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Ragland is interested in the relationship between things and self, in the way the things in her work become metaphorically connected to the elements that make up the world, the things that make her own existence and others lives. Her paintings, drawings, and sculpture all have a beauty that is as elegant as it is raw and provocative. Her work is not limited to the representation of a self but is a reflection on the relations between self and world.

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Riley Ragland is a contemporary artist that creates work with the central themes of femininity, sexuality, and self. Ragland works with diverse and unconventional mediums such as: flower petals, nail polish, sequin, money, coins and more. In her earlier work, she explores intersections between nature and vaginal imagery. In her later work, she explores beauty and perception of self through still life and different approaches to self portraiture. While her focus has changed, juxtaposition between realism and abstraction has always been a primary focus. She draws inspiration from artists such as: Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannah Wilke, Rene Magritte, and Cindy Sherman. . . . . The exhibition emphasized the changes and transformations within Raglands work over the past few years. The artist has also changed her technique. In the past, Raglands approach to her subject matter was characterized by a call to representality. She often used collage, and in this show she used collage to create photographs that juxtaposed the fact of being alive with images of beauty and sex. For example, in her collages of advertisements and personal photos, Ragland juxtaposed the face of a woman, a cowboy hat, and the silhouette of a vamp. In the past, she has also juxtaposed photographs of a woman with a picture of a tree, a figure from a magazine, and an image of her own breasts. In her collages of photos and documents, Ragland uses collage to combine photographic documents with collaged images of flowers and replicas of femininity. The artist juxtaposes various media, such as film, photographs, collages, and collage, to create a texture of meaning and a relationship between past and present.This show also included Raglands works on paper, which are often larger than life-sized, and which are often juxtaposed with collages. A video in the video was shown in the back room. It shows Ragland mimicking a vamp and attempting to dance in front of a mirror. The camera shows a few dancers as they imitate a vamp, while Raglands hands move slowly across her head, down her body, and up her arms. A video image of the vamp is projected on a nearby wall, and a close-up of her face is projected onto the mirror behind her. The video is accompanied by a drawing of the vamp and a photograph of a vamp, both of which are attached to the wall. The image of the vamp is seen through the mirror behind her, and the drawing of the vamp is on the mirror behind her.

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Riley Ragland is a contemporary artist that creates work with the central themes of femininity, sexuality, and self. Ragland works with diverse and unconventional mediums such as: flower petals, nail polish, sequin, money, coins and more. In her earlier work, she explores intersections between nature and vaginal imagery. In her later work, she explores beauty and perception of self through still life and different approaches to self portraiture. While her focus has changed, juxtaposition between realism and abstraction has always been a primary focus. She draws inspiration from artists such as: Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannah Wilke, Rene Magritte, and Cindy Sherman. The exhibition is divided into three parts, The Perfect Lover, The Second Lover, and The Desire Lover. The Perfect Lover is an installation comprised of nine white silk-screened drawings, each one made up of a series of nine drawings of a woman in a bathing suit and the same number of white silk-screened drawings. Each piece was a separate, separate room, but together they formed a single, separate space. The paintings were arranged in an X arrangement and hung from the ceiling and onto the floor. The silk-screened drawings were of identical size, with all the lines delineating the bodies, in case the viewer were to accidentally step in the same direction as the woman in the bathing suit.The Perfect Lover was a three-part installation, with the silk-screened drawings within each drawing a series of images taken from the Wikipedia article on the subject. Raglands drawings were made by using the model as a point of departure for her own personal drawing, and the same images were used throughout the installation. The drawings were of modest size and, at times, were marked with faint outline marks; some were simply a text, some a photo, some a drawing on a form. One had to look carefully and carefully to discern the names of the sources, but a certain amount of linguistic speculation would result. The images were of the same size as the silk-screened drawings, and the series is made up of two separate sections: an image of a woman in bathing suit, and one of a woman who is wearing the same clothing as the woman in the drawing. The two images share the same body part—the upper body—but the drawing is placed in a more naturalistic style, and the clothing is drawn with great precision and ease. In contrast, the sculpture is constructed out of wax and mirrors, which also lends a naturalistic feeling to the female figure. The wax is placed within a cast of an empty body, and the mirrors add another perspective.

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Riley Ragland is a contemporary artist that creates work with the central themes of femininity, sexuality, and self. Ragland works with diverse and unconventional mediums such as: flower petals, nail polish, sequin, money, coins and more. In her earlier work, she explores intersections between nature and vaginal imagery. In her later work, she explores beauty and perception of self through still life and different approaches to self portraiture. While her focus has changed, juxtaposition between realism and abstraction has always been a primary focus. She draws inspiration from artists such as: Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannah Wilke, Rene Magritte, and Cindy Sherman. .........................................................Read about Rene Magritte in The New York Times!...........................Rene Magritte: The Art of Rembrandt, 1952–1961, an exhibition curated by Lelia Ammerich at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, offers a window on the artists work, from her early abstractions, to her later paintings and wall pieces. The exhibition, which was curated by Christine Y. Kim and Pia J. Alvarez, provides a useful and illuminating overview of Magritte and her work in both her art and life.Magritte began her career as an artist in the early 20s, when she was still an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first solo show was in New York in 1953, and she had to move on from that city because she was seriously ill with tuberculosis. She returned to New York after a two-year stay, and in 1956 founded the Studio Art Society. The name of the organization, which she continued to run until her death, was an acronym for Rembrandt Studio. The first major exhibition organized by the group was held in 1959, and included paintings and drawings, and a retrospective of Magritte as well as of many of her friends and acquaintances. Since the group was created in response to the historicization of the arts by the government, art was considered a political tool in the 50s, and it was considered a political act in the 60s. The group, which had at one time included a number of women, was also very much an ensemble. It was composed of artists of varying political affiliations, from Lucille Ball to Niele Toroni. The group included artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Sarah Charlesworth, and Judy Chicago. The group was open to the possibility of collaboration, and although there were disagreements among the members, they worked together to create art that they would be happy to have seen as an exhibition.

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Riley Ragland is a contemporary artist that creates work with the central themes of femininity, sexuality, and self. Ragland works with diverse and unconventional mediums such as: flower petals, nail polish, sequin, money, coins and more. In her earlier work, she explores intersections between nature and vaginal imagery. In her later work, she explores beauty and perception of self through still life and different approaches to self portraiture. While her focus has changed, juxtaposition between realism and abstraction has always been a primary focus. She draws inspiration from artists such as: Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannah Wilke, Rene Magritte, and Cindy Sherman. The show included some of the most recent work in the show. Ragland is still using gold leaf, which she applies directly to the wall and covers with glitter, often with gold leaf also used in her earlier work. These glittery materials, which evoke memory, recall the old master images of gold leaf, and are also references to gold, the symbolic value associated with the mother tongue. Some of the glitter appears to be dyed in different colors, creating moody and varied surfaces. In one piece, for example, the gold leaf has been applied to the floor, creating a curious sense of time. A series of pictures of white and gold glittering over a rug are reminiscent of the gold leaf pieces. At the same time, the silver glitter creates an optical and visual illusion, merging a domestic environment with an abstract self-portrait.Raglands interest in the past and her interest in making art about the past have always intersected. Her interest in the past is evident in the way she manipulates the past in relation to the present. The exhibition also included a number of paintings, including two in which she has covered the wall with gold leaf and glitter, creating an ethereal, landscape-like image. Other paintings, such as Untitled, 1990, and Untitled, 1990, look like windows onto the past. In Untitled, 1990, a gold-leaf-covered wall has been covered with glitter and painted a soft, almost transparent sheen. In the paintings, the past is presented in a number of different ways: as an abstract space in which history is depicted, as a metaphor for the past, as a temporal flow, as a past in itself, as a past that is witnessed, and as a past in the imagination.In this show, Ragland has continued to work with the past as a source of inspiration.