Fine Art | Ryder Graphics - Design studio, Auckland, New Zealand

Fine Art

Gallery

Reference Point
2010
Acrylic on board,
450 x 2000 x 35mm.
Frame 100yr old kauri cupboard door, wax finish

SOLD

Merchant / Plan
2012
Oil on plywood panel. 40cmx40cm.
Framed with vintage wooden rulers.

Plan
2012. Oil on ply.
40cmx40cm.
Framed with vintage wooden rulers.

Boundary
2012.
Oil on canvas. 30cmx100cm.

Lintel/Block/Beam
2012. Oil on canvas. 120cmx40cm, framed

SOLD

Moonover
2013
Oil on canvas. 100cm x 100cm

Bridge
2013
Oil on canvas, 100cm x 100cm

Bunker
2013
Oil on canvas, 75cm x 100cm, framed

SOLD

Review
Threshold
22 February - 21 March 2013

Duncan Ryder is a fulltime graphic designer and his art reflects that practice; precise clear lines, sharp definition, geometric forms that mimic architectural plans and careful delineation of paint. Ryder was born in London and emigrated to New Zealand in 1972 and later, after graduating, operated for many years as a graphic designer in a studio located in Auckland while keeping his hand in as a painter. Now Waikato based, The recent exhibition, Threshold is his second show at the gallery that sees him exhibit a recent collection of eleven works created in the year just gone.

The central, largest and best piece in the show is a triptych entitled Lintel/Block/Beam. The link to the world of construction and planning is obvious. In the left hand panel, scratched into the paint is even the floor-plan of some building which recalls something of the same from the early surrealist works of de Chirico. These hatching marks provide aesthetic contrast to the careful and meticulous handing of the paintwork. Forms abut one another on the right hand panel in a dynamic contra way that play with visual notation and compositional disjunction. The cropping is severe and lends an element of mystery while the solid versus transparent annotation introduce a nice binary foil. At the same time colour harmonies of a minimalist kind lend a real cohesiveness to the piece as a whole, the abstract forms set off against 3D configurations supply a satisfying keyed frisson.

A suite of smaller works continue the theme of architectural mass and formation against flat backgrounds, appearing as models or prototypes of structures that engage with angle and perspective. Blocks and shapes appear to have a strong connection to elements that might easily have come out of small details from The Disquieting Muses, 1925 or Metaphysical Interior with Cookies, 1958.

There is nothing metaphysical about these works, but they do engage the eye in arresting and satisfying ways. Their titles - Gate, Space, Ambit, Threshold, Plan and Tower - all take the viewer back to the drawing board. What takes them beyond that confine is their painterly treatment blended with an inventive compositional format.

A show well worth a look. A painter to watch.

Peter Dornauf

Read more: http://www.eyecontactsite.com/2013/03/ryder-paintings#ixzz2SlAUoMZA

Jewel1
2013
Oil on canvas, 70cmx55cm.

Place
2013
Oil on canvas, 75cmx75cm

Stack
2013.
Oil on canvas. 40cm x 40cm

Jewel2
Jewel2
2013
Oil on canvas, 70cmx55cm.

Triomphe series
Triomphe.
2013
Series of 4. Blue/Red/Yellow/Black
Oil on Canvas, Each canvas = 75cmx75cm.
Available as a set or individually by request.

Triomphe
2013
Yellow
Oil on canvas. 75cmx75cm

Threshold
2012
Oil on ply, 40cmx40cm.

Nikau
2012
Oil on ply. 45cm40cm

Tower
2012
Oil on ply. 40cmx80cm

Pioneer
2012
Oil on ply panel. 40cmx40cm.
Framed with vintage wooden rulers.

SOLD

Ambit
2012
Oil on canvas, 40cmx40cm
Framed.

SOLD

Gate
2013
Oil on canvas. 40cmx40cm
Framed.

SOLD

Pool
2012.
Oil on canvas. 60cmx60cm

f:24
2012.
Oil on canvas. 60cmx60cm

Outer Edge
2008
Oil on Canvas, Diptych
500 x 1000mm

SOLD

Exhibition Apr 2011
On The Line, The framing Workshop, April 2011. An exhibition of work inspired by landscape and road trips. A simple line on paper is usually a starting point for an idea and expands to so many references, a horizon, measurement, division, etched surfaces and concludes in the line of paintings presented to the viewer in the gallery.

Exhibition Feb/Mar 2013
THRESHOLD | 22 FEBRUARY - 21 MARCH 2013

When I started to put down some thoughts and describe in words what this exhibition is about I realised that actually I've always had an interest in buildings. In fact the whole process of building, architectural design, construction and all the nuisances that go with detail within a structure. Some of my earlier work reflections in skyscraper glass or an old window or door and its aged patina of paint. I look at a landscape now and I see the buildings on it, a focus for the eye. It is these buildings, often farm dwelling or utility that is the source of what has shaped the land around. It is this connection between natural and man-made the space around these objects, exploring materials and boundaries, a wall or fence divide. How we view this changing shape, colour and texture as light glances off surface structures. The raw materials used, blocks, lintels, beams and the surfaces, new or distressed over time.

THRESHØLD |Thresh(h)old|
- a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room.
- a point of entry or beginning.
- the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested : nothing happens until the signal passes the threshold | a threshold level.

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