“With scattered shapes, ambiguous figures, exuberant strokes as well as delicate traces, my work intertwines suggestions of impermanence and loss with suggestions of intimacy and connection. Titles often suggest states of being: desire, admission, revelation, confusion. In both art and life I think often about the inevitability of contradiction, about how reassurance is so closely linked to uncertainty. My compositions, too, explore a teetering sense of balance…there is obsessive organization along with tipsy interruption…here things are both grounded and floating.” Since earning her Master of Fine Arts from University of Michigan in 2001, Ridl has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Building up significant drawings from a series of tiny papery wrinkles and subtle twists of fabric, she captivates the viewer. The emotional depth and keen observation involved in creating each piece is immediately apparent and warrants considerable admiration. Understated and poignant, Ridl’s drawings are a quiet celebration of the tattered, the overlooked, and the secretly significant.