Barbara Lee

Steve Turner is pleased to present Barbara Lee, a solo exhibition by New York-based Ryder Ripps consisting of fifty thousand small photographic images presented on 120 square feet of shallow platforms on which visitors can walk or sit. Two similarly adorned obelisks will rise up from the platform. Ripps only sought images that have strong visual impact and legibility when reduced to one-half inch squares. According to Ripps, “In the attention economy, images are in a Darwinian struggle where only the least nuanced and most sensational survive. The image feed is selfish and grotesque; it disregards the past; it favors divisive content; it is not concerned with ideas and it favors those that have an insatiable appetite for attention.” Barbara Lee is notable as the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the authorization of use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.