Evelyn Rydz

Rydz (b. 1979, Miami) creates intricate drawings based on her own photographs. In recent works she has focused her attention on objects she finds washed up on coastlines worldwide, including in Cartagena, Colombia,
Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Miami, and Boston. Exploring the site where sea meets land, she is absorbed by these “characters with long stories to tell.”

Rydz gets close to the ground to photograph the found tableaux from an eye-level perspective. She includes the sea as a faint line in the distance in the finely detailed graphite and color pencil drawings that ultimately result from this process. The artist references the journey and transformation that these objects have undergone, illuminating their role as castaways in foreign landscapes.

For the ICA, Rydz presents two new groups of drawings—Castaways and Drifting Islands—which respond specifically to the Boston coastline.

Rydz received a BFA from Florida State University in 2001and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2005. She is Assistant Professor in Studio Foundation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

LINKS
evelynrydz.com

NEWS
Q&A with Evelyn Rydz, New American Paintings blog