UPDATE on recent work and events for Ryder:
The newest drawings, all titled Revelation, continue to explore themes of pattern and power, utilizing the statue of Hercules killing the Centaur by Giambologna in Florence. Establishing content through the statue’s mythological reference to a demi-god enacting trials of violence for salvation, the works are experiments in softening this power and geometrically ordering the violence and image. Some of the patterning is derived from pistol grip decorative patterning and some is from Versailles, both act as beautiful seductions or distractions in the service of a far scarier power.
