W ILL RYMAN
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W ILL RYMAN
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
WILL RYMAN
NEW YORK
SEPTEMBER 9 – OCTOBER 22, 2022
CHART is pleased to announce WillRyman:NewYork,NewYork, opening Friday, September 9th at 74 Franklin Street, New York. The exhibition will be on view through October 22nd. Marking the artist’s second solo presentation at CHART since 2020, New York, New York will span the gallery’s two floors. It is the largest body of Ryman’s work to be exhibited in his hometown since 2015.
In New York, New York Ryman presents his ode to the city through a series of vignettes comprising over 10 new painted clay works and a limited-edition bronze. The works vary in scale, from the immense to the diminutive, and are set against the backdrop of sidewalks, park benches, and subway seats. Ryman’s metropolitan 3-D landscape includes not only figures but overflowing garbage cans, roaming pigeons, and a wild rose bed—an allusion to the artist’s iconic series The Roses that first transformed Midtown Manhattan in 2011. These roses are more intimate in scale as are the artist’s new pigeons which he created from clay and nails, the same material he used to build his monumental Bird (2012), a 12’ tall sculpture in the permanent collection of The Broad Museum in East Lansing, Michigan.
Ryman, a native New Yorker, began his career as a playwright deeply influenced by Absurdist Theater. For twenty years he has lived and worked in a building on the Bowery, the storied lower Manhattan thoroughfare that has been the subject of film, photography, and literature for generations. In 2003, he self-produced “a play without actors” at his Bowery space, populated with his handmade papier mâché sculptures. This led to his first gallery exhibition and since then, his work has been the subject of over 60 solo and group shows. Now, almost twenty years later, the artist returns to the handmade staging of his early work and during the making of this exhibition, he began to write a theater piece again.
New York, New York presents a tableau familiar to any New Yorker. Ryman gives shape in sculptural form to both the physical and the unconscious of urban daily life and expresses his profound attachment to the city.
This exhibition will coincide with ongoing presentations of Ryman’s public sculpture in other parts of New York state. In Ghent, Art Omi is currently featuring PacLab (2017) and Sisyphus (2017). These large-scale works were first exhibited in 2018 to critical acclaim at Parc de la Villette in Paris’ 19th arrondissement. On Long Island, LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton features a recently cast 24’ tall rose.
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A monograph of Will Ryman’s work is currently in production. With a foreword by Courtney J. Martin, art historian and Paul Mellon Director of the Yale Center for British Art, an essay by author Eleanor Heartney, and a conversation with Joe Fig, artist and Department Head of Fine Arts/Visual Studies at Ringling College of Art and Design, this publication will be a survey of twenty years of his art.
Will Ryman (b. 1969) lives and works in New York. His museum exhibitions and public art installations include WillRyman:LaVillette, Parc de La Villette, Paris (2018); Cadillac, College for Creative Studies, Detroit (2017); Bird, Flatiron Plaza, New York (2013); Desublimation of the Rose, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables (2011); Rose, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011); The Roses, Park Avenue, New York (2011); and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2005). Will Ryman’s work is in the collections of numerous museums and sculpture gardens worldwide including The New Orleans Museum of Art; The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville,TN; The National Academy of Design, New York; 21c Museum Foundation, Louisville; and The Margulies Collection, Miami.
Photo by Weston Wells
NYPD, 2022 wood, steel, mesh, resin, paint, chains, locks, buttons 92 x 30 x 38 inches (233.7 x 76.2 x 96.5 cm)
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Utopia, 2022
steel, resin, aluminum wire, paint, newspaper clippings
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Popcorn, 2022 steel, nails, resin, paint, copper wire, wood, screws 16 3/4 x 48 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches (42.5 x 123.2 x 123.2 cm)
TheHipHopStreets, 2022 wood, metal, resin, paint, wire, paper 38 1/2 x 32 x 25 inches (97.8 x 81.3 x 63.5 cm) 29
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Pigeons,
2022 screws, nails, resin, steel, wood 6 1/2 x 24 x 9 inches (16.5 x 61 x 22.9 cm)
The Worrier, 2022 painted bronze
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Us A Shot, 2022
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wood, bronze, resin, brass bullets, steel chain, feathers, burlap, paint, taxidermy pigeon, nails, copper wire, polyurethane foam, newspaper clippings 85 x 74 x 49 inches (215.9 x 188 x 124.5 cm)
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Soothsayer, 2022 resin, taxidermy pheasant, feathers, fiberglass, nidacore, wire mesh, steel, paint, alarm clock, brass, rope, polyurethane foam 77 x 49 x 113 1/2 inches (195.6 x 124.5 x 288.3 cm)
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CinderellaStory, 2022
resin, wood, wire, steel, nails, brass, paint, carpet, sneakers
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resin, mesh, paint, screws, hose, plastic 65 x 53 1/2 x 69 inches (165.1 x 135.9 x 175.3 cm)
The Exterminator, 2008/2022 wood,
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WILL RYMAN
Born 1969, New York
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITONS
2022 New York, New York, CHART, New York, NY
2020 Dinner III, CHART, New York, NY
2018 WillRyman, Parc de La Villette, Paris, France
2017 WillRyman:Cadillac, CCS Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detriot, MI
2015 TWO ROOMS, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2013 AMERICA, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Bird, outdoor installation, Flatiron Plaza 23rd St. and Broadway, New York, NY
2012 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY 65th Street, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2011 WillRyman:DesublimationoftheRose, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL
TheSagamoreArtCollection, The Sagamore Hotel, Miami, FL
The Rose, outdoor installation, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. The Roses, outdoor public art installation, Park Avenue Malls 57-67th Street, New York, NY
2010 Roses, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY
2009 ANewBeginning, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY WillRyman:TheBed, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2008 Wall Street, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY
2007 TuesdayAfternoon, Marlborough
Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York, NY
Private Moments, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2005
2004
Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 New Exhibitions, Marguiles Warehouse, Miami, FL
2020
2019
The Fields, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
RightsofSpring, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
AnnecyPaysagesFestival, Annecy, France
2017 Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale
ThatSocietyHastheCapacitytoDestroy, Part 1, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
OpulentLandscapes, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY
SingularObject, 53W53 Gallery, New York, NY
2016 12 x 12 exhibition, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2015 AnxiousSpaces:InstallationasCatalystII, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2014
Prospect3Biennial, New Orleans, LA
Bloodflames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
SpacedOut:MigrationToTheInterior, Red Bull Studios, New York, NY
2013
2014
ComeTogether, Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Prospect3Biennial, New Orleans, LA
Bloodflames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery,
2012 SculptedMatter, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY PeekskillProjectV, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
DesignLovesArt, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2011 FriezeArtFairSculpturePark, Regent’s Park, London, UK Verbier3DFoundationSculpture Festival, Verbier, Switzerland
The Tribeca Film Festival Art Awards Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2010 Run and Tell That: New Work from New York, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY Realism: Selections from the Martin Z.MarguliesCollection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Selections from the Saatchi Collection, The Saatchi Gallery at Ipswich Art School, Ipswich, UK
TheSummerBazaar:FunctionalObjects inContemporaryArt, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY ContemporaryFigurativeSculpture, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY natural renditions, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY Think Pink, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2009 PartyAtChris’sHouse, curated by Phong Bui, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York, NY
The Black & White Show, Collective Hardware, New York, NY
TheShapeofThingstoCome, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK ReconfiguringtheBodyinAmericanArt, 1820-2009, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2008 IWon’tGrowUp, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
TangledUpInYou:Connecting,Coexisting, andConceivingIdentity, 21c. Museum Foundation, Louisville, KY
2007 Sculpture:Selectionsfromthecollectionof MartinZ.Margulies, Margulies Warehouse, Miami, FL
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
SummerGroupShow, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY WitandWhimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Sobre el Humor, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
2006 New Work, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York, NY Blender, Sundarum Tagore, New York, NY SanctuaryandtheScrum, Black and White Art Gallery, New York, NY SummerGroupShow, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Daniel Hesidence, WillRyman, Tracy Williams LTD., New York, NY
Flower Power, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY
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