Ryan T Riss

An Expanding Echo, by Ryan Riss @craptical___practical 📍False Front @frontfalse ⏳ Open Saturday’s 12-3 pm and by appointment 🗓️Nov 1 - Dec 7, 2025 Artist statement: “Why the allure of the object? This thing, full of volume, inert, just sitting. I’m not sure, but it has an entrancing pull that reverberates out, it touches me. I guess I’m drawn to the magic in these objects. I can’t quite fully know them, I think I maybe don’t want to know. But yet a specter of their being insists on being seen and felt. So here I am. In love with objects, arranging them, thinking about them and what they mean and how they exist in the world. I think about their different essences, their different modes of presence, their different forms of being-a contour, a color, a drape, a shadow, a hue, a whiff, a smudge, a delight, a fringe, a depth, a ding, a scratch, an oblongness, a wisp, a volume, a spirit. All these parts, or all these versions of presence, they’re here. They seem to delight in conversations with other objects, with me. They reverberate and space-out, and fade and delay and hiss and create a rhythm—an expanding echo.”

Stoked to show some drawings this evening at the opening and then for the month. Proud of these things echoing through the world🌎 Thanks to @frontfalse 🫟 I made a tiny zine for everyone that comes-it had such a lovely poem in it that I think speaks volumes of how I feel about the work, and world. Thanks @hquinnifer 🙏 And @ntrncr will be DJing from the abyss of space time with a special mix they made to Bliss Out too🩸 Kay-if you want to see it I’ll give you a personal tour at any point-and if you want a zine-holler 🧱 *these drawings didn’t make the show but they’re kinda fun-xo

• An Expanding Echo @frontfalse Opening Nov 1 3-6p Very excited to share some drawings

Points of view.

Bowled over by life a bit

What even

Enticed by small things? Discreet arrangements of the objects

I don’t totally know what to say. But here I am. Maybe I’ll figure something out or maybe I won’t🤞