©2006 Theresa Bertocci

Michael x. Ryan Born in Syracuse, NY, 1956 Education: Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, BFA, 1979 Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy, 1978 Lives in Chicago, IL Michael x. Ryan’s refined drawings and three-dimensional installations capture the evaporating movements of our peripatetic urban lives. His obsessive, circuitous mappings of his daily travels, accompanied by meticulous journals, absorb one into the complex invisible matrixes that we all create. His reliefs based on the patterns of random stains found on urban sidewalks and the shifting cast shadows of trees reveal the elusive nature of time as an accomplice in leaving evidence of one’s transitory existence. upcoming exhibitions The Drawing Show, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, group show, July 18-August 17, 2008, Reception, July 18, 6-8p.m. For more info. call 773-445-3838

Michael x. Ryan, Above Ground exhibition installation view at Alfedena Gallery, Chicago
(photo by James Prinz ©2007)

Roadstains #3 Coke spill from parked car on Potomac Ave., Chicago, fall 2004 (detail) 2007
Wood relief made of Finnish and Baltic plywood, painted with flat latex house paint, 100 x 40 x 36 inches, $8,000

Antfarm self portrait: where did I travel within Krems, Austria on Sunday 31.07.05 (map) 2005
archival ink on Krems, Austria Tourist Map, image shown is 8" x 23.5" / full map is 23.25 x 35.25 inches

Antfarm self-portrait: where did I travel within the Chicago city limits
from mid-February through early March in the years 1999-2000-2001? 2004-05,
digital print on 80# Wausau Cover, coil bound book
image shown 17" x 11" / full book open is 17" x 22" x .50"