ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint as a means of exploring color and technology and my work is a conversation on how information is perceived in the spaces where the physical and digital worlds meet. My sculpture works are discrete groupings of found and collected objects; this work is concerned with consumption, mass production, and the emotional value we place on inanimate objects. When I was a kid I loved collecting discarded items like small toys, cheap jewelry, and old keys, and something about that has stuck with me ever since.

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BIOGRAPHY

 

Ryan Garvey (b. 1981) lives and works in NYC and Stockbridge, MA. His solo exhibitions include Ryan Garvey's Lower East Side at Lynch Tham Gallery in Manhattan, and Finders/Keepers at Bronx Art Space. Ryan's group exhibitions include Portrait of Zuck at Galerie Manqué, Brooklyn; State Property at Andrew Freedman, Bronx; and The Other Under Side at Bronx Art Space, Bronx. Ryan's sculpture and installation works can be seen in Brooklyn and Yonkers, NY; Cambridge, MA; and San Francisco. Ryan earned his BFA in Printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2006.