Ryan Steadman
The Secret captures Steadman's daughters in a private exchange. Drawn from the intimate world of family life and grounded in the Catskills landscape, the painting preserves a fleeting moment while withholding its narrative from the viewer.
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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.
I see my practice as ongoing experiments with paint that express the nature of being human.
Ryan Steadman
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.