Ryan Mcgennisken

Ryan McGennisken’s paintings are constructed through an experimental studio process that intends to defy considered composition and gesture. By layering paint, motor oil, dirt, and rust with speed, he favours imperfection and seeks unforeseen beauty; adding and deleting marks at every step of the process. Seemingly inconsequential marks can have an influence on his decisions. Colour is employed sparingly, quickly and autonomously. The results often resemble the decaying, rotting, weather-beaten and defaced facades of abandoned buildings and objects.

Ryan McGennisken
b.1985
Resides - Melbourne, Aus
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curation
-2015 "Future Process" Artereal Gallery, Sydney
-2015 "Flux Control" House of Bricks, Melbourne
-2013 "So long, my forebear" Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne
-2012 "Real Gone" Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne

selected solo exhibitions
-2018 “Double or Maybe Triple Handling”, Memphis Gardens, Melbourne, VIC
-2017 “Vegetation Belt”, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, NSW
-2016 "Ground Work" Nicholas Projects, Melbourne, VIC
-2015 "Brightest Grime" Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, VIC 
-2015 "equal in all the right places" Paradise Hills Projects, Richmond, VIC
-2013 “Along a Field of Lost Marbles” House of Bricks Gallery, Collingwood VIC 
-2013 “She’s the Moon” Paradise Hills Gallery, VIC
-2012 “If it’s between death and magic” Latrobe Contemporary Gallery, Morwell, VIC

selected group exhibitions
-2018 “Paint 18”, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, NSW
-2018 “Prosopagnosia”, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
-2017 “seen unseen” Raglan Gallery, Cooma, NSW
-2017 'Summer 40' Rubicon, Melbourne, VIC
-2016 'view' Artereal Gallery, Sydney, NSW
-2016 "Supernova" Flugent Gallery, Macau, China 
-2015 "supernova" SLY artspace, Taipai, Taiwan
-2015 "Future Proces...