The Morning Hope Got Away, 2008
c-print, edition 1/5
16 x 20 inches

Amber Noland + Link Contemporary Art Present:

Anne Ricketts
blue skies ahead

Opening Saturday March 28th, 2009 6pm-9pm

You are cordially invited to an exhibition of new work by Anne Ricketts.
March 28 - May 14, 2009

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Amber Noland + Link Contemporary presents “Blue Skies Ahead” a solo exhibition of recent work by Anne Ricketts, opening Saturday March 28, 2009 6-9 pm. Ricketts showcases a body of work that centers itself on the impermanence of life through the function of memories. Ricketts’ work explores how memory, which is often not real or accurate, is the very thing that shapes who we are.

“The Morning Hope Got Away,” a photograph of a sculpted landscape of Ricketts’ childhood horse running away, offers a recollection of that dreamlike-state of memory with its constructed meaning filtered through the photographic and topographic mediums. An accomplished sculptor, Ricketts cast a bronze horse, also titled “The Morning Hope Got Away.” This bronze is then painted to appear as a rubber cast toy and stands as visage to Hope and the layers of our perceptions.

Through her series of drawings; “All My Shitty Jobs (Or At Least Some Of Them)” are wittily drawn on the backside of gallery invitations from the Pace Wildenstein Gallery in Los Angeles (from the time when she was a receptionist there.) The gallery invitations were made as throw aways, lasting only until the opening of each show, and then discarded. Ricketts uses these discards to record her own discarded events – all of her shitty jobs. Her skewed perspectives play with the idea of constructed memories as marked by the significant details in each tableau.