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Joan Ryan
Chicken Little, The Sky Is Falling
oil
45″ x 42″
2022
As a visual artist, I use painting and drawing as a critical language to explore contemporary society, politics and concepts of identity in our modern world. In my most recent works I incorporate a wide variety of images into active layers of color, intensity, and value. These visual elements are combined with historical imagery, cartoons, childhood fairy tales and political iconography. Using visual iconography along with images of everyday life confronts the viewer at an intersection with a broad range of cultural moments.
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Joan Ryan
Fore Fathers at the Wall
oil
45″ x 44″
2020
This painting reflects on the history of immigration, politics of borders of borders and American history
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