i8 Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth of new paintings by Ryan Mrozowski at Independent New York.
Ryan Mrozowski’s immersive language uses botanical subjects to explore elements of presence, absence, and perception. Foliage, fruit, and the spaces between become abstracted in Mrozowski’s compositions, as the artist crops and repeats his motifs. The resulting lyrical patterning disrupts the traditional still-life and often reimagines nature with methodical order. Mrozowski’s analog style, which is highly systematic, pays subtle homage to the technology of typing, cutting, and pasting. The repetition within the compositions is also reflected in the doubling of canvases, as seen in Mrozowski’s split paintings. By masking fauna with saturated areas of color, Mrozowski provokes an optical oscillation for the viewer, as one’s mind strives to connect the two paintings into a single image. Imbued with vibrancy, the artist’s diptychs create a distorted mirroring effect that can be found throughout his practice.
Ryan Mrozowski was born in 1981 in Pennsylvania, and lives and works between Hudson and Brooklyn, New York, USA. He earned his MFA from the Pratt Institute, New York in 2005 and his BFA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2003. His first exhibition with i8 Gallery was in 2022 in Reykjavík.
Ryan Mrozowski’s immersive language uses botanical subjects to explore elements of presence, absence, and perception. Foliage, fruit, and the spaces between become abstracted in Mrozowski’s compositions, as the artist crops and repeats his motifs. The resulting lyrical patterning disrupts the traditional still-life and often reimagines nature with methodical order. Mrozowski’s analog style, which is highly systematic, pays subtle homage to the technology of typing, cutting, and pasting. The repetition within the compositions is also reflected in the doubling of canvases, as seen in Mrozowski’s split paintings. By masking fauna with saturated areas of color, Mrozowski provokes an optical oscillation for the viewer, as one’s mind strives to connect the two paintings into a single image. Imbued with vibrancy, the artist’s diptychs create a distorted mirroring effect that can be found throughout his practice.
Ryan Mrozowski was born in 1981 in Pennsylvania, and lives and works between Hudson and Brooklyn, New York, USA. He earned his MFA from the Pratt Institute, New York in 2005 and his BFA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2003. His first exhibition with i8 Gallery was in 2022 in Reykjavík.
