Victoria Ryan

My most recent series of paintings in acrylic, acrylic pen and polymers on canvas and board are a continued exploration of an abstracted view of the New Mexico landscape, while my inner psyche soars along with layers of energetic frequency. I am increasingly sensitive and tuned in to the subtle and sometimes coarse fluctuations in the resonance that is existence. A loosely held grid framework of color and texture and felt space among the chaos that is our earthly experience. I paint that. Looking forward to exploring this with my arsenal of other materials as the year unfolds.

I spent most of my life living from Southern California to the the Redwood Forest in Humboldt County, moving to New Mexico in 2016. I am a career painter working in various media including soft pastel, oils and acrylics. I earned my BFA from California State University in Long Beach in 1982 after spending a few years at both Art Center College and Otis Art Institute. I held a stint as a college art instructor as well as a marketing coach to artists. My work is deeply influenced by the physical landscape as well as my inner psyche. My practice intertwines representational images to fully abstract paintings stemming from landscape origins. After moving to Taos from the coastal redwood forests of Northern California, a shift developed drawn upon these disparate surroundings. My paintings are my response to the high desert landscape while speaking to my own emotional response to the changing energetic field and the chaos of our disappearing democracy. I have had a varied career since the early 1980’s that has included a lengthy list of exhibitions, awards and wonderful collectors both public and private. After all those years in California it is this latest arc creating in studios in Taos and now staring at the Sandia Crest Mountain in Rio Rancho, that has me moving again into new directions with my evolving work. I aspire to create images that are ultimately striking and beautiful in the midst of a chaotic world.

2-D, Drawing, Painting (all materials)