Artist Statement
I like trash and alleys. I want you to look closely at things you don’t want to look at, to engage with objects and places in a state of disuse. My work shares a personal experience of place and welcomes the viewer into a sensitive awareness of the world, challenging them to confront its strange, entropic nature. With varied scales and the complexities of handmaking it encourage a phenomenological experience. The work’s fragile and static quality evokes a feeling of unease and suggests something fleeting in the process of growth and decay.
Bio
Maddie Ryan is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on forgotten and abandoned locations. Maddie's work examines the experience of place via her interest in contemporary ruins and the everyday. She earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Indiana University and received her MFA in 2021 from Watkins College of Art at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has been displayed in the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Cape Cod, Maryland, and the Watkins College of Art Curry Gallery's Annual Currey Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee. Ryan presently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where he also teaches and works.