By Locust Projects

Locust Projects is pleased to announce that artist Ron Terada has been selected to create a new commissioned work for Art on the Move, part of an ongoing public commissions initiative, by the project’s guest curator Dominic Molon, Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.  Terada, a Vancouver-based artist, uses text and various forms of institutional and cultural communication such as signs, posters, and soundtrack albums to create works that are distinctly personal and biographical though seemingly detached.  His two-part project for Art on the Move continues his ongoing series, Soundtrack for an Exhibition (begun in 2000), and comprises a free, limited-edition album available at Locust Projects including songs of subjective importance for Terada, and taxi tops featuring the titles of the songs on the album in English and Spanish.

Art on the Move, commissioned artist projects in public spaces around Miami: Ron Terada curated by Dominic Molon

Members of the community are encouraged to share sightings of Terada’s taxi tops by using the following hastags on their social media platforms:

#AOTMTerada #LocustAOTM #LocustTerada

The albums suggest a sense of movement from the gallery, through the streets, and into the homes of audience members around the Miami area while prompting consideration of how the function of “soundtracks” in films to establish a tone and atmosphere within which the protagonists fictionally exist might be translated into both art and everyday situations.  Displacing the album’s evocative titles onto the taxi tops with no indication of their rationale or context, creates both a disruptive dissonance with the expected information on those structures –typically advertisements for strip clubs or legal aid—and a reminder of the way that popular music affects us in the least expected and often public places.

Art on the Move features specially commissioned artists’ projects in public spaces around Miami. Through this effort, new work by artists such as Angel Otero, Nicole Eisenman, Agustina Woodgate and Liam Gillick has appeared on billboards, bus shelters and bus backs throughout the county.

ABOUT RON TERADA Ron Terada lives and works in Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions include Jack (2014), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Being There (2011), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Who I Think I Am (2010-2011), which travelled among the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. His work has also been included in a number of group exhibitions including: Home Sweet Home (2014), Dazibao, Montreal; When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The Unseen (2012), 4th Guangzhou Triennial; Without (2012), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels; An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art (2012), Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan; Material World (2012), Art Gallery of Halifax; Art Histories (2012), VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal; Nature (2011), Toronto Digital Billboard Project; Power Alone, Act V (2010), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Gallery, Galerie, Galleria (2010), Norma Magione Gallery, Turin.  Terada was a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Canada Council for the Arts (2006); and the VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation (2004); and was nominated for a Sobey Art Award (2007). Terada is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

ABOUT DOMINIC MOLON Dominic Molon is the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design), Providence, Rhode Island.  He previously served as the Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) St. Louis (2010-2013) and as Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago (1994-2010).  He has organized numerous exhibitions, including solo presentations of Leslie Hewitt (2012) and David Noonan (2011) (at CAM), and Susan Philipsz (2011), Liam Gillick (2009), and Wolfgang Tillmans (2006) (at the MCA), and the group shows “Place is the Space” (with architect Brad Cloepfil) (2013) (at CAM), “Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out” (2010), and “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967” (2007) (at the MCA). He is currently organizing a mid-career survey of British artist Martin Boyce to open at the RISD Museum in October 2015.