Abbey Ryan
5295
2009
Water color
10" x 10"
About Abbey Ryan
Abbey Ryan, American (b. 1979), is a painter interested in the poetics of painting and classical painting as a meditative practice. Painting is a deeply personal daily meditative time for Abbey. The practice of making a small painting a day speaks to her interest in practice, ritual, classical realist still life and trompe l’oeil (French for “fools the eye”) painting.Abbey studied painting with David Leffel at The Art Students League of NY and completed some graduate work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She earned her M.F.A. in Painting from Hunter College, CUNY in 2007. In 2007, Abbey began making small daily paintings for her blog, Ryan Studio. Abbey's work is in over 1800 private and museum collections on six continents. She has exhibited at venues such as Rockwell Museum, NY (awarded Distinguished Achievement in Still Life); Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Tucson Art Museum; John F. Peto Museum, NJ; Pratt Munson Williams Proctor Institute, NY; Georgetown Art Center, TX; Boston Center for the Arts, and others. Philadelphia venues include Fleisher Art Memorial; Crane Arts; Mount Airy Contemporary; Painted Bride Art Center; and Wayne Art Center. Her work has been in O, The Oprah Magazine, Seth Godin’s Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, FOX's Good Day Philadelphia, BoingBoing, Artists & Illustrators, Making It In the Art World, New Markets For Artists, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, and many others. She teaches private painting mentoring online, as well as painting workshops nationally. Her work is represented by Gleason Fine Art in Portland, Maine, and Mason Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia.