Ryan Patrick Krueger, Come Out, 1972, 2023,
Vintage newspaper, candle holders, candles, and photo copies, 36 x 48 x 5.25 inches

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Location:
Navy Pier, Chicago

VIP and Press Preview:
Thursday, April 24

Public Days:
Friday, April 25
Saturday, April 26
Sunday, April 27

Excited to announce our participation in EXPO CHICAGO. Rivalry will be participating in the EXPOSURE section of the 2025 exposition, curated by Rosario Güiraldes (Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center), with a dual presentation of new works by Jen Everett and Ryan Patrick Krueger.

Ryan Patrick Krueger creates photographic and collage-based works that utilize memory - collective and individual - to recover a lost visual history of queer intimacy. They source photographs, everyday objects, and queer publications, both pre- and post-Stonewall, to memorialize implied and overt moments of connection. This presentation will include a series of wall-based collage works. In Come Out, 1972, 2023, Krueger assembles prominent gay liberation publications, inside a wooden box with a lit candle - a memorial to the lives lost, battles fought, and the history that, despite its relative proximity, can feel slippery in our memory.

Jen Everett creates photographic, sonic, and sculptural works that explore kinship, familial dynamics, queer experience, and black interiority. Her work is rooted in an interest in rupture and honoring the way it affects black life. In her photographic works, Everett uses vernacular and family photographs to reconfigure images by doubling or tripling a photograph, isolating and amplifying a detail, or collaging materials to create an effect of abundance. This presentation will include works from her new series Queer Cosmologies, which highlights Black Lesbian presence in the archives, alongside a new work from her ongoing series Unheard Sounds, which assembles vintage and contemporary sonic objects - speakers, records, radios - to consider knowledge production and transmission as it manifests through gestures of collection and arrangement.

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Ryan Patrick Krueger creates photographic and collage-based works that utilize memory - collective and individual - to recover a lost visual history of queer intimacy. They source photographs, everyday objects, and queer publications, both pre- and post-Stonewall, to memorialize implied and overt moments of connection. This presentation will include a series of wall-based collage works. In Come Out, 1972, 2023, Krueger assembles prominent gay liberation publications, inside a wooden box with a lit candle - a memorial to the lives lost, battles fought, and the history that, despite its relative proximity, can feel slippery in our memory.

Jen Everett creates photographic, sonic, and sculptural works that explore kinship, familial dynamics, queer experience, and black interiority. Her work is rooted in an interest in rupture and honoring the way it affects black life. In her photographic works, Everett uses vernacular and family photographs to reconfigure images by doubling or tripling a photograph, isolating and amplifying a detail, or collaging materials to create an effect of abundance. This presentation will include works from her new series Queer Cosmologies, which highlights Black Lesbian presence in the archives, alongside a new work from her ongoing series Unheard Sounds, which assembles vintage and contemporary sonic objects - speakers, records, radios - to consider knowledge production and transmission as it manifests through gestures of collection and arrangement.

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