Victoria Ryan
Taos, NM
Clearing
Oil on canvas
48” x 48”
2018
$5400
About
I spent most of my life living from Southern California to the the Redwood Forest in Humboldt County, moving to Taos New Mexico in 2016. I am a career artist, a painter working in various media, soft pastel, oils and acrylics in earnest. I have always painted and received my BFA from California State University in Long Beach in 1982 after spending a few years at both Art Center College and Otis Art Institute. That all seems like it was very long ago. I have taught and I have coached and I ultimately return to the studio. I am grateful that I have always been able to be a painter and have had a varied career that has included a lengthy list of wonderful collectors and galleries along the way. After all those years in California it is this latest phase creating in studios in Taos and Denver that has me moving again into new directions with my abstract landscapes. What a gift to be a working artist in these spectacular places.
Artist Statement
With studios in Taos, New Mexico and Denver, Colorado my most recent work over the last several years on canvas and paper explores the physical and emotional landscapes I experience moving through these disparate places and spaces. Ultimately rooted in abstraction I create visual stories that spring forward from the outer world and are enmeshed with my highly emotional and psychic responses. It has always been this way. By intuitively layering purposeful marks, color, textures and line the striving is for a sense of balance and beauty within a chaotic world. In New Mexico, specially in Taos and surrounding area I am always responding to the landscape and the architecture and the weaving of the land’s emotions. My painting practice is ever evolving.
Art from Victoria Ryan in other TAAC exhibitions