Search for Ironed Curtain
December 10, 2011 - March 10, 2012
The Presidio County Courthouse (Marfa, TX)

Second to None (2011)
December 10, 2011 - March 10, 2012
121 North Highland Avenue (Marfa, TX)

Ry Rocklen is a Los Angeles-based artist who collects cast-off objects from the streets, dumps, or thrift stores and assembles and transforms them into sculptures. Rocklen therefore instills these objects with new meaning, distinct from the viewer's preconceived perceptions of the objects' former functions.

As part of Nothing Beside Remains, Rocklen will present two projects: a new commission entitled Search for Ironed Curtain wherein the artist will install a series of custom-made fabrics in windows throughout Marfa, creating a "painting" to be viewed from the turret of the Presidio County Courthouse, that spans across the town, and Second to None, a construction of discarded trophies installed at 121 North Highland Avenue.

Ry Rocklen has had solo exhibitions at UNTITLED, New York (2011); The University of Texas at Austin, Austin (2010); Parker Jones, Los Angeles (2009); Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York (2009); Bernier/Eliades, Athens (2008); Baronian Francey, Brussels (2008); among others. Selected group exhibitions include Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara (2011); Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Marc Jancou, Paris (2010); That Was Then, This is Now, PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2008); and The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Musem of American Art, New York (2008).

Monday - Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Specials thanks to the Marfa Chamber of Commerce.

121 North Highland Avenue
Marfa, TX 79843

Friday
12:00 - 6:00 PM

Second to None courtesy of the artist and UNTITLED, New York.

Special thanks to Marfa Realty.