Lisa Ryan

Collage Artist / Charlottesville, VA

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  Portrait IV , 9” x 12”, 2018

Portrait IV, 9” x 12”, 2018

  Portrait with green , 9” x 11”, 2018

Portrait with green, 9” x 11”, 2018

  Portrait VII , 9” x 11”, 2018

Portrait VII, 9” x 11”, 2018

  Portrait V , 9” x 12”, 2018

Portrait V, 9” x 12”, 2018

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  Improbable Figures Series,  2017.

Improbable Figures Series, 2017.

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 Improbable Figures Series, 2016

Improbable Figures Series, 2016

  Threes, Legs & Structures , 2017. 

Threes, Legs & Structures, 2017. 

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 Improbable Figures Series, 2016

Improbable Figures Series, 2016

 Improbable Figures Series, 2016

Improbable Figures Series, 2016

  Improbable Figures Series,  2016.

Improbable Figures Series, 2016.

  Improbable figures series , 2017.

Improbable figures series, 2017.

  Improbable figures series , 2017.

Improbable figures series, 2017.

  Improbable figures series , 2017.

Improbable figures series, 2017.

  Improbable figures series , 2017.

Improbable figures series, 2017.

 Improbable figures series, 2016

Improbable figures series, 2016

  Improbable figures series , 2017.

Improbable figures series, 2017.

  Improbable Figures Series,  2016.

Improbable Figures Series, 2016.

  Get/Keep Your Shit Together , 2017

Get/Keep Your Shit Together, 2017

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  Portrait IV , 9” x 12”, 2018
  Portrait with green , 9” x 11”, 2018
  Portrait VII , 9” x 11”, 2018
  Portrait V , 9” x 12”, 2018
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.58.36 AM.png
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.59.24 AM.png
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.58.59 AM.png
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.57.55 AM.png
LRyanAfterGeorgia.jpg
IFS008 2.jpg
  Improbable Figures Series,  2017.
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.56.42 AM.png
IFS011.jpg
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.57.38 AM.png
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.55.46 AM.png
 Improbable Figures Series, 2016
  Threes, Legs & Structures , 2017. 
IFS010print.jpg
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.56.22 AM.png
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 9.58.22 AM.png
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 10.01.07 AM.png
Screen Shot 2018-03-18 at 10.01.51 AM.png
 Improbable Figures Series, 2016
 Improbable Figures Series, 2016
  Improbable Figures Series,  2016.
  Improbable figures series , 2017.
  Improbable figures series , 2017.
  Improbable figures series , 2017.
  Improbable figures series , 2017.
 Improbable figures series, 2016
  Improbable figures series , 2017.
  Improbable Figures Series,  2016.
  Get/Keep Your Shit Together , 2017

Some pieces that regularly come to mind as I move ahead creatively. 
1) John Baldessari, Person Holding Head (with Hands to Head), Blue Line, and Two Persons (One with Pointing Hand), 1995

2) Menashe Kadishman, Open Suspense, 1968

3) Eva Hesse, Hang Up, 1966

4) Hank Ehrenfried, Noise: Hhhhhhnnnnhh, 2016

5) Kato Tsubusa, Triangular Plate, c. 1999

6) My own kitchen-table-studio linguini surrealism, 2013
Color form light scale // 22”x28”
Do yourself a favor and listen to cellist @wesswing cover Björk’s “Unravel.” I ♥️ both of these musicians—put them together and ✨👌🏼 Available on Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. The cover art is a sunrise pic Wes shot while flying over the Atlantic. 👌🏼
Iterations/process. Last one is after a blind random shuffle of pieces.
From Bruce Mau’s An Incomplete Manifesto For Growth, #21: “Repeat yourself. If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.”
Revisiting two favorite collages from 2018 to determine what to do again.
Let’s Go Shopping For Something Lilac, 12”x 16”
#collagenuary 🎨♥️
Formal Drain, 14” x 24”
Sotto Forma Di, paper on canvas, 48” x 48”

I created this piece for a group exhibit with large format requirements. Feb. 20 opening at UVA’s Darden Business School-more details to come. 
On process: my original concept (2/10) worked but never felt like enough of a creative push, despite multiple iterations. With discouragement came the reminder to just. keep. going. Start over, ten times. Play. 
Eventually I turned to the paper cutout scraps piled on my floor & realized that I loved these random, colorless shapes more than their inverse images I was working with. It’s quite an about-face creatively but also very instinctive and intuitive. I’m excited to explore this further. 
3-10/10 are some of my fave images & works collected over the last year—informative, in retrospect. (6-Noguchi; 8-Dorothea Rockburne; 9-Tara Donovan; 10-de Kooning)

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