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Lake Gallery

April 14 - May 27, 2011

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661 Divisadero Street San Francisco, CA 94117
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Marginalia Herald (detail), 2010, woven offset printer's waste
Opening reception April 14, 7-9:30pm In his most recent body of work, Anthony Ryan has created a series of woven collages using paper strips that are by-products of industrial printing processes. Off-cuts and test patterns from the margins of product packaging and corporate collateral act as raw material and blueprint, dictating the work’s final shape through their own formal logic and systems of arrangement determined by the artist. In these paper pieces redolent of textiles and grid-based abstract painting, Ryan fashions sometimes-dizzying explorations of pattern and arrangement that conjure op-art and color theory experiments. By employing materials that are vestigial artifacts of the technologies of reproduction the work seeks to decode a dialect embedded in the DNA of our visual culture. Anthony Ryan is an artist, teacher, and museum preparator. Anthony was a 2008 winner of a Graduate Fellowship Award at Headlands Center for the Arts and in 2010 was nominated for a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. He currently works as a Lecturer (teaching printmaking) at San Francisco State University and as an Exhibition Preparator at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. 661 Divisadero @ Grove Entrance on Grove Mon - Sun 11am - 5pm