Godfather

Boo Ritson, Godfather, Archival Digital Prints, 2006, The Saatchi Gallery

I think I first came across Boo Ritson in Art Review magazine. I am a big fan of her technique, she uses standard household paint and generously decorates her models which she exhibits through photographic portraits. Her process creates a seedy likeness to oil, grease and slime which sparks those connotations as we read her works. Ritson’s means encourages a playful correspondence with identity in the vacuum of American culture. With a surreal poignancy, she ultimately confronts a futility in representation and reality of one self. FUCKING amazing.