Kathleen Ryan: Daisy Chain
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Author: Ryan, Kathleen
Taking the form of vintage decorative crafts that have been blown up to an imposing scale, Kathleen Ryan’s Bad Fruit series employs material irony and art historical tropes to play with expectation and desire. Fashioning decaying fruit from glittering beads and gemstones, the work in this volume presents Ryan’s fruits alongside other large-scale models of evanescent vegetation, and ignites a sense of disorientation and mythic wonder through its materiality, scale and evocative power. Subverting expectations of value, synthetic acrylic and glass beads simulate glistening flesh, while clusters of semiprecious stones play the role of pathogens such as penicillium digitatum. This fully illustrated catalogue features essays by Bob Nickas, Shannon Mattern and Heather Davis.
ISBN 9781949172744. Karma Books, New York. hb. 104 pages. 59 colour ills. 29 x 23cm.
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Taking the form of vintage decorative crafts that have been blown up to an imposing scale, Kathleen Ryan’s Bad Fruit series employs material irony and art historical tropes to play with expectation and desire. Fashioning decaying fruit from glittering beads and gemstones, the work in this volume presents Ryan’s fruits alongside other large-scale models of evanescent vegetation, and ignites a sense of disorientation and mythic wonder through its materiality, scale and evocative power. Subverting expectations of value, synthetic acrylic and glass beads simulate glistening flesh, while clusters of semiprecious stones play the role of pathogens such as penicillium digitatum. This fully illustrated catalogue features essays by Bob Nickas, Shannon Mattern and Heather Davis.
ISBN 9781949172744. Karma Books, New York. hb. 104 pages. 59 colour ills. 29 x 23cm.
available