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Shapes Gradient II, Earth Pigment Watercolor on Canvas framed in Maple, 2024 #SHAPESGRADIENT

Exploration of color, balance, and time with pigment paint on natural canvas.

“The current painting series by Ryan Alexandre Snow titled "Shapes Gradient" explores the realms of visual space, time, and balance through monochromatic shapes of color on natural canvas. With a seamless blend of abstract minimalism and organic textures, each painting invites viewers on a reflective journey of inner peace. Within this meditative series, Ryan masterfully orchestrates the interplay of minimal repeating elements, balancing form and layering, color and gradient. Through his intuitive brushstrokes, he captures the fluidity of motion, creating a suspended sense of time where past, present, and future converge. With this body of work he also commits an environmental focus on source materials including making his own paint from earth pigments collected near and far with local foraged ochres from the mountains of Ojai to traditional indigos from Japan.”

ARTIST BIO

Ryan Alexandre Snow is an abstract minimalist artist whose painting work explores the balance of peaceful mind inspired by nature, color, symmetry and resonance. His current body of work consists of organic shapes of color overlapping on raw canvas in perfect spacial harmony within the frame creating a feeling of zen.  With a focus on the total resonance of each piece his practice has evolved to include foraging nature for earth pigment to make his own natural paints, and collecting unique rare pigments from around the globe.  Ryan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from U.C. Santa Cruz and was honored with the Irwin Scholarship award.  His studio practice continues to evolve from the hills of Ojai California through exploration of color, shape, repetition and materials, being featured in both solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and abroad.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“By stripping away the unnecessary and focusing on the essential, minimalism combined with attention to source allows me to explore the beauty and power of color and balance. Through my work, I strive to create a sense of peace and harmony, while exploring the relationship between form and space. By using minimal elements, I aim to create a sense of clarity and focus, allowing the viewer to experience the healing calmness of color, repetition, and space created from the intention of peace and inspiration”