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ABOVE: Ryan Standfest’s “Alone Together” is part of the BBAC exhibition. RIGHT: Standfest’s “Belief and Fact.”
Artist uses layers and small works in BBAC exhibition BY MARY GENSON mgenson@candgnews.com
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BIRMINGHAM — Detroit artist Ryan Steadfast presents an exhibition at the Birmingham Bloomfield Arts Center that is filled with new pieces that come together to form a cohesive body of work. The exhibition, titled “As then there was no then, so there is none now,” will be displayed at the BBAC until Oct. 30.
Layering color to create meaning
Steadfast was trained as a printmaker at the University
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of Iowa — a background that influences how he works with color. He said he used to avoid color because of the complexities that came along with using color in printmaking. “I’ve been able to finally shed that and dive into color in a way that I’ve been meaning to for many years,” Steadfast said. “I think I always start from a very emotional place. In terms of the colors that I choose, there’s a tone and a mood that I’m trying to establish; they’re bright, but they’re also dark at the same time; they exist in some middle ground for me.” In printmaking, layering is part of the process of build-
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