What We Forget to Remember
Joan Ryan

GALLERY II

November 3 - 28, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4, 6-8 pm

Ryan’s paintings and drawings use nostalgic images of childhood that crash into present day realities. Using interiors decorated with recognizable contemporary imagery of adolescence, class pictures and children’s drawings, these idyllic memories interact with the paraphernalia of war. There is an implicit freedom in the scribbles that spill from drawings taped onto whimsical walls decorated with tanks and guns – but harsh truths also loom in the content of the drawings. This conflict aims to question our desire for a fictitious past and reveals the complexity of our cultural identity and actual heritage.

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