Cheralyn Ryan: Woven Like a Carpet

Halifax artist Cheralyn Ryan employs a variety of painting techniques - staining, layering, calligraphic brushwork, stencils - to achieve canvasses with rich, colour-saturated surfaces.  Hung vertically, they recall the visions of paradisal gardens typical in many oriental rug designs, yet they remain quite abstract, echoing the artist's sense of underlying patterns and mathematical structures in nature.  This exhibition was our fifteenth in our Front Alcove Series, intended to provide the opportunity for local (often emerging) artists to exhibit smaller, more recent bodies of work.

Artist(s)

Cheralyn Ryan

Publication Credits

Susan Gibson Garvey, Cheralyn Ryan

Subject(s)

Nova Scotia, Painting

Year

1999

ISBN

0-7703-0675-6

Format

bi-fold brochure

Language

English

Exhibition Title

Cheralyn Ryan: Woven Like a Carpet, 25 June - 15 August 1999