Reception: FRIDAY March 14, 6-9PM
Exhibition: March 14 - April 12

Lyons Wier • Ortt Gallery is pleased to announce our third James Rieck solo exhibition titled Annual Report.

For the last five years, James Rieck’s compositions have been inspired by and gleaned from commercial catalogs. Having delved through couture catalogs of the 1960’s, “How To Knit” catalogs of the 70’s, wedding catalogs and sexually heightened imagery from the Abercrombie and Fitch genre, James has now set his sights on the grandest of all sales catalogs - Annual Reports. This exhibition features several large-scale oil paintings (84” x 60”, 36” x 108” and 72” x 144”) that address the attitudes and pomposity of multi-national corporations by zeroing in on the body language projected by the CEO’s et al. that are typically featured in these ultimate sales tools.

Through amplified scale and deliberate cropping, James Rieck re-contextualizes the familiar compositions inherent to the lexicon of commercial photography. By focusing on the archetypal nature of the subjects, James has delivered a body of work that draws attention to the staging and psychological aspects behind the posturing of the source material.

James Rieck is currently a faculty member at the Corcoran College The Chairman 2008, oil on canvas, 84” x 60” of Art + Design in Washington, DC. He earned both his MFA and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Glasgow School of Art. In 2006, James received the prestigious Trawick Prize. He lives and works in Baltimore, MD. and has been represented by Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery since 2003. A catalog of the exhibition will be available in the gallery with contributing text from Dominique Nahas.

We’ve moved! Please visit us at our new ground floor gallery space located at the NE corner of 20th Street and 7th Avenue. For further information, please contact Michael Lyons Wier or Anna Ortt at info@lyonswierortt.com or 212.242.6220