Ryan Gdovin

Materiality

Image: Photo: Griffin Gdovin

Video: Drawing up my estrogen, with my glass bandaid around my neck.

Cinematography: Rosalina Michele

Video: Injecting my hormones in my tshirt, jean shorts, and glass slippers.

Cinematography: Rosalina Michele

Image: Glass Bow, Later knotted and used as a trim.

Image: Harden My Blood, It Will Flow Forever.

The backs of my bandaids, post injection, scanned, graphed, and beaded.

Image: Photo: Bali Chu-Mehrer
Model: Ian Nicastro

Image: Full Reflection on ryangdovin.com

Image: Photo: Justica Wilson

Bio

Ryan Gdovin is a Pennsylvania born artist, currently residing in New York. Her work is an exchange between body, energy, and material, in an effort to solidify ideas into objects of permanence.

Through materials such as glass, textile, watercolor, and photo, she navigates and documents her trans experience as well as moments of hand work and isolation.

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