RichardRyan STILL MOVIES
RichardRyan STILL MOVIES
JUNE 8 - JULY 22. 2012
LewAllenGalleries Railyard: 1613 Paseo De Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 tel 505.988.3250 Downtown: 125 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 tel 505.988.8997 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com cover: Butterfly Series 3, 2007, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 39” x 39”
Richard Ryan’s gestural photo drawings explore the convergence of universal chaos and order through an inventive process of digital photography, single-frame isolation, and the utilization of animation software. The resulting creations appear compressed and kinetic, like bundles of aesthetic DNA about to explode. As Ryan notes, “My work attempts to capture chaotic energy in constant struggle. I feel everything moving and changing all at once, both past and present happening now. Like a researcher accelerating atoms into one another at the speed of light, I both observe the results and discover another world of fleeting motion and change.”
Ryan applies various “mechanical” techniques to create entirely unprecedented and vitally original works that seem to come from pure energy. Ryan’s extraordinarily kinetic images suggest elements of mechanized motion and microorganic dynamism that occur to the viewer simultaneously as enigmatic and familiar. He begins his process by taking hundreds of digital photographs of objects as diverse as stained glass cathedral windows or the polychromed wings of butterflies. He then scans them and manipulates them with animation software, choosing his subject matter from individual frames; finally the composition is printed and mounted to Dibond. Ryan’s keen ability to recreate a moment in time that’s typically invisible to the naked eye has earned his subject matter comparisons to unraveled movie film, primordial microcosms and hurtling asteroids. This simultaneous sense of expansion and compression suffuses Ryan’s work with an inexplicably beautiful quality of distortion and frozen motion, resulting in distinctively energetic compositions that both interact with us and perform for us. Ryan received his BA from the University of California, Irvine and his MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has exhibited widely in major juried competitions throughout the United States and his work is incorporated in a growing number of private and public collections.
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Butterfly Series 1, 2007, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 39� x 39�
Auf Wiedersehen (diptych), 2007,archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 79� x 78�
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Tokyo Tower, 2009, archival pigmented ink print on archival canvas on dibond, 82� x 59�
Sainte-Chapelle, 2006, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 40� x 60�
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Sainte-Chapelle 1, 2006, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 48� x 48�
Eastern State Prison 1, 2004, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 32� x 21�
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Eastern State Prison 2, 2004, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 32� x 21�
Eastern State Prison 5, 2004, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 32� x 21�
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Eastern State Prison 4, 2004, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 32� x 21�
Eastern State Prison 6, 2004, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 32� x 21�
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Rittenhouse Square 30, 2006, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 30� x 30�
Rittenhouse Square 10, 2006, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 30� x 30�
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Rittenhouse Square 20, 2006, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 30� x 30�
Tectonic Series: Spruce Hover, 2007, archival pigmented ink print mounted on dibond, 30� x 30�
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Tectonic Series: Spruce Grind, 2007, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 30� x 30�
Tectonic Series: Spruce Float, 2007, archival pigmented ink print mounted on dibond, 30� x 30�
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Tectonic Series: Spruce Inch, 2007, archival pigmented ink print mounted to dibond, 30� x 30�
Tectonic Series: Spruce Creep, 2007, archival pigmented ink print mounted on dibond, 30� x 30�
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Railyard: 1613 Paseo De Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 tel 505.988.3250 Downtown: 125 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 tel 505.988.8997 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com