MUST COME DOWN
I'm currently in pre-production for my first feature-film called Must Come Down, scheduled to go into production at the end of July. If you'd like to learn more about the project, please visit: http://mustcomedownmovie.com and if you'd like to support the project, please visit: http://kck.st/dbUyn9
I WISH THINGS WERE DIFFERENT
Nov. 20 - Nov. 30, 2009
Show at Kayo Gallery (177 east 300 south, Salt Lake City)
Opening reception: Nov. 20, 6 - 9 pm
New works by Kenny Riches and a collection of collaborative video works with TJ Nelson and writing by Waine Riches.
This is my first show back at KAYO since I sold the gallery to current owners Shilo Jackson and Davina Pallone at the end of 2007. The work in I WISH THINGS WERE DIFFERENT is not about regret, as the title may suggest, it's about nostalgia, hardship, change, and adventure. Like most of my work, the pieces focus on the past, both mine and those around me, both truth and metaphorical, stories lived and stories told. There has also been a great deal of influence from my father's writings, which will be incorporated into the show. Another big element of the show is a video project in which I collaborated with local artist/filmmaker, TJ Nelson, that will be displayed and sold as a fundraiser for the production of my first feature-length film scheduled to start production next summer.
PRESS
In This Week: Gallery Stroll Artist Profile: Kenny Riches
Slug Magazine: Gallery Stroll
City Weekly: The link has been disconnected. The full article is below.
Kenny Riches
Friday November 20,2009
A kind of artistic circle is completed but another one opened with Kenny Riches’ exhibit at Kayo Gallery. Riches started Kayo Gallery in 2005. He sold the gallery in 2008 to Shilo Jackson, and this show marks his first return to display his work there. Riches’ new works play with images of regret and loss in the context of portraits—both family and self—in an ironic style influenced by editorial cartoons and political iconography yet in a context that’s much more personal. But you have to wonder at the title of the exhibit and read some probable irony into it, as well. Certainly, Riches has some regret at selling Kayo but also satisfaction at being able to grow his own work in the meantime. He can also take pride in what Jackson and co-owner Davina Pallone have done with his baby—that his vision of optimism for the local art scene has become one of the most progressive and adventurous art spaces in the city. Considerations of alternate lives or circumstances are rendered in more than one medium here. In addition to Riches’ new paintings (“I’ll Say I Knew You When” is pictured), the show will feature “Cut-Offs,“ a series of collaborative video works with TJ Nelson. Proceeds from the art and videos sold benefit the production of Riches’ first feature-length film, which he plans to start shooting next summer.
Date: 11/20/2009
Category: A&E Essentials
Phone: 801-532-0080
Address: 177 E. 300 South
Where: Kayo Gallery