semantics gallery
1107 Harrison Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45214
tel. – 513-348-7261
Ryan Mulligan: "Channel Surfing Till Sunday"
Exhibition Dates: March 5 – 26, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5, 7-10 pm
Regular gallery hours: 12-4, Saturdays and by appointment
semantics Gallery is proud to present “Channel Surfing Till Sunday,” new works by Ryan Mulligan. Images generated while multi-tasking on his sofa. Mulligan draws while absorbing romantic comedies, and bouncing his infant son in a floor seat. The images are abstract, glowing, and folkish, residing somewhere between a child’s scrawl in marker and an educated draftsman. Re-interpreted in the studio into highly layered and weathered paintings they are stream of consciousness process paintings forced into a self imposed time management system. His massive site- specific wall paintings metaphorically captures the mental state of an overgrown teen trying to enjoy the state fair while hallucinating from a spoiled cheesesteak. Both real and imagined imagery become disparate props expelled from a phantasmic cartoon.
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