RYAN WALLACE

CUSP |April 19-May 26, 2012 | Opening reception: Thursday April 19, 6-8pm
MORGAN LEHMAN GALLERY | 535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY | 212.268.6699

Morgan Lehman is pleased to present Cusp, Ryan Wallace’s second solo show at the gallery. Wallace combines his research and understanding of contemporary sciences, his ability to incorporate and disguise materials in his paintings, and his laborious studio practice to examine how a planar surface stores information much like a screen, printed page or microchip. Wallace’s process based endeavors evoke familiar tropes through art and natural history.

Canvas and sheets of Mylar are layered over collaged elements to create surfaces that appear flat from a distance. Upon closer inspection a drastic and dramatic topography becomes apparent. At times this relief is trapped behind a milky layer, restricted from an unfettered view. In other works the plane is slashed and pulled apart, as if the picture were building or disintegrating, revealing the guts of a painting. Elsewhere this surfeit of information is obliterated and pushed to the edges creating compositions like those of Jo Baer or Robert Ryman, infected with Wallace’s material grit.

This grit appears as mineral formations in Wallace’s trompe l’oeil sculptures. Caught in vitrines at various stages of development these rock groupings speak to the caves of Chauvet and Lascaux, Giuseppe Penone’s river stones and hobbyist, mold makers in garages (rather than studios). This notion of the amateur craftsman as well as “bling” beauty is frequently addressed as the artist looks to free pedestrian materials like auto tints and glitter from their inherent tackiness and breathe an almost transcendent poetry into them.

Ryan Wallace was born in New York City and currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Amagansett, New York. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and a recent recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant as well as the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship. In addition to being represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery his multimedia works have recently been exhibited at Rachel Uffner Gallery, ZieherSmith, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Islip Art Museum, The Torrance Art Museum and The Katzen Arts Center at American University. Wallace’s works are held in prominent public and private collections worldwide.

NEW YORK - NEW TENDENCIES
Marianne Friis Gallery
Michael Bevilacqua, Jane Corrigan, Daniel Heidkamp, Matt Mignanelli, Ryan Wallace

Preview: Thursday 15th of March from 5-10pm
RSVP by March 12 to info@mariannefriisgallery.com +45 88 82 30 29

Prags Boulevard 49, st. Opg. 4 (Back Yard) - 2300 Copenhagen S

HUFFINGTON POST Review

The Portrait Project
Artists and their cadres have long decamped to the Hamptons in the summer, but since the 19th century hundreds of visual artists have called the East End of Long Island, their home, making it one of the longest thriving artist colonies in the United States. From Winslow Homer to Andy Warhol, artists have flocked to the South Fork for well over a century, drawn here by its art world, conviviality, the long Atlantic coastline and, of course its proximity to New York City. With the keen eye of British photographer Richard Fousler, The Portrait Project, curated by Janet Goleas, celebrates some of the artists, curators and critics that have left their mark here–the people whose lives and work have helped define the cultural fabric of Long Island’s East End.

RYAN WALLACE & CHRIS DUNCAN
Transmission Lines
2.1.12 - 3.1.12
Cooper Cole Gallery
1161 Dundas Street West
TORONTO, ON M6J 1X3
CANADA
INFO@COOPERCOLEGALLERY.COM
WWW.COOPERCOLEGALLERY.COM
+1 647 .347 .3316

THE BONEYARD PROJECT: RETURN TRIP
curated by Eric Firestone, Carlo McCormick & Viejas del Mercado
January 28-May 27, 2012
Opening Reception January 28, 6-11pm
PIMA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
6000 East Valencia Road, Tucson, AZ 85756
520.574.0462
boneyardproject2012@gmail.com

including: Dan Colen, Peter Dayton, Jameson Ellis, Erik Foss, Juan James, Richard Prince, Kenny Scharf, Andrew Shoultz, Shelter Serra, Ryan Wallace, Eric White and many more…

SPREAD THE WORD Mark Moore Gallery

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A one-night exhibition held on December 17th, 2011 at Mark Moore Gallery, “Spread the Word” will showcase works by over 80 contemporary artists starting below $100 – with special emphasis on local talent – to raise funds for 826LA!
Founded by celebrated novelist, Dave Eggers, 826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 years old with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. By providing after-school tutoring, evening and weekend workshops, in-school tutoring, help for English-language learners, and assistance with student publications, 826LA is a pioneering non-profit focused on youth literacy, creativity and fostering unique voices in the arts.

THIS PLACE IN TIME
09.16 - 10.08, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, September 16 at 7:00pm - October 9 at 7:00pm
Cooper Cole Gallery
1161 Dundas St. W
Toronto, ON

Ben Oakley, Cleon Peterson, Henry Gunderson, Jenn Sciarrino, Jimmy Limit, Marissa Textor, Mirak Jamal, Ryan Travis Christian, Ryan Wallace, Sara Cwynar, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel

Whether physical, social, cultural, or philosophical, the concept of “space” has obsessed humankind for centuries. Within the field of visual art, an interest in space has been a prominent thread in the generation of creators emergent from the 1970s through to the 1980s. The artists assembled in This Place in Time have each invested in the boundless, definition-evading idea of “space”. Not only does the content of these works focus on unpicking the attendant theme, but also the variety of media on view allow audience members to question how subjectivity plays out in the space defined by the plane of the page, the surface of a sculpture, and the interstitial areas between.

RBPMW FELLOWS: Brandon Cox, Monique Schubert and Ryan Wallace
August 4 - August 18, 2011
Opening: Thursday, August 4th 2011, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Blackburn 20|20
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th St, Fl 5, New York, NY 10018 
646.416.6226

FLAG DAY
June 15-September 4
curated by Janet Goleas
Islip Art Musuem
Ivin Ballen, Patrick Brennan, Mary Carlson, Amanda Church, Peter Dayton,
Carla Edwards, Jameson Ellis, Jorge Fick, Veronique Leriche Fischetti, Joe Fyfe, David Gamble, William Graef, Priscilla Heine, Christopher K. Ho, Darren Jones, Michael Konrad, Stephen Maine, Christa Maiwald, Karyn Mannix, Joe Nanashe, Gabriele Raacke, Lynn Richardson, John Salvest, Matthew Satz, Mary Schiliro, Andrew Schoultz, Bob Seng, Drew Shiflett, Mike Solomon, Susannah Stern, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Banks Violette, Ryan Wallace