Ryan Driscoll

Saturn, 202068 x 51cmPrice on Request

Details

MaterialGalleryLocation

oil on woodSoft OpeningLondon

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This surreal artwork features a striking composition blending elements of nature and ancient mythology. The canvas is dominated by a towering, disembodied bronze-hued face with a serene, contemplative expression. Framing the central figure are dramatic, snow-capped mountains and crashing waves, creating a dreamlike, otherworldly atmosphere. The bold use of contrasting colors, textures, and scales suggests a melding of the natural and the supernatural, inviting the viewer to ponder the artwork's deeper symbolic resonance. The artist's unconventional approach to form and subject matter reflects a distinct style that challenges traditional artistic boundaries, hinting at a profound conceptual commentary on the human condition and its relationship with the natural world. ...

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Artist

Ryan Driscoll

B.1992, British

Ryan Driscoll’s portraits – inspired just as much by modern photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Dora Maar as they are by painters like Rossetti and Bronzino – co-opt Late Renaissance painting techniques and compositions to explore queered perceptions of beauty, love and death. Queer experience is communicated through Driscoll’s uses of the rich symbolic language and intertextuality found in Mannerism painting, in which every element and object holds great significance and allegory. His work also invokes Greek and Roman mythology, melodrama and fantasy to subvert fixed notions of gender. In his paintings, predominantly crafted with oil on wooden board and using himself as a life model, represent androgynous, fluid figures who are able to assert both tenderness, fragility and power. ...

Ryan Driscoll: Artworks

Ryan DriscollAthena and Pallas (death of Pallas), 2018Price on Request

Ryan DriscollDavid and Jonathan with the Head of Goliath, 2019Price on Request

Ryan DriscollLady of Sorrows, 2017-2019Price on Request

Ryan DriscollMars, 2020Price on Request

Ryan DriscollSaturn, 2020Price on Request

Ryan DriscollThe Weird Sisters, 2020Price on Request

Ryan DriscollUranus, 2020Price on Request

Ryan DriscollVenus, 2017Price on Request

Gallery

Soft Opening

London

Founded in 2018 by Antonia Marsh, Soft Opening presents UK-based and international emerging contemporary artists, and often their first solo presentations in London. Focusing on work pushing the conventional limits of medium or material, the gallery presents a wide range of media and practices. Soft Opening built its early program with projects that responded to the gallery’s unique first location in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station. Opening a second space in East London in 2019 saw programming strategy develop as Soft Opening began participating in international art fairs and representing artists. Programming is now focused at this East London space. In 2020 the gallery began publishing artist monographs - the first was with Tenant of Culture in 2020 followed by Gina Fischli in 2021 and Sin Wai Kin in 2022. ...