"Reading Anne Ryan’s Poetic Collages"
Hyperallergic
2022
Anne Ryan harnessed visual art as a means for creating poetry through the relatively new, nonverbal idioms of American abstract art.
Goings on About Town: Anne Ryan
New Yorker
2022
The untitled works, made between 1948 and 1954 (the year Ryan died), on view in this elegant show are small, many just five by four inches. But wisps of torn paper and scraps of fabric assume bold proportions in these compressed compositions. Stray fibres become decisive lines; minor wrinkles offer rich texture.
Anne Ryan at Washburn Gallery
Whitehot Magazine
2022
Ryan’s remarkable ability to generate genuine emotion from the abstract is made clear in this exhibition.