Exhibition Statement:
‍"Unstuck in Time" presents a series of imagined landscapes by Nicole Renee Ryan that collapse the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Through layered painting and dimensional elements, Ryan constructs environments that reflect how memory reshapes place over time. These abstracted worlds are free of human presence, yet alive with motion. In her work  trees, rocks, and organic forms shift as if unbound by gravity or chronology. Viewers are invited into a contemplative space where the familiar becomes strange, and time becomes fluid.

‍About the Artist:
‍Nicole Renee Ryan is a studio artist who creates imagined landscapes that blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Her exhibition Unstuck in Time explores human-less environments where memory reshapes place. Through layered paint and dimensional elements, Ryan  buils immersive worlds that invite viewers to reflect on time, motion, and imagination. Her work often explores liminal spaces between the familiar and the whimsical, the real and the imagined. Drawing from personal memories and invented scenarios, Ryan's constructs abstract environments where past, present, and future intersect and geographic boundaries dissolve. Ryan’s work has received notable recognition. In 2016 she was nominated for Pittsburgh Emerging Artist of the Year. She has also received a Flight School Fellowship through the Heinz Endowments and a Creative Entrepreneur Grant from Erie Arts & Culture, supporting the continued development of her studio practice. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Heinz History Center, The Butler Museum of American Art, and in a solo exhibition at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Ryan’s artistic process is immersive and intuitive. Working across multiple series simultaneously, she creates evolving landscapes where rocks, trees, and landforms appear to float, shift, and breathe. By removing human figures, she invites viewers into open-ended spaces where memory and imagination intertwine, and the landscape feels alive with possibility.