Cordy ryman biography sample
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Engaging in an astute dialogue with minimalist and constructivist ideologies, Cordy Ryman's (b. , New York) work oftentimes operates both architecturally and organically. By employing elements of site-specificity, shadow, raw materiality and dimension, he masterfully creates "specific objects" that utilize environment as an extension of surface. Paint, wood, Velcro swatches, staples, metal and debris playfully conjoin as self-referential qualities that allude to process and materiality, while a deliberate use of tonal planes and gradation bespeak a progressive variation of color-field aesthetics.
Ryman received his BFA - with honors - from the School of Visual Fine Arts/Art Education (NY). In addition to solo shows in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Munich, Brussels and Gilleleje, he has been featured in exhibitions at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS), P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (NY) and Museum of Contemporary Art (FL). His work has been acquired for the public collections of Microsoft (WA), Museum of Contemporary Art (FL), Raussmuller Collection (Basel), RD Merrill (WA), Rubell Family Collection (FL), Speyer Family Collection (NY) and the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection (WA).
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Cordy Ryman
Painting on amalgamations of salvaged wood, Gorilla glue, sawdust, velcro, and scrap metal, Cordy Ryman creates works that inject bright color and imperfection into the Minimalist exploration of material and form. A son of Robert Ryman—the Minimalist painter who famously limited himself to a white square format—the younger Ryman is equally fascinated with the distinctions between art as object and as surface, but has loosened the previous generation’s rules. For example,
Windowboxing
() is a site-specific installation of white rectangular window boxes hung on a wall whose rigid geometry is playfully undermined by the artist compiling them into a sloppy pyramid formation. Additionally, the empty interior of the frames are filled with shadows of fluorescent pink, yellow, and blue as the painted inner sides reflect against the wall. In a dance initiated by his found and recycled materials, the artist builds each piece by responding to what already exists within it. According to the artist, his post-minimalist approach is not just about the inherent qualities of the materials he uses, but, “all about reactions of one kind or another—reactions to elements within the materials, between different combined elements within a work, between the materials an