Ryan Sullivan

Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London

 Ryan Sullivan’s paintings reflect a dynamic and constantly-evolving mode of abstraction, with each painting standing as a physical record of its own creation — both embodying and describing material flows and the act of painting. Sullivan’s works have been praised for their assertion of painting’s enduring critical importance and potential. His recent body of works are rendered using fast-drying resin, mixed with pigment. Sullivan works swiftly, brushing and layering colored resins in a flat mold — a process commonly used in sculpture. Through this method the final composition is revealed only once the medium is set and the painting ‘de-molded;’ their different elements bearing witness to a mental process that is semi-conscious and subject to intuition.

Ryan Sullivan lives in New York and has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the ICA Miami, Miami, and has been included in group exhibitions at notable institutions including: The High Line, New York; Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York; and MoMA/PS1, New York. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Hammer Museum; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.