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OX-OP ARTS PRESENTS:
KRK Ryden "The Atomic Glob Show"
Artist Reception: Saturday SEP. 11TH, 7:00 pm – 10:00pm
Show runs SEP 11TH – SEP 30th, 2004

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - And they say high school never did anything for anyone: in 1968, drawing an art movement from a hat for a class project, Keyth Ryden – KRK to you – was introduced to Surrealism and was never quite the same. Surrounded as he was with the psychedelic style of California in the late 60s, and under the tutelage of an attentive high school art teacher with a bevy of techniques under his belt, Keyth found a focus for his energies and a job as an art director at Fibre magazine.

A few years later, in 1975, on a Yippy pilgrimage to the DNC in Kansas City, KRK gained an invitation to take up residence with the radicals in New York city. Apparently Madison, WI was just a bit more radical, however; KRK stopped off there on his way out east and simply stayed. Here Keyth Ryden
Visual (KRV – later Keyth Ryden Kreations, or KRK) was born, creating logos for local music clubs and bands. It only took four years for KRK to yearn for California’s sunny skies again, though, and he moved his fledgling business back west and took up dj’ing at local radio stations where his love
of hardcore punk and Devo could flourish. As his art career continued, KRK collaborated with Mark Mothersbaugh on “The Brainwasher,” participated in low-brow shows up and down the Pacific coast, and even put in a semester at the San Francisco Academy of Art (apparently, one’s all you need), before settling in at Last Gasp, for whom he had created a masthead 30 years previously, in the late 90s.

KRK’s artwork vacillates between clean, compact, comic-book style graphics and crowded, lush, surrealist paintings, but it certainly never fails to capture your attention. It is, as he says, “a record of mongrel pop culture.” His landscapes have the saturated appearance of a movie set – if it was created by Heironymous Bosch and Salvador Dali on a bender – on which he has superimposed any number of artistic manifestations of his stream-of-consciousness. Come September 11th, 2004, you may find yourself wondering just how KRK has stolen your dreams, but thanking him for laying
them out so expertly. Please join Ox-Op Arts for an artists’ reception in honor of the new works of KRK Ryden from 7-10pm, Saturday, September 11th.

OX-OP ARTS
1111 Washington Ave S.
(Behind Grumpy’s Bar)
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Ph. 612-259-0085

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