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        Evelyn Rydz (Massachusetts) (see images below) Rydz received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida State University. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University. She has been identified as one of “10 Artists to Watch” by the Boston Globe Magazine. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Massachusetts, Florida, New York, and Nebraska. Rydz works uniquely by first photographing curious elements of any given environment and then using them in varying combinations and forms as a generator for her organic imagery. Acrylic, ink, graphite, and colored pencil are employed to construct her life forms, which appear to be evolving right in front of our eyes. The narratives embedded in her layered lines are descriptions of change, movement, transformation, and adaptation. They are accounts of lineage between one generation and the next, between seemingly unrelated yet interconnected forces, and the relationships that exist within the undefined spaces of the in-betweens. Accumulations of experiences of landscapes record and impress their mark on her memory, leaving the residue and traces of fragments to fuse into fresh conglomerations. These conglomerations develop to embody the matter of hybridity as an inevitable mechanism that continuously affects the intertwining relationships of environment, body, and memory. What is a land’s physical capacity for adaptation to alterations made onto it? What is our own psychological tolerance for change? What seems fragile and impermanent in one instance reveals its dynamic strength in another, still what appears permanent and static at other times is easily humbled in the endless cycles of decay and renewal. |
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