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MARK RYN: THE GAY 90'S
The Gay 90’s Ol Tyme Art ShowPl Kasm Gallery, New York, New York, 2010Patgs.
The Gay Neti Ol Tyme Mic. Los Angel-based artist Mark Ryn expands his sgular meldg of high and low art, cerebral medatn and pop-culture mp wh “The Gay 90s: Wt, ” a new exhibn at the Kohn Gallery L. That’s a ntuatn of “The Gay 90s: Ol Tyme Art Show, ” which took place at New York’s Kasm Gallery 2010.
“The Gay ’90s” is a term vented the Roarg ’20s that refers to the utopian image of Amerin life durg the supposedly simpler 1890s—an era untouched by world wars, enomic crisis, and urban chaos. As the gural exhibn at the Kohn Gallery’s new 12, 000-square-foot space, “The Gay 90s: Wt” clus new patgs, works on paper, sculpture, and an stallatn that will clu Ryn’s largt and most amb work to date: The Parlor (Allegory of Magic, Qutsence and Dive Mystery), a 96-by-120-ch patg wh a woon ame hand-rved bas-relief.
MARK RYN: THE GAY 90'S EXHIBN BOOK
RYDEN: This exhibn began as a ntuatn of the Gay ’90s theme I did at Pl Kasm Gallery New York 2009.
The world of the Gay ’90s ph my own boundari of sentimentaly. GACHMAN: The nostalgic aspect of your work has been discsed often, and you n see “The Gay 90s: Wt. MARK RYDEN’S “THE GAY 90S: WEST” OPENS AT KOHN GALLERY IN LOS ANGELES TOMORROW, MAY 3, AND RUNS THROUGH JUNE 28, 2014.
His self-admted goal producg the work reprented The Gay 90's is to "pull the lowt of the low to the hight of the high" by reterpretg the ksch reprentatns of the 1890's (most of which were actually realized the 1920's) as surreal-renaissance-style patgs. Mark Ryn: The Gay 90's Exhibn BookBook Size: 12-1/4" x 9-1/4"Pag: 148ISBN: 978-0-8478-3985-8Publisher: Rizzoli2013This book llects sixty piec om Mark Ryn’s “Gay 90’s” solo exhibn, which buted at Pl Kasm Gallery New York Cy 2010 and will open at Michael Kohn Gallery Los Angel later this year.