Pull, 2012 - Frank Ryan
About the Work
About Pull
Artist Frank Ryan says about this work, "I was looking at the uncanny, reading about the uncanny in architecture, the supernatural and the normal in the everyday, and that there's an unconscious fear of some kind of an outside ...Read More
Artist Frank Ryan says about this work, "I was looking at the uncanny, reading about the uncanny in architecture, the supernatural and the normal in the everyday, and that there's an unconscious fear of some kind of an outside foreign presence that will somehow inevitably penetrate the safest of domestic spaces. The ordinary becomes the conduit for the supernatural. As I was looking, I often couldn't quite place what was uncanny, but recognized it in lots of different things. There was a sometime self-reflexive quality that made me think about Alberti's Renaissance concept of the window, of painting as window looking into something. I wanted the storefront window to be a metaphor for the picture plane, for pictorial space. The chairs suggest animated presence, but in absence."
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About the Artist
About Frank Ryan
Frank Ryan's practice is highly invested in classical technique, and he uses that technique to question the possibilities of representation and to underline its ...Read More
Frank Ryan's practice is highly invested in classical technique, and he uses that technique to question the possibilities of representation and to underline its inherent voyeurism.
Ryan received an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. He has exhibited in Los Angeles at gallery km, Latned Atsar, Paredon Blanco, and Walter Maciel Gallery, among others. He has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine and New American Paintings, and his work has been written about in LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times.
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Ryan received an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. He has exhibited in Los Angeles at gallery km, Latned Atsar, Paredon Blanco, and Walter Maciel Gallery, among others. He has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine and New American Paintings, and his work has been written about in LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times.
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