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Follow the Flow from California to London
In 2014, California artist Linda Ryan was
faced with preparing for an upcoming exhibition with her painting hand in a
cast. Rather than cancel, she chose to
move away from the abstract figurative work she is known for and challenged
herself with creating art using gravity, flow and Liquitex Pouring Medium, to
capture luminous “stopped” movement.
Ryan found the process and results so
exciting that she reduced her employed hours in order to focus on her art, and
is taking 20+ new pour paintings to exhibit at the Parallax Art Fair in London
the last weekend of July.
“It’s a bit challenging,” says Ryan, “The
medium is opaque while it’s workable. You have to have a good visual memory to
recall what is on the under-layers, understand how your pigments react in the
medium and with each other, and stop the movement at just the right time to
create a strong composition.” But, she
adds, when it works, they come alive with motion and depth. And when it doesn’t work? Ryan adds another layer, or two, or three, or
sands them down and starts again.
Ryan will be traveling to London to exhibit
Flow 2.0, her newest pour art, at the Parallax Art Fair at the Old Chelsea Town
Hall, King’s Road, the last weekend in July and exhibits at ArtSanDiego in
early November.
Ryan is an award–winning artist whose work is
in collections across the States and in Europe. In 2014, Ryan received an Arts
Leadership Award through her County’s Arts Commission. She has created and
managed many arts events and exhibitions in the East San Francisco Bay Area,
and has managed the Bothwell Arts Center, a project of the Livermore Valley
Performing Arts Center, for 9 years.
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Contact:
Linda Ryan, #1.925.337.0567