Lady of Turquoise Country

"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)