NADA NEW YORK 2022

May 5 - 8

High Noon is pleased to present a solo booth of paintings by Nebraska based artist Ryan Crotty for NADA New York 2022.

Crotty’s paintings are composed of transparent layers of acrylic sheathed one atop another over a base of modeling compound on linen. He then pulls the pigment, mixed with a gloss gel medium across the surface with an acrylic blade. This method most ostensibly lends itself to palpably sleek but imperfect colorfields of scrumptious, luminous gradients that appear backlit. He creates his own reliefs, producing a wide range of formalistic imagery derived mostly from economical materials which are placed beneath the linen and work against the pull of color, akin to printmaking.

The paintings’ evocative titles encourage multiple reads— a nod to the transcendence of formalism explored in the Light and Space movement— while the veil between structure and image speaks to Crotty’s competency in recognizing the necessity of interaction to push the work beyond visual phenomena.