Paul Ryan: the sun that never sets
September 7 - October 4, 2015
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Current Season
- Minjeong An: Private Pictograph
- Locating the Law
- Daphne Arthur: Fragile Intangibilities
- Joey Fauerso: In a Classroom
- Emma Steinkraus: Pas de Deux
- Matt Eich: Sunlight, Shadow, Rainbow / Grace Notes
- 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition
- Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey: This Earthen Door and The Blue of Distance
- Past Seasons
see if you agree (detail), 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 64 x 90 in. (5 panels)
About the Exhibition
As an abstract painter, ’s studio practice combines a natural attentiveness to formal problems with a reflective consideration of conceptual ideas. In his new work he is developing a visual vocabulary derived from the forms of everyday commercial packaging-the unfolded shapes of the cardboard cartons and containers that hold the stuff of our necessities and desires, and the eccentric visual structures that occur when their silhouettes are combined within the picture plane. Ryan is equally interested in the conceptual implications of his source material, which have inherent associations with desire, exchange, acquisition, and consumption--activating the paintings as visual metaphors for the operations and effects of late capitalism. Paul Ryan is a painter and art critic living and working in Staunton, Virginia where he is a Professor of Art at Mary Baldwin College. He has been a contributing editor for Art Papers Magazine since 1990 and is represented by Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.
Staniar Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm during the Academic Year (unless otherwise noted for special exhibitions)