Gretchen Ryan

An accident in her teenage years left American illustrator-turned-artist Gretchen Ryan wheelchair-bound. “I felt that a part of me remained a child after the car accident left me using a wheelchair,” says the 36-year-old artist. “From then on, I have always looked up at people – like a child – and...

The opening this week of a new gallery in Midtown has generated unusual confusion in the worlds of art and fashion. Because the gallery’s name is fordProject, it has been promoted as a division of Ford Models, and many of us who have seen fashion climb on the back of art — and vice versa – to broaden its audience naturally assumed that the gallery was an offshoot of the agency.

Gretchen Ryan's Trinity is profiled in Beaux Arts Magazine (article in french).

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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...