Ronnie Rysz Primary Medium: Mixed media Other media: Collage, Paint, Printmaking, Installation Keywords: Figurative, Portraiture, Narrative, Social, Obsessive

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Artist Statement
My work addresses the diminishing importance of physical communication between individuals. The micro-universes created by social networking and mobile devices spread a user's attention thin, but simultaneously inflate a user's ego by the large numbers of people he or she can instantly access. In this exhibition there are no intimate relationships. Quality time is discarded in search of other stimuli, whether arbitrary internet information, a status posting, or shallow abbreviated text exchanges. The titles of each work reinforce the fact that social applications and new media slang serve as surrogates for personal interaction in contemporary communications.












Artist Bio
Ronnie Rysz
203.517.7237
r.j.rysz@gmail.com
www.ronnierysz.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2010 -Losing All Touch, 22 Haviland Street Gallery, Norwalk, CT
2009 -Tanning Membership, 116 Crown, New Haven, CT
2008 -Climate of Uncertainty, Fairfield Arts Council, Fairfield, CT

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2010- Flock, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Glengarry Glen Ross, Alternative Theater Space, Norwalk, CT
Echo, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
2009 -CWOS Index One, Artspace, New Haven, CT
-International Miniature Print, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
-Crossing the Bridge, Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT
-Members' Exhibit, Artist & Juror, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT
2008 -Conncentric, Artspace, New Haven, CT
-CWOS, (Artspace NH), Altnerative Space Installation, Westcove Studios, West Haven, CT
-Tête á Tête, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
-Impressed, Chauncey Stillman Gallery, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
-Not Printed on Paper, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT & Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
-A Printer's Eye, Fairfield Arts Council, Fairfield, CT
2007 -CWOS, (Artspace NH), Alternative Space, Hamden, CT
-Works on Paper, Foundry Arts Center, St. Charles, MO
-Bi-annual Exhibit, Read's Artspace, Bridgeport, CT
2006 -National Print Exhibit, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
-Dirty Fingernails, Foundry Arts Center, St. Charles, MO
-Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
-Crossing the Bridge, Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT
-BFA Thesis Exhibit, Chauncey Stillman Gallery, LACFA, Old Lyme, CT
-Regional BFA Exhibit, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
-Hygienic Art XXVII, Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT

Education:

BFA- Fine Art Painting 2002-2006
LymeAcademy College of Fine Art / Old Lyme, CT

Fine Arts- 2000-2002
School of Visual Arts / New York, NY

Collections:

Housatonic Museum of Art / Bridgeport, CT
LymeAcademy College of Fine Art / Old Lyme, CT

Honors:

CT Commission of Culture and Tourism; Grant, 2010
Change Inc.; Grant, Captiva, FL 2008
Vermont Studio Center; Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT 2006

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