AT Art & Interiors and Low Tide Properties are pleased to present, Bird Song, an exhibition featuring a series of abstract artworks by Canadian artist Bryan Ryley (b 1952). Curated by Allison Thompson, of AT Art & Interiors, the exhibition is a review of artist Bryan Ryley’s latest body of work that was developed in response to the outset of Covid and the sense of urgency through the wildfires and floods in British Columbia of 2021/22.
Bird Song features 15 of Ryley’s most recent large-scale paintings, now presented for the first time in Vancouver. The artist speaks about the work as follows: “Bird Song is both new and old language for me. Daring to become more overtly ‘figurative’, these paintings are marked by ‘pathogens’ floating through the air, physical clumps of paint, vague washes, organic striations, all intended to evoke a ‘presence’ of things, unseen yet felt. At times these paintings are difficult to read, they contain hard to decipher passages, offering only glimpses of recognition rather than complacent platforms to rest on. They are intentionally complex and simple at the same time, sometimes clear sometimes confusing. As the work developed a precarious yet strangely stable structure emerged which I began to lean against. For me they became emotional roadmaps of the times we are living through.”
