Nick Ryan Gallery presents Interdimensional, a summer group exhibition featuring Galen Cheney (North Adams, MA), Lydia Farrell (Littleton, CO), Jodi Hays (Nashville, TN), Lisa Rock (Bay Area, CA), Andy Ryan (Kansas City, MO), and Lucas Thomas (Denver, CO). Interdimensional explores the convergence of six artists whose work spans abstraction and representation, the natural and the supernatural, and transitions from two-dimensional to three-dimensional forms.
Galen Cheney’s work is a unrestrained blend of painting, collage, and weaving, while Jodi Hays creates collages using materials such as cardboard, textiles, and paint. Both artists employ mixed media to explore the transmission of fleeting ideas and experiences through combinations of color, texture, and pattern.
Other works in the exhibition utilize bold oil paint to transform the mundane into strange and startling visions: Lydia Farrell renders suburban life in an inverted, hallucinogenic color palette, while Lisa Rock uses vibrant contrasts to depict the relationship between plants and the built environment.
Andy Ryan captures forces of energy and movement in watercolor, with a depth of color and texture that seems to balloon off the surface of the paper. In contrast, Lucas Thomas’s meticulously detailed acrylics on panel depict surreal and compelling scenes where animals, plants, and organic forms interact with objects and structures evoking a spiritual or ritualistic quality. Alongside his paintings are fired ceramics and sculptural objects—some of which appear within the paintings themselves or echo visual motifs—bridging his two- and three-dimensional work.
Across all the works, the artists grapple with alternate visions and perceptions of the places, objects, and beings we encounter in life. The exhibition’s title not only refers to the distinct realities conjured by each artist, but also to the relationship between two- and three-dimensionality in the show—inviting viewers to consider the unique ways each of us experiences the world.
