Ryan Steadman
Moonlight invokes the Romantic landscape tradition while reducing the scene to elemental shapes and expanses of color. Steadman transforms the grandeur of the landscape into something spare, graphic, and distinctly contemporary.
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Signature
Signed by the artist on reverse
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Meet Ryan Steadman
Ryan Steadman's paintings portray the rural rhythms of New York's Great Western Catskills. His graphic, spare compositions depict the family, landscapes, and animals that make up his daily life. Moving between expanses of color and passages of figurative realism, each painting reads as a moment held in suspension. Steadman pairs flat planes of color with built-up surfaces whose physical texture gives the paintings an almost sculptural presence.
Exhibited in
Second Cutting
The second cutting yields the finer growth a field gives up once it's been worked, then seen again. In Second Cutting Rachael Catharine Anderson, Ryan Steadman, and Annika Tucksmith work rural ground the same way, revisiting the familiar to unearth the unseen.