KATHLEEN RYAN (B. 1984)
KATHLEEN RYAN (B. 1984)
KATHLEEN RYAN (B. 1984)
KATHLEEN RYAN (B. 1984)
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KATHLEEN RYAN (B. 1984)

Lady of Turquoise Country

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KATHLEEN RYAN (B. 1984)
Lady of Turquoise Country
turquoise, fresh water pearls, carved bone, magnesite, serpentine, Ching Hai jade, mother-of-pearl, abalone, amazonite, amethyst, lapis lazuli, Russian serpentine, pyrite, jasper, agate, onyx, quartz, tiger eye, citrine, fluorite, tree agate and smokey quartz on coated polystyrene
19 ½ x 28 ½ x 17 ½ in. (49.5 x 72.4 x 44.5 cm.)
Executed in 2019.
Provenance
François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2019

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"The sculptures are beautiful and pleasurable, but there’s an ugliness and unease that comes with them,” Ryan says. Indeed, in their opulence and overripeness, the pieces recall the partially consumed fruit of 17th-century Dutch vanitas paintings by artists such as Jan Davidsz de Heem and Willem Claesz Heda, and likewise comment on worldly excess." - Alice Newell-Hanson (A. Newell Hanson, “The Sculptor Making Massive, Moldy Fruits From Gemstones,” The New York Times Style Magazine, September 13, 2019)

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