Sun Meets Moon and C-Train

Location: Bankers Court 850 2 St SW Calgary, AB

About the work

Sun Meets Moon and C-Train are two-part abstract painting series created for Bankers Court for its opening in 2017 by Canadian artist Bryan Ryley. Designed to reflect the building’s minimalist architecture and Calgary’s urban and prairie identities, the works explore movement, energy, and place.

Both paintings use large vertical forms made with 16-foot squeegees, echoing the building’s columns and suggesting motion across the canvas. Viewed from the street, they create a shifting, kinetic effect, especially for passing vehicles.

Sun Meets Moon, on the light travertine wall, uses bright hues and prairie-inspired imagery, featuring two celestial shapes in dialogue, with black “oil-like” passages referencing Calgary’s natural resources and Indigenous histories.

C-Train, installed on the black granite wall, features saturated reds and dense, urban forms evoking a transit platform. The compositions pull the viewer through the space.

Together, the works balance stillness and motion, referencing both natural and urban energies through abstraction.

Acrylic on canvas

Acrylic on canvas

About the artist

Bryan Ryley is a Canadian artist that works across three medias – painting, drawing, and collage. His work focuses on structural systems and serial compositions, developing new voice with each change of material and scale. The richly textured colour and lyrical tones found in his work is reminiscent of classical modernist abstraction.