Ryan Schroeder received his B.F.A. from Drake University in 2001 and has continued his artistic training with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky in Italy and the USA. Since 2008, he has been awarded fellowships from several institutions including MacDowell, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Millay Colony, The Marsyas Fund for Visual Artists, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. His work, as described by The New York Times, "dazzles with its technical virtuosity." Recent exhibitions include “Nothing to See/Hear,” a solo exhibition of new works at Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art's “Peekskill Project 2008,” and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning's “Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows 2007.” The urban environment as a whole, and specifically the evidence that remains from its consumer activity, is the basis of his aesthetic research. His work exists simultaneously in a state of creation and destruction, absorption and expansion.
Ryan Schroeder
Studios
Heinz
Ryan Schroeder worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…