RYAN LEE at EXPO Chicago 2024

RYAN LEE is pleased to present a selection of works by 14 artists at the 11th edition of EXPO Chicago, including Emma Amos, Richmond Barthé, Hung Liu, and Donald Sultan. Featured in the gallery’s booth, RYAN LEE artist Anne-Karin Furunes will also be included in IN/SITU, EXPO’s curated selection of large-scale sculpture, video, and site-specific works.

RYAN LEE, booth 303, installed at EXPO Chicago, 2024

Several of the gallery’s exhibited artists have close ties to Chicago and the Midwest. Donald Sultan – who will debut new work at this year’s fair – received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute in the 1970s, some forty years after Harlem Renaissance sculptor Richmond Barthé finished his formal training at the Institute. The gallery’s presentation will include Interception-Lion (1984) by Emma Amos, a never before seen, monumental painting including the artist’s own weaving. The work was made 1 year after Amos’s Black Dog Blues, included in the AIC’s collection.

RYAN LEE, booth 303, installed at EXPO Chicago, 2024

RYAN LEE is also proud to exhibit seminal Chinese American artist Hung Liu at this year’s fair. Liu was the first Asian American woman artist to be the subject of a major retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC in 2020, curated by Dorothy Moss. Her work has subsequently been exhibited in major solo exhibitions throughout the United States.

At EXPO, the gallery’s presentation will debut new works made specifically for the fair by represented artists Josh Dorman, Masako Miki, and Gideon Rubin.

Gideon Rubin

White Top, 2024

Oil on linen

9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (25 x 20 cm)

Josh Dorman

Being (heath), 2022

Ink, acrylic, antique paper on panel

24 x 18 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)

RYAN LEE, booth 303, installed at EXPO Chicago, 2024