With a professional career spanning over 3 and a half decades Taos, New Mexico
painter Victoria Ryan has produced an evolving body of work that has been
continuously exhibited and has gained accolades and placement in private and
corporate collections worldwide.
Victoria lived much of her life in California, having studied at Art Center College of
Design, Otis Art Institute and ultimately earning a BFA in Painting and Drawing from
California State University at Long Beach. Her early work in soft pastel was noted
immediately for its crossover themes from representation into abstraction. In 1984,
just two years out of college her entry into The International Art Competition, an
exhibition held in conjunction with the Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, earned
her a Silver Medal for her abstract pastel drawings. Acceptance into museum
exhibitions followed including The Julia Morgan Memorial Exhibition of California
Women Artists at The Riverside Art Museum.
Victoria weaves together thoughtful patterns of color, light, line and texture to create visual
stories that are powerful and beautiful. Her empathic ability to incorporate a psychological and
spiritual viewpoint into her abstract landscapes is both palpable and relatable.
Now living and painting in her rustic studio in Taos her most spiritous and
introspective work is being realized.
October, 2019 Taos New Mexico