Monkey Mind Symphony
Freight + Volume
New York, NY
November 17, 2023 - January 20, 2024
While nostalgia and the yearning it precipitates may be gripping the art world, Cordy Ryman’s gently dazzling painting installations, on view at Freight + Volume, are unapologetically about the here and now – that is, what’s happening in one place, today. Titled “Monkey Mind Symphony,” the show captures the distractions we encounter day by day, minute by minute. What could be more apt for our time than a visual language comprising more than a hundred small, curious objects? Logically, they are the physical manifestations of tweets or threads, crafted easily, sometimes beguilingly unfinished in the traditional sense of the word, and arranged so as to radiate Ryman’s idiosyncratic energy.
—Sharon Butler, Cordy Ryman, maestro of the quotidian. Two Coats of Paint.
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Cordy Ryman: Monkey Mind Symphony by Ekin Erkan for the Brooklyn Rail.
Collecting Sparks
Galerie Walter Storms
Munich, Germany
May 12 - July 30, 2023
I want each piece to feel organic and alive in the place where it’s exhibited. When I’m presented with an opportunity to have a show in a unique or new space, I generally start with the space itself as my jumping off point. This way, the entire space functions as a single experiment, an experience to play with and bring a piece to life.
Constellations
Freight+Volume
New York, NY
February 25 - April 11, 2021
What Ryman brings to the table is a sense of humor marked by a refusal to regard the role of the artist too seriously. This does not mean he defines himself as a jokester. Rather, he is dealing with the more tricky challenge of his generation’s legacy, which some have regarded as the end of painting and sculpture — the move into what Rosalind Krauss defined as the expanded field, in which “sculpture is rather only one term on the periphery of a field in which there are other, differently structured possibilities.
— John Yau, Cordy Ryman’s Stubborn Joy, Hyperallergic
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Cordy Ryman: Constellations by David Rhodes for The Brooklyn Rail
On The Spot with Cordy Ryman The Brooklyn Rail
Dissolving Artifacts
Studio 200
Brooklyn, NY
January 9 - April 12, 2020
Redux
The Bonnier Gallery
Miami, FL
January 25 - March 14, 2020
Free Fall
Tower 49
New York, NY
May 15, 2017 - April 22, 2018
The painted sculpture and sculpted paintings of Cordy Ryman refuse to disguise their source in the scrap heap, wearing their hardware, glue, and wood knots as badges of honor. They simultaneously embrace and refute abstraction, engaging in the playfulness and formal Platonism indulged by the Cubists while maintaining a Dadaist’s intimate relationship with unrefined reality.
— Thomas Miccheli, Free Fall
Cordy Ryman: Free Fall by Colin Edgington for The Brooklyn Rail
Since 1982, New York City's Percent for Art law has required that one percent of the budget for eligible City-funded construction projects be spent on public artwork. Managed by the City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Percent for Art program has commissioned site-specific projects by artists whose sensibilities reflect the diversity of New York City. These projects demonstrate how art that is integrated into its site enhances civic architecture and a wide range of public spaces. These public sites provide an important venue for all New Yorkers and visitors to appreciate artwork outside the traditional museum or gallery setting.
Cordy Ryman
Galerie Zürcher
New York, New York
September 15 - November 12, 2016
In his best works humor and inventiveness are inseparable, and the joy of them is equally palpable.
- John Yau, Hyperallergic, Simple Pleasures
Cordy Ryman
Galerie Zürcher
Paris, FR
October 30 - December 23, 2015
Cordy Ryman: Chimera 45
Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD)Columbus, OH
September 10 - December 11, 2015
While sonic echoes diminish and gradually fade, the echoes in Ryman’s art seem to grow stronger as they reverberate
- Mary Birmingham
Chimera: An Interview with Cordy Ryman by Jill Connor for Whitehot Magazine