Article: MICHAEL RYAN

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MICHAEL RYAN

Andrew Edlin Gallery

529 West 20th Street

Through June 4

According to his dealer, Michael Ryan is "resigned to the Apocalypse." No surprise, since a number of his paintings envision the end-times. In one two-by-four-foot landscape, Destroyers, a ghostly harpy glowers at a tornado roiling the distant horizon. (Or perhaps ifs a mushroom cloud, although humanity and its self-destructive urges are almost puny in Ryan's realm of angels and demons.) His sole formal art training consisted of marbleizing classes, which accounts for the amalgams of oil, dry pigment, and epoxy he builds up like layers of varnish on masonite, glass, and ...

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