Artist Ryder Ripps, one of our Most Important Artists of 2014, continues his streak of next-level projects with an exhibition of digitally manipulated images from Adrianne Ho's Instagram. Ripps has been making these works, which got popular on his own Instagram page, since last year. People have interpreted them as everything from "cyber-Impressionist" to making commentary on the culture of modeling, celebrity, and image re-touching that uniquely proliferates on Instagram.
"Ho’s carefully staged, posed, and styled photos are digitally processed, then painted," states the press release. In becoming oil paintings, the pieces not only invert the culture of image manipulation that exists in the fashion industry, they also engage with art history and the new site of "the male gaze"—fingers moving across the decidedly unheroic touchscreen.
Titled "Ho," the exhibition will be on view at Postmasters Gallery in New York from January 24 to February 28, 2015. Browse some of Ripps' images of Adrianne Ho above.
