Ryan Runcie: Cut for Clarity

December 07 - January 12,2025

From GrayDuck Gallery:

"Relationships are the cornerstone of our lives. We all desire to be understood and seek to understand. Cut for Clarity explores how we transform ourselves and reform others to fit into our lives. Like a brilliant gemstone, when the many facets of our personality are illuminated, we feel fulfilled and seen. Each of us lives a complex and unique experience that makes us beautiful.

Cut for Clarity is about the work we go through to find who and what we mean to the world; finding the perfect place where we may shine our brightest.

Bio:

I am a studio artist, muralist, and a public art administrator local to Austin, Texas but find myself traveling constantly for the creation and engagement of art. I find that no matter what topics I express in my work, my foundation is always a posture of seeking to understand.  It is my hope that I may play a role, no matter how humble, in beginning a cultural shift in how we view ourselves and each other.  My work is where I feel the most free to be vulnerable and engage my own biases and insecurities and in doing so, I enable others to get a little vulnerable too.

Being born to Jamaican parents in small-town Texas, I feel fortunate to have the confusing experience of growing up as a first-generation American man. I was able to, in my youthful ignorance, test and blur lines that I didn't know existed.  My art is a tenuous and experimental engagement in blurring these lines on a public scale; allowing the loose expression of color to sidestep the mind's need to categorize and understand in accordance with race, ethnicity, and stereotypes.  My goal is to give you a moment to point to your impression of this artwork and to ask, "In this, what is the intention of my heart?" and maybe learn to empathize a little bit better."

Reception: December 07, 2024 | 7-10 pm

grayduck gallery 2213 East Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX 78702
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