LIZA RYAN

ANA MENDIETA

September 2 – October 16, 2004

GRIFFIN is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of photo-based work and video by Liza Ryan with a film from 1980 by Ana Mendieta in the west gallery.

Ryan's latest series addresses the one-dimensionality of observation.  For Ryan, looking is not always enough.  Often there is a desire for interaction with what is being seen, an impulse to merge with the observed.  Immersion and the idea of becoming or being transformed into that which is seen is introduced within the content of the work, but also through the process of art making. By cutting into or adding onto the surface of the photographs, Ryan pushes the limits of the photographic surface.

Ryan’s work was recently included in an exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth and has been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, and the Maison Européen de la Photographie, Paris.  Liza Ryan lives and works in Los Angeles, California.