RYAN BROWNING : PLANEGAZING

Opening Friday, Nov 6th, at ADA Gallery, 228 W. Broad St.

ADA Gallery is pleased to present Planegazing, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Ryan Browning.

Ryan Browning was born in Houston, Texas in 1981, and now lives and works in Doha, Qatar at Virginia Commonwealth University campus. Browning’s work has been written about in The New York Times, ARTnews, ArtMaze Magazine, Art F City, and others. He has exhibited at ADA Gallery (Richmond, VA), Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY), Resort Baltimore (Baltimore, MD), Mulherin Pollard (NYC), Allegra LaViola (NYC), VOLTA NY (NYC), The Fire Station Museum (Doha, Qatar), Menage Gallery (St. Petersburg, RU), L21 Gallery (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) and others. He is represented by ADA Gallery and is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, where he teaches art foundations and emerging media.

Browning explores imagery and compositional strategies inspired by interactive and fictional worlds within popular media western art history. His production methods mix traditional materials and forms with techniques employing emerging media. His work includes paintings and sculpture that depict compressed, dreamlike spaces, abstracted characters, and inventive objects.

"My paintings and sculptures depict cartoonish objects and figurative elements in flattened and sometimes stage-like environments. I think of the shallow space appearing inside the edges of my paintings as a place to be occupied - a Miroesque space to fall into. Characters sometimes reach into the frame, or wait just beyond its edge. I imagine moving in and out of two and three dimensional space. I explore collage-like layered realities, virtuality and role play, and the charismatic power of objects through this spectrum of media exploration, imagining each work as a narrative component within an entangled whole.”

Opening First Fridays, November 6, 7-9pm

ada gallery, 228 W. Broad St., Richmond, Va 23220

This exhibition was supported (in part) by a VCUarts Qatar/Qatar Foundation Faculty Research Grant.