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RYAN STEADMAN – REAL ONES
February 10 – March 17 | HMGP | 60 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Ryan Steadman, Real Ones, 2024, Brooklyn, NY
Halsey McKay proudly presents a solo exhibition of new work by Ryan Steadman, his second with the gallery, on view through March 17th at HMGP in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For Steadman, themes centered around bonded relationships and the home have become all-encompassing subject matter for his oil paintings. Biographical and in startling yet harmonious color, Steadman’s paintings are equally steeped in the traditions of both color-field abstraction and figurative realism. With subjects decidedly gentle in nature, he eschews the more traditional and aggressively masculine artistic preoccupations of heroic abstraction or the female nude. Instead, this group of intimate artworks focuses on a life lived in the county among children, horses, dogs, cats, and his partner.
With his flat, economical painting style, Steadman pares down his images to their most essential yet idealized shapes. Through this timeless aesthetic, he exalts cherished quotidian activities, such as hiking, foraging, or playing an instrument, to manifest their profound meaning and beauty.
In an increasingly technological world where the real and artificial have rapidly become entwined, Steadman creates paintings that revere his most tangible and vital relationships as he attempts to pinpoint his own fleeting reality before it’s gone.
Ryan Steadman was born in 1974 in Greenville, SC, and lives and works in Delhi, NY. He has shown his work at galleries such as Karma in New York, NY; Halsey McKay Gallery in Brooklyn & East Hampton, NY; Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, NY; and others. He earned his BFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, and his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.