"Bringing the Museum to You"
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The Cyber Art Show
Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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Gallery #195
May 21, 2015
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Michael S. Ryan (Born 1947)
- Image of the Day -
"Bellvue"
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By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece Exhibitions of works by American contemporary Impressionist Michael S. Ryan (born 1947 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
M.S. (Mike) Ryan has been a painter for 40 plus years. Trained in the late 60s and early 70s as an abstract painter, he has concentrated in the last 30 years on colorist impressionism, featuring both landscape and figurative subject matter.
Mike studied under Byron Burford, Joseph Patrick, and Michael Tyzack at the University of Iowa, as well as Old Dominion University and Drake University. A midwesterner, he has chosen to paint the upper Mississippi River Valley that is his home. Recently, he has added the Rocky Mountains to his list of subjects.
Ryan produces work in oils, acrylic, and pastel. He is represented by a number of galleries, including Catiri 's Art Oasis, Amana Colonies, Artisans' Gallery, Iowa City, and Wiederspan Gallery in Cedar Rapids. Ryan is represented in both corporate and private collections in the midwest and west.
Feature Artist Bio
ARTIST'S OFFICIAL BIO
http://www.msryanart.com/mbr_bio.php#.VVp2ZrlViko
Michael S. Ryan's
OFFICIAL WEBSITE http://www.msryanart.com/
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"I am influenced and include elements of the methods and ideas found in such diverse groups as the West Coast Plein Air movement, the 1960s bay area figurative painters, Wolf Kahn's colorist theories as well as the work of Ken Elliott and Roger Bechtold. One thing all these groups and artists have in common is the insistence that the "hand of the artist" be present in all their work.
The surfaces, color choices, design, and composition are all a painter's personal calligraphy. This is important to me because I regard the subject less important than its presentation of the subject as a painting."
