Clearly in dialogue with seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes, Kathleen Ryan's bejeweled sculptures of rotting foods are also inspired by DIY crafts and homespun decor.
Kathleen Ryan’s first solo exhibition flowed like a nostalgic but sobering love ballad, the seven sculptures speaking to the beauty found in the fluctuations of nature, industry, and culture. …
Perched on racks near the ground-floor entrance to the Independent art fair, before the three floors higher up swell in size and welcome washes of natural light, are a series of ceramic birds by