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2008-01-24

letters from camp, an exhibition of new paintings and mixed-media works by Professor of Art Paul Ryan will be on view in Mary Baldwin College’s Hunt Gallery February 5–29.

About the New Work

Ryan is an abstract painter and this exhibition reflects a recent shift in the content of his paintings that he began exploring during a sabbatical leave last fall. He continues to be interested in language and its relationship to experience — how our experience constructs and affects language, but also how language affects the way we see and interpret the world. The extremely horizontal format of his paintings, echoing the proportions of sentences or sentence fragments, signifies the way text permeates and mediates most of what we see and understand.

About the Artist

Since 1983 Ryan’s paintings have been featured in solo exhibitions and group shows at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond; Hartell Gallery at Cornell University; 1708 Gallery in Richmond; Holden Gallery at Warren Wilson College; The University Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, among others. Ryan is also an art critic and contributing editor toArt Papers Magazine, an award-winning international publication about contemporary art. His paintings and drawings are in numerous corporate, public, and private collections. He is represented by Reynolds Gallery in Richmond.

Reception Open to Public

A reception for Ryan will be held Tuesday, February 5 at 4:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Hunt Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary work in all media by regionally and nationally recognized artists. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. during the college’s academic year.