PERFUMED GARDEN
RYAN WALLACE
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, JUNE 8TH
6:00 - 8:00PM
EXHIBITION DATES:
JUNE 8 - JULY 22, 2023
Romer Young Gallery is pleased to announce, Perfumed Garden, its fourth solo exhibition with New York-based artist Ryan Wallace. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, June 8th, from 6-8pm.
Wallace continues to push his mixed media paintings to conjure an ethereal space between the material and immaterial. The seven new paintings in Perfumed Garden delve deep into shape, line, color and composition while allowing the formal qualities to give way to interpretations that hint at the natural world. Wallace excavates the surface, adding texture and complexity to planes of painted, dyed, cut and inlaid canvas and linen. Reflected light glows from within, captured between fissures of aluminum and copper embedded in the artist’s painterly strata. Shapes appear to repeat, rotate, invert, evolve and flit from one canvas to the next. The synthesis of luminescence, shape and material in Wallace’s work ultimately becomes the wellspring that initiates his self-perpetuating, self-sustaining, and self-determined process. These new paintings are fluid and intuitive, beautiful and raw.
Ryan Wallace was born in 1977 in New York City, and lives and works in Brooklyn and East Hampton, New York. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Solo exhibitions include Susan Inglett Gallery, 56 Henry, New York; Cooper Cole, Toronto. His work has also been exhibited at RISD Museum, Providence, RI; BAM, Brooklyn; The Bunker Artspace, Palm Beach, FL; Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, ME; Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV; Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA; deBoer, Los Angeles, CA; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, among others. Public collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; RISD Museum, Providence; and the Schwartz Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA.
For additional information, please contact the gallery at 415.550.7483 or email info@romeryounggallery.com.
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