“A.E. in St. Kitts”: Mixed media constructions by A.E. Ryan

(Foundation display case on the first floor of Brookline Main Library).

This series of work was done by Brookline resident A.E. Ryan while living on the island of St. Kitts as a Fulbright Scholar and Artist-in-Residence with the Ministry of Education of St. Kitts and Nevis.

“As a matter of course, my work merges painting and sculpture, narration and abstraction, real and surreal. It features a myriad of found, reclaimed and recycled objects that evoke a sense of history and mirth that ranges from the magical to the mundane.

These are instinctual pieces with rich, dense surfaces. They speak of architecture, time, imaginary environments, the architecture of the mind, and the relationship of one material to another.

Weaving disparate objects into a unified composition is the challenge, the passion, and the appeal.”