The Landing is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Jonathan Ryan. Building on his 2018 two-person show at the Landing, this will be his debut Los Angeles solo exhibition. Jonathan Ryan paints fictitious spaces — physical, optical, cerebral, and psychological. In this exhibition of new work, Ryan continues his painterly investigation of landscape and architecture by combining perspectival depth with textured surfaces. The seemingly straightforward trompe l’oeil effects are complicated by layers of sand and gravel, disorienting the paintings’ depicted sense of scale, as well as the viewer’s. Equally informed by seemingly opposing aesthetics and art histories such as prehistoric architecture and Art Deco, or Sol Lewitt and Josef Albers, Ryan finds commonalities across references which could only be discovered through the material process of painting. Jonathan Ryan was born 1989 in Buffalo, NY. He received his BFA from Louisiana State University and MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Ryan has exhibited across the US including a two-person exhibition with Mattea Perrotta at the Landing and exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), the Brand Library (Glendale, CA), Gallery ALSO (Los Angeles, CA), Seymour 2017 (Los Angeles, CA), Field Projects (New York, NY), San Diego Art Institute (San Diego, CA), and the Woodmere Art Museum (Philadelphia, PA). He has received fellowships and awards from Woodmere Museum of Art, Tyler School of Art, Vermont Studio Center, and LSU School of Art. Ryan lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.