About the artist:
Ryan Fenchel thinks with his hands to create paintings that depict ever-becoming vessels, evolutionary states that mirror the artist's intuitive process. The artist draws inspiration from alchemy and ikebana—the Japanese art of flower arranging—as well as art histories, mythologies and the natural sciences. Fenchel’s work is a cosmos without hierarchy that generates unfamiliar values and interpretations.
BIO:
Ryan Fenchel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1981. The artist received an MFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a BFA in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.
Solo exhibitions of Fenchel’s work have taken place at: The Landing in Los Angeles, California; Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Illinois; Dan Devening Projects in Chicago, Illinois; and Tew Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia.
Group exhibitions that have shown Fenchel’s work have taken place in: New York City; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; Tokyo, Japan; Berlin, Germany; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fenchel lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Specs:
Fenchel's paintings expand the still life genre into less familiar territory. Vessels- gourd-like or elongated- hold floral forms that move between recognizable flowers and abstraction. What looks at first like a traditional arrangement shifts on closer inspection: petals become brushstrokes, geometric fragments, or faces in transformation. His work references ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, but replaces its calm order with an intuitive process of building up and revising.More
- Framed: 20.8 x 16.8 in.
3:00 PM, Apr 24, 2026.
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