Artist Opening Reception: Ryan Woodring
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Oct 2, 2025 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
Rochester Art Center
30 Civic Center Dr SE
Event Category
Visual Arts
Details
Face in Clouds, invisible ink is a solo exhibition by NYC-based artist Ryan Woodring. The exhibition encompasses several recent bodies of work that proceed both literally and figuratively out of a reckoning with invisible illness.
The title Face in Clouds, invisible ink refers to an emoji that the artist sends loved ones as shorthand for flare-ups; a simple data point for a diagnostically-avoidant experience. Sending the emoji with the “invisible ink” effect, shatters it into glimmering pixels that reconsolidate only upon touch. The works in this exhibition engage in similar cycles of rendering and refusal, bobbing at the surface of communicable experience in a post-AI landscape of hyper-classification.
