Project
"Golda"
18” x 24”
Acrylic on Canvas
2024
“I.B. Singer”
16” x 20”
Acrylic on Canvas
2024
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