Ethan Ryman News Today

Robert Ryman: 1961–1964 is a valentine. It follows a tightly focused 2022 hang of eight paintings, Ryman’s last, uptown (this latter exhibition was the artist’s first show at Zwirner, which announced representation of his estate in 2021), and coincides with a presentation of drawings in London. Curated by Dieter Schwarz, the Chelsea installation, as framed in the press materials, focuses on “a critical moment in Ryman’s development,” which “elucidate[s] many of...

One of the most effective ways an artist can model their own history is by fabricating it themselves. This can be done to then depart from such a fabrication, encapsulating both making and knowing in a unified creative gesture.