Ryan Sullivan

Exhibited by Galerie Gisela Capitain

Material Watercolor and acrylic on paper

Dimensions 32 x 22 inch

Price $18,000

Status Vetted

About the Work

While traditional painting requires the building of layers from the canvas upwards, Ryan Sullivan’s paintings are made ‘in reverse’ by pouring liquid urethane, often infused with pigment, onto a flat rubber tray lying on the floor. The bucket, not the brush stroke, is the unit of the gesture. The brush just pushes the color around. There is no canvas, only paint petrified into existence.The visual effect is determined by the curing time of each batch, along with the quantities, color choices, and pour lengths - and reminds of geological, interstellar, and microcosmic images.

Ryan Sullivan (b. 1983, New York) studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI. He participated in institutional exhibitions at Le Consortium, Dijon (2024), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen 2022, Highline, New York 2019, GAMeC, Bergamo, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (both 2018), ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami 2015 (solo exhibiton), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (all 2015), Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York 2013, and MoMA/P.S.1, New York 2010 among others.

He will have his first solo exhibition at Zweigstelle Capitain VII - Palazzo Degas, Naples in 2025.

His work is part of public collections such as ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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