Gretchen Ryan

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For the past several years, Los Angeles-based artist Gretchen Ryan has been exploring the uncomfortable issues related to the child beauty pageant industry in the jewel-like portraits she paints of young contestants. Her inspiration comes in part from the fact that she grew up in Boulder, Colorado, just four doors down from Jean Benét Ramsey...