Rya Wu Art

proof of life 🌒

How often do you remember to play? I haven't been painting much this year, but when I've given myself permission to just dabble with no expectation of a final product to monetize, I'm reminded why I even started down this path in the first place. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​If it's been a while, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime - then here is your invitation: go play. Follow your curiosity, get silly, get messy, just follow that impulse and revel in the mystery and possibility of it all.

Hiii, I'm still alive! Just been busy starting a gallery and event space the past 6+ months. Can y'all believe it's already September?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Some things I've learned along the way:

• There is no such thing as failure, only learning. The gallery I was trying to start a year ago wasn't the right fit, and as soon as I let go of it, happened.

• The more specific I am about what I am dreaming of, the quicker and more accurately does the world around me shift to reflect it.

• I literally cannot do any of this without help. And the more comfortable I get with asking and receiving help, the more the dream grows to encompass all that we are dreaming of collectively.

Any of this resonate with you? Would love to hear your experiences!

more soon
Xx, rya

Something new for y'all tomorrow. Inspired by 's new stained glass art made by .glass.light 😘

Come on this Saturday 5-8pm to see this 48x60 beauty in person. Part of my latest series, Falling into Place, exploring the journey of finding home both externally here on Duwamish land, and internally within one's own selfhood.

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What are your thoughts about location and identity? Home and belonging? How do you find a sense of home within yourself?

Comment below, or better yet, sing or speak about it this weekend at our open mic 🖤

Join us this Saturday for an evening of art, live music by , and poetry reading from local writers and poets .fountain and more!

Bring your short story, poetry, guitar, kazoo and share your talents for an intimate open mic night. All ages welcome.

Falling into Place: Art + Open Mic
09.24 5-8PM

Upstairs by Off Alley
4909 Rainier Ave S,
Columbia City, Seattle, WA

What a fun group for our mural this past Friday! Swipe through for some cuteness! It will be up for another few weeks for visitors and workshop attendees at so check out their upcoming offerings!

Much thanks to Carol and Ramona of BIPOC STAHC for hosting, and for everyone who joined us!

Next group mural workshop will be in November. Stay tuned! Xx

Heart Clearing
48x48
Acrylic on Canvas

This beauty is inspired by tropical storms, the raging sea, and the feeling in the air after a thunderstorm.

Available for purchase, at ryaart.com

Stole this photo from hehe. I just wanted to pop on and say thank you. I KEEP meeting beautiful people and amazing opportunities and sometimes just end up splat on the ground with the wind knocked outta me because wow.

More soon Xx

P.S. If you're interested in having this living, interactive communal sculpture in your cafe/ gallery/ lobby/ event/ etc slide into my dms or email [email protected]

Let's keep dreaming together ☁️

Hello from Lapland and the Arctic Circle! It's so beautiful up here, with a thriving art scene. If you ever get the chance to visit it's the stuff of fairy tales.

Xx,
Rya

Ultima Thule by Finnish design couple Tapio Wirkkala and Rut Bryk, 1967

I know I always say this but I am just so, so grateful and humbled and moved and heartened to be on this journey with y'all. Thank you guys for being my cheerleaders, my collectors, my colleagues, patrons, peers, guides, mentors, friends, and chosen family. Thanks for being my peoples 🤍 I am one lucky bug.

I'm off to visit Santa Claus in Lapland with my mister! And so wildly excited to soak up all the inspiration we come across along the way.

Be back in September in time for our group show at .camp.studios featuring all femme artists exploring the female gaze co-curated with More deets soon 😘

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Last show this weekend until I'm off to Europe on Monday. Gosh, look at these windows! I'm going to miss this space while I'm away, but so grateful for all that this space has been for me. Excited to be back in September, full of inspiration for a new body of work!

So often as a creator there's this pressure to perfect and curate and essentially control what is seen/received/perceived. There's this rush towards the finish line, when sometimes it's okay to let there be white space, let there be breathing room, room for possibility, room for the next step, room for (gasp!) error even.

I've been playing with this inspired series since last October and rather than becoming more and more "masterful", I'm finding the desire to leave more and more blank. I had found a recipe that worked, and then I got bored. Not that I'm pushing the edge of just how "unfinished" I can bear to leave these paintings, I'm on the edge of my seat and giddy, and madly madly curious. So if you're ever finding yourself in a similar position, do something different. No duh, Rya! And then try it another way, and then another way 🙃

Curious how these unfinished pieces are going to turn out? Then get ready for an idyllic summer day trip to the beautiful island of Whidbey for the inaugural art getaway July 9th and 10th. It's a stunning location just a stone's throw from the water with charming shops, galleries, and eateries galore.
See you soon!
Xx,
Rya

When I think about the fact that I've only been on this art journey for about a year and a half, I am just floored by where it's taken me, and utterly grateful for all the friends and chosen family I've found along the way. And as I turn to what's still coming - gosh I am just ecstatic y'all. Big things are a coming! But for now, let's celebrate this moment and all the wins leading up to it. Join me this Saturday afternoon for an impromptu closing reception at .camp.studios to wrap up a magical sculptural debut.

Saturday 7.2 12-4
Birthing a Dream: Closing Reception
Base Camp Studios
2407 1st Ave

Join me and a few fellow creatives this Sunday for an afternoon of unrestrained creative expression! We be throwing, flinging, and splattering paint to our hearts content on a large 5 x 10 foot canvas for some Po***ck inspired fun.

Sunday 6.26 2-4pmcamp.studios
2407 1st Ave

Register at ryaart.com

Join us this Saturday 2-4 .camp.studios for an artist talk and panel, and special movement performance by the lovely .

Excited to share more about my recent foray into sculpture and installation, the process and i soiration behind my current exhibit: Birthing a Dream.

I am honored to be joined by creative mentor and art agent .agent and hearing from their unique perspectives in the art world. You are invited to bring all your questions and curiosities! Let's get nerdy about art, babes 🖤

6.25 2-4pm
Base Camp Studios
2407 1st Ave
Seattle, WA

She shmexy!

So excited to share what I've been up to with y'all ❣️

Birthing a Dream
06.10.22
6-9pm
2401 1st Ave
camp.studios

In the studio today.

Incredibly grateful to all my friends, studio mates, and mentors that have pitched in the last few weeks to help me prep for this Friday's show: Birthing a Dream. So many hands and ears, and hugs and celebration. Grateful for this opportunity, this community, this space, this time, this moment. Can't wait to show you what I've been trying to bring into the world this past month ❤️

Birthing a Dream
by Rya

Outpost Gallery camp.studios
2407 1st Ave

Friday 6.10.22 6-9pm

Mark your calendars friends for Rya Wu's sculptural debut: Birthing a Dream

June 10th 6-9pm

Outpost Gallery at
Base Camp Studios
2407 1st Ave

Graphics by

I'm slowly finding more and more layers of my self that feel ticklish and tender and there's this thrumming in my body that is rumbling and revving to go go gooo.

Excited to share my recent 3D exploration with you next Friday evening at .camp.studios gallery for June's

6.10.22 6-9PM
Base Camp Studios
2407 1st Ave

So excited to be joining the .camp.studios community!Grateful for the opportunity and the space to really flex my wings and see what else is possible 🖤

Big things coming June 10th 6-9PM
Mark your calendars 😘

Section of my sketchbook during yesterday's Intuitive Painting

Acrylic, ink, tempera, graphite
7x10

We practiced letting go of attachment to outcome, and allowing room for unexpected discoveries 💙

Grateful to and the amazing team for supporting young creatives and providing a space for art and community

So excited for this Saturday's intuitive painting workshop over at

If you've been patiently waiting for our next batch, you're in luck!

Just opened up registration at ryaart.com for next month's workshop on June 18th - 7 seats as usual so snag 'em while they're hot! 😘

Xx,
Rya

Sheesh. What a cute-ass night. Big love to all the beautiful people that came out this evening for at to support our fellow artists. Grateful for the new connections and upcoming collaborations. Also, had so much fun making my very first wall sculpture, which would not have happened without the encouragement of my art coach , art mentor and fellow mentees Whee!! On to bigger and more courageous experiments ❣️ As I always say, I am one lucky bug.

Gosh what a fun night ❣️
Grateful for all the new little pockets of community I'm meeting on this art journey.

After fighting a cold for two weeks, I'm finally back in the studio! Can't wait to show you what I've been playing with.

More soon 😘

Xx,
Rya

"Just Visiting"
18x24, mixed media on paper
available for purchase at