Calli Ryan
calliryan.bsky.social
Calli Ryan
@calliryan.bsky.social
Painter in Philadelphia
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Waiting Up, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
14 by 10 inches / 35.5 cm by 25.5 cm

This piece is included in Looking In, Looking Out - a group exhibition ending July 10 at @monya_rowe_gallery along with work by some of my favorite painters ever.
July 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Commute, 2019-2025
Acrylic on Linen
24 x 35 inches / 61 x 89 cm

I was trying to capture the precious moments before and after work when the sun is particularly beautiful, and also the tragedy that our society is set up so that 99% of us have so little time to feel alive.
April 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thinning of the veil
20 x 16 in / 51 x 40.5 cm, acrylic and oil on linen, 2025

The title refers the belief that the boundary between the physical and spiritual worlds thins during fall and winter.
February 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Cloisters
16 x 12 in / 40.6 x 30.5 cm, oil on linen, 2023-5
February 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Sleepwalker waking still 24 x 16 in / 61 x 40.5 cm, acrylic and oil on cotton, 2018-5
January 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Snow faintly falling upon all the living and the dead
24 x 30 in / 61 x 76 cm, acrylic and oil on linen, 2025

This is a larger take on a small painting I did in 2022. The title comes from a line from the last paragraph of The Dead by James Joyce
January 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM