Contemporary Art
Schwartz Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection
Ryan Wallace
(American, born 1977)
Conduit of This and Adoration, 2006
Ryan Wallace, Conduit of This and Adoration, 2006, mixed media collage on canvas. 46 x 58 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
"Based on personal, desired, and fictitious experience, I create worlds of variously interpretable, often romanticist narratives. The pictures act autonomously, and as a whole suggest each piece as a segment or selection lifted from a larger landscape or longer timeline. The imagery and symbols reflect an interest in the dualities, fleetingness and half-lives of the beautiful and awesome. The symbols are enacted to create brochure-like pictures of the adventuresome and romantic, subverted by an inherent apprehension at the improbability of the universe in which they exist."—Ryan Wallace