(Booth B19)
Miami Art Week
12/03/24 - 01/08/24
Ryan Bock x James Reyes
Join us at SCOPE Art Show (Booth B19) for a special feature of two of our favorite contemporary artist, both of whom we have been working and growing with for over a decade. This booth marks the reuniting and celebration of two artist and friends that have not shown side by side since the infamous Base 12 exhibitions including guerrilla pop ups a The Whitney, MoMA PS1 and the MTA.
James Reyes
James Reyes (b. 1991) is a Puerto Rican American artist who lives and works in the Bronx, New York. Reyes’s works are directly inspired by his cultural and social environment as well as the dream world. Using intensely gestural and occasionally chaotic brushstrokes, splashes, drips, sprays, and scrapes, Reyes conjures figures both fully rendered and surreal, creating portals into his subconscious and to the dream world. His mesmerizing interplay between figuration and abstraction mimics the surreal nature of dreams and memory where everything and nothing is happening all at once. Reyes’s process is reactive and intuitive using broad action packed gestures as a cryptic map to pull out the characters and symbols, allowing the abstraction of the underpainting to act a guide into his world. The push and pull between the layers of the work mirrors memory and imagination, where some moments are crystal clear while others fade into swirls of abstraction.
Reyes received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has since exhibited at numerous galleries, museums and fairs across the U.S.
Ryan Bock
Ryan Bock (b.1989) specializes in painting, drawing, puppetry, animation and experimental film methods. Bock’s practice is rooted in a need for narrative structure. Residing somewhere between mythology and nightmare, Bock depicts mise-en-scène riddled with symbology and allusions both cinematic and painterly. Maintaining a fascination for shape, shade, shadow, structure and optical illusion, Bock deconstructs his subject matter into often barely-recognizable delineations and structurally unsound repetitive patterns. In an attempt to confront the contemporary individual’s relationship to mortality, fear and superstition, Bock depicts correlations between the human figure and its innovations: technology, architecture and religion—both historically and fictitiously. By consistently contrasting historical subjects with those of the present, and using the recurring patterns found to generate predictions about our future—a process he refers to as ‘dusty futurism’—Bock propels his audience to reconsider the routine human experience and discloses the illusions implemented to keep them from questioning.