Brooklyn-based Ry Fyan’s paintings reconfigure his unconscious into luscious, colourful phantasmagoria. Fyan’s compositions are improvisational but pull from his diverse archive of remembered sources, the bits and memories of everyday life; as Fyan says, ‘I’m recording the temporal history of whatever I’m thinking about’. A mosaic of iridescent pink, turquoise and mauve forms the background to his 2007 painting The Reason Why So Many Things in This Life Are An Outrage Is Because You’re So Gentle. Against this luminous sky float miniature objects including cans, cereal boxes, postcards, a flower, a tiny laptop and bottle of tequila. In a nod to Francis Picabia’s Transparency series, overlapping faces of sinuous line emerge out of the sunset. The Reason Why So Many Things in This Life Are An Outrage Is Because You’re So Gentle is as mercurial as a dream, a land where food rains from the sky and ethereal portraits guard an expanse of mysterious forest.
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