-Journeys from Home:
-Beverly Ryan
"I have metaphorically journeyed from the 'home' of a hoped-for feeling of identification with my culture to a place of concern and misgivings. Painting offers me a way to explore this psychological distance in an intuitive manner. Working in oil paint on wooden panels, I aspire to realize an oblique treatment of the following ideas: failure, as a culture, to consider the larger implications of our choices on our planet and on the human spirit; how a comfortable lifestyle can change one's priorities; how the implied safety and harmony in tidy subdivision living feels superficial at best; and how inoculating oneself against the wired/wireless/online culture is nearly impossible."
- Bev Ryan
Beverly Ryan grew up in Pennsylvania. Her interest in art began as a child, as she explored crafts, paper doll making, designing, and sewing clothes for her dolls and later for herself. Her academic education led her into the sciences but she returned to art making by way of hand weaving and textile design during her years at home raising her daughter. A strong interest in working with more personal imagery has become evident in her explorations in printmaking and painting. Nonobjective and figurative painting is her main form of expression today.
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