BIOGRAPHY 
Abbey Ryan's painting work has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine's "Live Your Best Life—Women Who Make Beautiful Things," Seth Godin's bestseller, Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?, and FOX's Good Day Philadelphia. Through her blog, Abbey's work is in over seven hundred private and public collections all over the world.
Abbey's art practice is two-fold: Her alla prima painting project speaks to her interest in practice and traditional oil painting in relation to the complexities of globalization. The conceptual backbone of Abbey's studio work stems from her experiences growing up on the shores of the Atlantic and scuba diving in the warm waters of the North Pacific. In a broad sense, her work reflects the friction and fragility intrinsic to places like these.
Abbey was born and raised in New Jersey, USA. She completed undergraduate work in both science and art at Arcadia University and post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Art Students League of New York, and Hunter College/CUNY. Her work can be found at Gleason Fine Art, Tree’s Place, Mason Murer Fine Art, and Tercera Gallery.
In addition to working in her studio in Philadelphia, Abbey teaches workshops nationally, as well as studio art at Arcadia University. When she's not painting, Abbey loves hiking with her black lab Blue and spending time with her family.
Meet Abbey in this video, and visit RyanStudio.blogspot.com
to view her work.
"If 'How much is enough?' is the subversive question for the consumer society,
'How can I hear my own heart?' is the key assault on the Information Age."
-Bill McKibben, introduction to Walden by Thoreau