• Ryan Nord Kitchen - 2020 Paintings

    January 22 - February 12, 2021

     

     
  • Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present 2020 Paintings, an online solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Ryan Nord Kitchen, opening...

    Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present 2020 Paintings, an online solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist

    Ryan Nord Kitchen, 

    opening virtually on January 22, 2021.

  • RYAN NORD KITCHEN

    B. 1988 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

     

    Ryan Nord Kitchen attended Luther College on a musical scholarship and received their BA in Art in 2011. Kitchen then spent a year working in the exhibitions department at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2012, Kitchen moved to Baltimore, Maryland to attend the Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Under the tutelage of Joan Waltemath and visiting lecturers including Lisa Corinne Davis, Raphael Rubinstein, Carrie Moyer, and Patricia Treib, Kitchen received their MFA in 2014. Kitchen has been reviewed in the New York Times, interviewed by multiple publications, participated in the Worth Artist Residency, and have work included in multiple international collections.



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    • Kitchen’s first solo presentation since 2018 continues to inhabit the space between abstraction and representation. Canvases seemingly inclined toward pure gesture are refuted by references to the natural world, both archetypal and impressionistic. 

    • Through rhythmic play and the integration of fragmentary linear and planar elements, Kitchen works toward cultivating a contemporary and unique vernacular. Kitchen’s practice resides between drawing and painting. Through the use of flattened volumes and the tension created by heightened formal contrasts (figure and ground, surface and depth) Kitchen creates objects that build off the modernist legacy of Marsden Hartley and Paul Klee. 

    • If seemingly improvised, each mark is indeed measured, informed by both personal experience and an ongoing investigation of formal composition. Cumulatively, the works construct a lexicon of vistas, moonlit gardens, sunlit pathways, and river views that encourages a reverent, if idiosyncratic, reading of the American landscape.

  • Through the use of flattened volumes and the tension created by heightened formal contrasts (figure and ground, surface and depth)... Through the use of flattened volumes and the tension created by heightened formal contrasts (figure and ground, surface and depth)...

    Through the use of flattened volumes and the tension created by heightened formal contrasts (figure and ground, surface and depth) Kitchen creates objects that build off the modernist legacy of Marsden Hartley and Paul Klee.

  • Canvases seemingly inclined toward pure gesture are refuted by references to the natural world, both archetypal and impressionistic. Canvases seemingly inclined toward pure gesture are refuted by references to the natural world, both archetypal and impressionistic.

    Canvases seemingly inclined toward pure gesture are refuted by references to the natural world, both archetypal and impressionistic.

  • Works

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    FOR RYAN NORD KITCHEN'S CV PLEASE CLICK HERE