news & announcements
Colorado Women in Abstraction
July 15 - October 1, 2016
MSU's Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO
YouTube Video here
July 15 - October 1, 2016
MSU's Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO
YouTube Video here
Winter Group Show
December 1, 2017 - February 24, 2018
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
December 1, 2017 - February 24, 2018
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
Spring Group Show
May 29, 2018 - August 1, 2018
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
May 29, 2018 - August 1, 2018
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
"Discombobulated" featured on DIY Network show "Bargain Mansions"
Acrylic Artist Magazine
Winter 2016
Feature artist article "Flower Power"; Pgs 34-41
Acrylic Artist Magazine Winter 2016; "Painter's
Palette / Conn Ryder"; Pg 112
April 1 - June 30, 2016
Conn Ryder Selected Works - Solo Exhibition
Point Gallery
765 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204)
ART REVIEW by art critic Michael Paglia, in Westword.
http://www.westword.com/arts/review-impressive-conn-ryder-and-michael-pointer-solos-at-point-gallery-7841727
Conn Ryder Selected Works - Solo Exhibition
Point Gallery
765 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204)
ART REVIEW by art critic Michael Paglia, in Westword.
http://www.westword.com/arts/review-impressive-conn-ryder-and-michael-pointer-solos-at-point-gallery-7841727
November 2017 -- "Discombobulate" and "Free Rein" were showcased in a home renovation on the DIY Network show "Bargain Mansions."
Four Solos - Justin Beller, Conn Ryder, Jeffrey Thompson & Bart Vargas
June 2 - 30, 2017
Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA 50312
June 2 - 30, 2017
Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA 50312
Group Exhibition
February 26, 2019 - April 20, 2019
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
February 26, 2019 - April 20, 2019
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
Kicking Abstract & Taking Names -- Women Painters
Curated by Conn Ryder
September 13, 2019 - October 18, 2019
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
Featured artists: Johanne Brouillette, Margaret Fitzgerald, Sarah Grant, Dana James, Anita Jung, Trixie Pitts, Ellen Rolli, Conn Ryder, Karen Scharer, Julie Schumer, Daniela Schweinsberg, Alayne Spafford and Pamela Staker.
Press release:
https://www.moberggallery.com/prconnrydercurates/
Curated by Conn Ryder
September 13, 2019 - October 18, 2019
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
Featured artists: Johanne Brouillette, Margaret Fitzgerald, Sarah Grant, Dana James, Anita Jung, Trixie Pitts, Ellen Rolli, Conn Ryder, Karen Scharer, Julie Schumer, Daniela Schweinsberg, Alayne Spafford and Pamela Staker.
Press release:
https://www.moberggallery.com/prconnrydercurates/
October 2019
My painting "Disenchanted" is the cover art featured on the book "This is My Body: Women of Color Reclaiming Narratives of Self and Body" -- "an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship with their bodies . . . ";
Published by Nomadic Press, October 2019;
My painting "Disenchanted" is the cover art featured on the book "This is My Body: Women of Color Reclaiming Narratives of Self and Body" -- "an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship with their bodies . . . ";
Published by Nomadic Press, October 2019;
Winter Group Show
December 2, 2019 - January 6, 2020
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
December 2, 2019 - January 6, 2020
Moberg Gallery - Des Moines, IA 50312
Contemporary Women Paint: Abstract Expressions
January 29 - March 20, 2021
Moberg Gallery -- Des Moines, IA 50312
"Conn Ryder’s new acrylic works on canvas: 'Fustercluck,' 'Grin and Bear It,' 'Over the Moon,' 'Sucker Punch,' and 'The Jig is Up,' are celebratory and cathartic. Her work feels gorgeously wild and visceral, with an objective of subjecting one to life, with all its vicissitudes-to activate self and other. Because body, whether subject or not, is all relationship. And mind is mining. And the muscle that beats out everything else, is, without the body/mind unity, simply a contained splatter. But with it, paintings of effusion become strange images of new jacaranda species and pyrotechnics, from up in the tree or inside the work of fire." Text by Michaela Mullin
January 29 - March 20, 2021
Moberg Gallery -- Des Moines, IA 50312
"Conn Ryder’s new acrylic works on canvas: 'Fustercluck,' 'Grin and Bear It,' 'Over the Moon,' 'Sucker Punch,' and 'The Jig is Up,' are celebratory and cathartic. Her work feels gorgeously wild and visceral, with an objective of subjecting one to life, with all its vicissitudes-to activate self and other. Because body, whether subject or not, is all relationship. And mind is mining. And the muscle that beats out everything else, is, without the body/mind unity, simply a contained splatter. But with it, paintings of effusion become strange images of new jacaranda species and pyrotechnics, from up in the tree or inside the work of fire." Text by Michaela Mullin
Viral Influence: Art in the Time of Coronavirus
May 20 - August 22, 2021
Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities
6901 Wadsworth Boulevard
Arvada, CO 80003
https://arvadacenter.org/events/viral-influence-art-in-the-time-of-coronavirus
Painting in the exhibition -- "Sleep Deprived"
36" x 72" x 1.5" acrylic on canvas
May 20 - August 22, 2021
Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities
6901 Wadsworth Boulevard
Arvada, CO 80003
https://arvadacenter.org/events/viral-influence-art-in-the-time-of-coronavirus
Painting in the exhibition -- "Sleep Deprived"
36" x 72" x 1.5" acrylic on canvas
September 2 - 5, 2021
"An excluisive, semi-private boutique fair specially curated for Hamptonites. Presented by the producers of ArtHamptons."
"An excluisive, semi-private boutique fair specially curated for Hamptonites. Presented by the producers of ArtHamptons."
Contemporary Abstraction
May 27 - August, 2022
Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA 50312
May 27 - August, 2022
Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA 50312
All Abstracts 2022 International Exhibition
November 21, 2022
Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Bronze Award recipient for "Head Over Heels"
November 21, 2022
Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Bronze Award recipient for "Head Over Heels"
"Full Tilt" 52" x 52" acrylic on canvas
hanging in the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
during the post of U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgystan - Lesslie Viguerie, as part of the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies program
hanging in the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
during the post of U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgystan - Lesslie Viguerie, as part of the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies program
40th Annual All Colorado Art Show
July 8 - August 26, 2023
Curtis Center for the Arts
Painting: "Well, Yellow There"
40" x 40"
Acrylic on canvas
July 8 - August 26, 2023
Curtis Center for the Arts
Painting: "Well, Yellow There"
40" x 40"
Acrylic on canvas