PERFUMED GARDEN
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden, 2023, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perfumed Garden V, 2023, Oil, enamel, acrylic, paper, aluminum, copper, linen, canvas, 41.5 x 31.5 inches; 105 x 80 cm
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden V, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden V, 2023
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden V, 2023
Installation view: Perfumed Garden V, 2023
Perfumed Garden VI, 2023, Oil, enamel, acrylic, paper, aluminum, copper, linen, canvas, 41.5 x 31.5 inches; 105 x 80 cm
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden VI, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden VI, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden VI, 2023
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden VI, 2023
Installation view: Perfumed Garden VI, 2023
Perfumed Garden VII, 2023, Oil, enamel, acrylic, aluminum, copper, linen, canvas, 41.5 x 31.5 inches; 105 x 80 cm
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden VII, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden VII, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden VII, 2023
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden VII, 2023
Installation view: Perfumed Garden VII, 2023
Flicker II, 2023, Oil, enamel, acrylic, paper, aluminum, copper, linen, canvas, 56.5 x 36.5 inches; 143.5 x 92.7 cm
Alternate view: Flicker II, 2023
Detail: Flicker II, 2023
Detail: Flicker II, 2023
Detail: Flicker II, 2023
Alternate view: Flicker II, 2023
Installation view: Flicker II, 2023
Perfumed Garden II, 2023, Oil, enamel, acrylic, aluminum, copper, linen, canvas, 25.5 x 20.5 inches; 65 x 52 cm
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden II, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden II, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden II, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden II, 2023
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden II, 2023
Installation view: Perfumed Garden II, 2023
Perfumed Garden III, 2023, Oil, enamel, acrylic, aluminum, copper, linen, canvas, 41.5 x 31.5 inches; 105 x 80 cm
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden III, 2023
Installation view: Perfumed Garden III, 2023
Perfumed Garden IV, 2023, Oil, enamel, acrylic, aluminum, copper, linen, canvas, 41.5 x 31.5 inches; 105 x 80 cm
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden IV, 2023
Detail: Perfumed Garden IV, 2023
Alternate view: Perfumed Garden IV, 2023
Installation view: Perfumed Garden IV, 2023
Romer Young Gallery is pleased to announce, Perfumed Garden, its fourth solo exhibition with New York-based artist Ryan Wallace. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, June 8th, from 6-8pm.
Wallace continues to push his mixed media paintings to conjure an ethereal space between the material and immaterial. The seven new paintings in Perfumed Garden delve deep into shape, line, color and composition while allowing the formal qualities to give way to interpretations that hint at the natural world. Wallace excavates the surface, adding texture and complexity to planes of painted, dyed, cut and inlaid canvas and linen. Reflected light glows from within, captured between fissures of aluminum and copper embedded in the artist’s painterly strata. Shapes appear to repeat, rotate, invert, evolve and flit from one canvas to the next. The synthesis of luminescence, shape and material in Wallace’s work ultimately becomes the wellspring that initiates his self-perpetuating, self-sustaining, and self-determined process. These new paintings are fluid and intuitive, beautiful and raw.
Ryan Wallace was born in 1977 in New York City, and lives and works in Brooklyn and East Hampton, New York. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Solo exhibitions include Susan Inglett Gallery, 56 Henry, New York; Cooper Cole, Toronto. His work has also been exhibited at RISD Museum, Providence, RI; BAM, Brooklyn; The Bunker Artspace, Palm Beach, FL; Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, ME; Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV; Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA; deBoer, Los Angeles, CA; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, among others. Public collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; RISD Museum, Providence; and the Schwartz Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA.
For additional information, please contact the gallery at 415.550.7483 or email info@romeryounggallery.com.