Cordy ryman biography of michael

  • Cordy Ryman received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts/Art Education in 1997.
  • The openness of beginnings, rather than the claustrophobic tidiness of traditional resolution, is what captures Ryman's interest.
  • 1971 born in New York.

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    Cordy Ryman

    1971
    born in New York

    lives and works in New York
     

    1997
    BFA with Honors, School of Visual Arts Fine Arts/Art Education, New York

    1997
    Rhodes Family Award for överlägsen kvalitet eller utmärkt prestation, School of Visual Arts, New York

    2006
    Helen Foster Barnett Prize, National Academy Museum, New York


     

    PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)

    Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
    American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
    Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
    Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
    Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art,Overland Park, KS
    Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
    Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia, PA
    Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
    Raussmuller Collection, Basel, Switzerland
    Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
    The Speyer Family Collection, NY
    fräsch Virginia Collection
    Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle, WA
    Community College, Overland Park, KS
     


    SELECTED COMMISSIONS

    2016
    Percent for Art, PS11Q, Queens, fräsch

  • cordy ryman biography of michael

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    Seen from the street, color breaks through the facade of an office building to mingle with the dynamism of the city. Sectioned lines of pinks, greens, whites, oranges, blues, and their pastel counterparts weave between the reflections of cars, pedestrians, foliage, buildings, and skylight. On the other side of the glittering glass, occupying an otherwise nondescript office building, is Tower 49 Gallery, the location of Cordy Ryman’s yearlong installation, FREE FALL. Initially, it may seem a strange place for Ryman’s sculptural-painterly hybrids. Tower 49, designed by starchitecture firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP), is a blue-tinted glass building, forty-five stories tall and shaped like a skewed “H.” But therein lies the brilliance of Ryman’s works in this space: they contradictorily seek to both blend into and stand out from the building. By their very condition, the works break the austerity of the high-end interior

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    Maximizing Minimalism

    John Haber
    in New York City

    Hassan Sharif, Cordy Ryman, and Regina Bogat

    Minimalism is becoming maximal. Exhibitions have expanded its reach to Arte Povera in Italy, Grupo Frente in the Americas, and beyond. As with the revival of painting, artists continue to respond to Modernism and the 1960s as well.

    They find a maximizing impulse within Minimalism. Bursting the grid involved performance and raw materials for Hassan Sharif in and around Dubai. It involves a corporate tower and its infrastructure for Cordy Ryman now. And his reliance on wood strips to shape a painting has a neglected precedent. Some artists have a color wheel. Regina Bogat in the 1990s had her color line.

    The magic in squares

    When Hassan Sharif died in 2016 at age sixty-five, he left behind all sorts of things, and his Chelsea gallery gives pride of place to some of the least prepossessing. Notes or sketches place numbers in small grids, like KenKen puzzles or magic squares that refuse