3,2,1 – Ring Baloney | Ryan Ward

Ring toss. Whac-A-Mole. Skee-ball. Hot Shot. Water guns. Guess-my-weight.

Ryan Ward likens the amusement park to our lives unfolding through the news, politics, social media, and, increasingly, firsthand experience. How we strain our eyes to identify truth from a lie, a good-faith intention from manipulation, an honest gesture from pure fabrication, yet these become more and more out of focus. We are in the Hall of Mirrors—the Funhouse…is there a way out?

Ryan Ward, curator of The Maslow Collection in Scranton, recently opened the Ruffed Grouse gallery on Main Street in Narrowsburg.