RYAN MOSLEY

Mosley transposes the sixteenth-century classical Italian theatrical form of the commedia dell'arte into a painted realm inhabited by the ghosts of Goya, Guston, Ensor and the masked grotesques of Tiepolo. Mosley blends the absurd with the disturbing, the pictorial with the theatrical and the protean with the prosaic. Good art changes the way one looks at the world, and Mosley's work, at its best, has the ability to repopulate our world with a burlesque line-up of a troupe of beings from an alternate reality which points up the absurdity and peculiarities of our own. Richard Dyer, Art Review, 2008