Cordy Ryman

The work of Cordy Ryman takes to task the investigation of geometries free from rigorous ordering. His abstract reliefs—elevating commonplace materials such as wood, spray paint, glue, Velcro and staples—exist in the conceptual interstice of painting and sculpture. Layered with unconventional juxtapositions that at first appear naïvely assembled, his unpretentious, three-dimensional renderings become performative objects that shift in conversation between color theory, surface distortion, and an almost architectural consideration of space. Ryman's unexpected methods of deconstruction and reconstruction call for closer examination of both traditional formalism and contemporary fabrication.

Cordy Ryman was educated at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, Conner Contemporary, Kavi Gupta Gallery, and Twig Gallery (Belgium), and is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, the Microsoft Art Collection, the Raussmuller Collection (Switzerland) and the Speyer Family Collection (New York), among others. The artist lives and works in New York.