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Artists who obscure and bury meaning do so in a way that encourages viewers to adopt an archaeological or exploratory process to reach understanding; an understanding that is their own, aligned with the artist’s intention, or suspended somewhere between.

Ryan Cosbert is a research led artist producing vivid work that holds significant meaning within its bold physicality. To understand her painting is to follow two primary modes of investigation. The first opens up a dialogue with an academic, an explorer of social and political interchanges that have formed the basis of entire communities …