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① Artwork:
Quickening
This painting depicts a vessel in the midst of change and transformation. Flowers, eyes and other symbols bloom and then disappear within this amorphous receptacle, echoing the artist’s own intuitive and fluid approach to artmaking.
While painting, Ryan Fenchel thinks with his hands while listening to the evolving work describe its essence. Drawing from alchemy, ikebana, art histories, mythologies and natural science, the artist's work is a cosmos without hierarchy that generates unfamiliar values and interpretations.
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③ Artist:
Ryan Fenchel thinks with his hands to create paintings that depict ever-becoming vessels, evolutionary states that mirror the artist's intuitive process. The artist draws inspiration from alchemy and ikebana—the Japanese art of flower arranging—as well as art histories, mythologies and the natural sciences. Fenchel’s work is a cosmos without hierarchy that generates unfamiliar values and interpretations.
BIO:
Ryan Fenchel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1981. The artist received an MFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a BFA in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.
Solo exhibitions of Fenchel’s work have taken place at: The Landing in Los Angeles, California; Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Illinois; Dan Devening Projects in Chicago, Illinois; and Tew Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia.
Group exhibitions that have shown Fenchel’s work have taken place in: New York City; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; Tokyo, Japan; Berlin, Germany; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fenchel lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
