"A.E. Ryan's reliquaries and architectural tableaux...stand out for their beauty and wry sense of humor. Ryan creates elaborate stage sets within ornate frames, evoking a lot of depth out of a little space....She conflates the lullaby majesty of...landscape, architecture, and art history with the ordinary meanderings of everyday life in a way that's bound to spark a chuckle....The magnificent scene, then, is a stage for comic, petty foibles. For all the beauty that surrounds us, we still put blinders on and bicker over underwear. Lucky for us. Ryan loves the beauty and laughs at the foibles."
- Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe
"A.E. Ryan's reliquaries and architectural tableaux...stand out for their beauty and wry sense of humor. Ryan creates elaborate stage sets within ornate frames, evoking a lot of depth out of a little space....She conflates the lullaby majesty of...landscape, architecture, and art history with the ordinary meanderings of everyday life in a way that's bound to spark a chuckle....The magnificent scene, then, is a stage for comic, petty foibles. For all the beauty that surrounds us, we still put blinders on and bicker over underwear. Lucky for us. Ryan loves the beauty and laughs at the foibles."
- Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe
"A.E. Ryan's reliquaries and architectural tableaux...stand out for their beauty and wry sense of humor. Ryan creates elaborate stage sets within ornate frames, evoking a lot of depth out of a little space....She conflates the lullaby majesty of...landscape, architecture, and art history with the ordinary meanderings of everyday life in a way that's bound to spark a chuckle....The magnificent scene, then, is a stage for comic, petty foibles. For all the beauty that surrounds us, we still put blinders on and bicker over underwear. Lucky for us. Ryan loves the beauty and laughs at the foibles."
- Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe
Consummate Artist
COLLAGES
sporades series
gilded l'eau & wattage
"A.E. Ryan's colorful, sensual collages [are] quiet meditations on form, texture and the beauty of distressed materials." – Raymond Liddell, Art New England
