Kate Ryan

Kate Ryan, born in London, UK lives in California's Orange County. She is an abstract painter drawing inspiration from the natural world, music, movement, and meditation to create color-driven abstract paintings rich with a personal lexicon of marks and shapes. Her paintings play with the tension between abstraction and figuration; exploring themes of place, presence, absence, remembrance, and transformation, reflecting her personal experience of life.
Free-form drawing with loose and gestural brushstrokes imbue the paintings with a dynamic energy that captures a sense of movement and vitality. Surfaces are sometimes sanded or scraped to excavate and reveal glimpses of former layers underneath, spray paint denotes spontaneity and fleetingness.

1999 - 2002 Middlesex University - BA Fine Art
1998 - 1999 Central St Martins - Art Foundation

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO SHOWS

2023
Solo presentation: Moments Of Being - She/ They Gallery, Santa Ana - April
Solo presentation: Waterscapes - Holiday, Costa Mesa - March-May

GROUP SHOWS

2023

Pilgrimage - She/ They Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Hear Their Story - She/ They Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
New Year New Vibe- Laguna Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA

2022
Newport Beach Art In The Park - Newport Beach, CA
Makers Markets - The LAB Anti Mal, CA
Art Venture - Samueli Theatre, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA

2021
The Artist’s Studio - Balboa Inn Resort, Newport Beach, CA
Surfing the Pacific Rim - Huntington Beach Art Center, CA

2019
Landscape Art - Huntington Beach Art Center, CA

2018
Centered on the Center - Huntington Beach Art Center, CA

2017
Centered on the Center - Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
Love Today - Curation, Location 1980 Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Open Studios - Location 1980 Gallery/ Studios, Costa Mesa, CA

2016
Art Start - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Tree of Life - Location 1980 Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Open Studios - Location 1980 Gallery and Artist Studios, Costa Mesa, CA