Booth 326
April 13-16, 2023
EXPO Chicago 2023
RYAN LEE is pleased to showcase iconic works by ten important artists in the gallery’s first presentation at EXPO CHICAGO.
New works by Gideon Rubin, Katy Stone and Anne-Karin Furunes will debut at the fair. Stephanie Syjuco’s Chromakey Aftermath (Standard Bearers) (2019) will be included in OVERRIDE, the fair’s city-wide collaborative public art initiative. Also included in the gallery’s booth will be recent work by Emma Amos, Tim Braden, Kota Ezawa, Masako Miki, Clifford Ross, and Donald Sultan. The work on view will range from photography, sculpture, painting, lightbox, and sculptural installation, thus reflecting the diversity of approaches each artist has to their craft.
Calving Glacier X, Kronebreen, Svalbard (scale), 2023
Acrylic on canvas, perforated
78 7/8 x 145 inches (200.3 x 368.3 cm)
Calving Glacier X, Kronebreen, Svalbard (scale), 2023
Acrylic on canvas, perforated
78 7/8 x 145 inches (200.3 x 368.3 cm)
Chromakey Aftermath (Standard Bearers), 2019
Archival pigment print
41 x 31 inches (104.1 x 78.7 cm)
Edition of 8
In Stephanie Syjuco’s Chromakey Aftermath series, the artist photographs chaotic compositions of protestors and their protest props portrayed entirely in bright, chroma key green. Chroma key—commonly referred to as green screen—is a photographic technique that allows editors to fabricate new backgrounds or settings post-production. “Fascinated with the detritus and objects left at the scenes [of protests], as well as items confiscated by police that were interpreted as potential weapons,” Syjuco’s dominating, green fabric interrogates how the media superimposes its own narratives onto protests.
This work is featured in Override: A Billboard Project, a citywide public art initiative exhibiting artwork on billboards throughout Chicago.
Blue Hair Band, 2023
Oil on linen
27 15/16 x 26 inches (71 x 66 cm)
Alchemical Planet 1, 2022
Oil and metallic pigments on aluminum
36 x 36 x 1 3/4 inches (91.4 x 91.4 x 4.4 cm)
Edition of 3
Untitled (White Bathing Suit), 2017
Oil on canvas
11 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (30.2 x 24.8 cm)
Hurricane LXXX (Variant A), 2017
Archival pigment print
48 x 68 inches (121.9 x 172.7 cm)
Edition of 5
Kota Ezawa’s works serve as conduits of events for both history and pop culture, translating them into personal memories and experiences. Visit to Hiroshima is a poignant take on Barack Obama’s historic 2016 visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. This lightbox illuminates the moment that Obama observed a solemn moment of silence before the Memorial Cenotaph, a monument containing the names of the dead. “is work is part of a recent series in which Ezawa studies and captures momentous instances of peace and diplomacy by some of history’s most iconic leaders.
Visit to Hiroshima, 2020
Duratrans transparency and lightbox
30 x 42 inches (76.2 x 106.7 cm)
Edition of 5
Greens, Carmine and Pink, 2021
Oil on canvas
56 x 48 inches (142 x 122 cm)
Color, 2002
Acrylic on canvas with African fabric borders
66 1/2 x 47 1/4 inches (168.9 x 120 cm)
Color is a continuation of Emma Amos’s 1960s and 1970s exploration of gender, social, and racial dynamics of color, an investigation that remained a hallmark of Amos’s style throughout her career. Implying a preoccupation with colorism and sexism, Color is also deeply implicated in the formal aspects of color theory, texture, perspective, and composition. The work is explicitly painterly, as is conveyed by the painter’s palette bordering the central composition. The woman at the center of the painting purses her lips in a kiss to the viewer as she shakes her skirt. Dancers and athletes have frequently been the subjects of Amos’s work—in this work, the joyous, central figure dances atop a field of pixelated dots of blue, yellow, red, and green. The overall work—aptly and pointedly named—is a joyous celebration of a multi-colored identity and world, as depicted by Amos’s colorful palette.
Mimosas with Silver June 28 2022, 2022
Enamel, acrylic, and graphite on masonite
48 x 96 inches (121.9 x 243.8 cm)
Mimosas with Silver June 28 2022, 2022
Enamel, acrylic, and graphite on masonite
48 x 96 inches (121.9 x 243.8 cm)