First Friday Art Exhibit and Reception for Michael S. Ryan
We invite you to join us for Michael S. Ryan’s Reception and Art Exhibit on Friday, June 3rd, 5:30 to 7:30pm.
Light refreshments and beverages served in the Library (adjacent to the gallery) in the First Street Community Center.
The public is welcome and encouraged to come. Meet Mike and nosh with us, it’s very casual.
Michael S. Ryan has been a painter for 40 plus years. Trained in the late 60s and early 70s as an abstract painter, he has concentrated in the last 30 years on colorist impressionism, featuring both landscape and figurative subject matter.
He studied under Byron Burford, Joseph Patrick, and Michael Tyzack at the University of Iowa, as well as, at Old Dominion University and Drake University.
Ryan is a teacher, as well as, a full time painter. He is widely known for his colorist theories.
You can learn more about Michael at his website.
The artist will be available to visit with. The exhibit will stay up for the rest of the month, until the next reception. We invite the public to join us, no reservation, or fees and dress casual… just come!
We hope you can join us for this special event!
East End Art, located on the second floor of the First Street Community Center. The intent is to bookend First Brick Art Gallery located at the west end of Main Street with the East End Art gallery, establishing Mount Vernon as an art destination by promoting three blocks to shop between the galleries.