Ryan and Trevor Oakes

Hello, Stay tuned for art projects from our studio.

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Always inspiring to see your groundbreaking work, David! #DavidHockney #SomethingNewInPainting @pacegallery 📷#MichaelBenson

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Extra! Extra! Read all about it. Thanks Lawrence Weschler for this article in New York Magazine's current issue about @oakes_r and my NYPL project, in advance of our upcoming exhibition at The Armory Show in Ronald Feldman Gallery's booth. . . #LawrenceWeschler @thearmoryshow #ArmoryShow #TheArmoryShow #TheArmoryShow2018 @feldmangallery #FeldmanGallery #RonaldFeldmanFineArts @nypl #NYPL #NewYorkMagazine (at New York, New York)

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Time passing through the seasons. (at Central Park Manhatan)

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Like drawing every hair on a single human's head individually, approx 100,000 blue dashes comprise the sky in the Central Park drawing. (at Central Park Manhatan)

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Like drawing every hair on a single human's head individually, approx 100,000 blue dashes comprise the sky in the Central Park drawing. (at Central Park Manhatan)

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New concave drawing in process. (Detail) @paulcossu hard at work. (at New York, New York)

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New concave drawing in process. (at New York, New York)

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Evergreen Cemetary in Early Spring (at Queens, New York)

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NC Pioneer Trail at the height of the photosynthetic season. (at Marshall, North Carolina)

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@oakes_r and I sat still through a 2hr exposure to create these experimental pinhole photo portraits. We seemingly sit waist deep in a black mist tho it was actually daylight across the floor. #reciprocityfailure f#408 (at Long Island City)

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Matchstick sculpture #stereogram for free viewing :>) Concave #pinhole photo. #negative (at Long Island City)

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Concave #pinhole of the LIC studio. #negative laid flat. F#408 @oakes_r (at Long Island City)

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Concave #pinhole photo of the the LIC studio. #negative laid flat @staggeringbee (at Long Island City)

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#tbt to when NY was cold. 🎥@gerridavis @bohrerm (at New York)

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#tbt to Father's Day. Drew this portrait of our dad (aka Lare) a few weeks ago when he was in town. (at Long Island City)

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One week remains to view @oakes_r and my show @massmoca , Explode Every Day: An Inquiry Into the Phenomena of Wonder Curated by Denise Markonish and Sean Foley. #massmoca (at MASS MoCA)

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I made up this new trick today. It's sort of a hybrid of spinning devil stick, which I was passionate about in middle school, and learning to flip my pen in high school. In the early days of the fingerboarding people put a lot of emphasis on mimicking the same tricks foot skateboarders did. Even the grip tape mimicked foot skateboards, and was effectively an emory board. A few years later they realized soft foam actually grips finger pads far better, and what's called "professional grip tape" entered the market. Boards also became proportionally wider than foot skateboards, as that's what fits better with the hand. Similarly, I like tricks unique to the capacities one has with their fingers, their hand, their wrist, and arm. For instance height works differently. One can ollie 20 times the length of the board, do grinds upside down on the bottom edge of cabinets, and ride up walls and table legs. It's a different skatepark. 🎥@gerridavis #slowmo #fingerboarding #differentskatepark (at New York, New York)