Ryan Crotty is a visual artist and abstract painter based in rural Nebraska. He creates non-representational color field paintings rooted in the process intensive traditions of printmaking. Highlighting evidence of the canvas support structure, surface imperfections, and materiality, he uses translucent paint to generate an interplay of light and color that challenges visual interpretation of a two-dimensional surface. Artist and writer Stephen Maine who first reviewed Crotty’s 2018 solo debut in Hyperallergic described the paintings as, “retooling post-painterly abstraction for the digital era” and noted that, “their transcendent luminosity is thrillingly at odds with their straightforward material presence.”