“Typography, color and texture. Is there really anything else?”
Ryan has been producing these works since 2002 to help people to see art in their everyday life that they would normally overlook, but don’t realize it.
Ryan received my BFA in Graphic Design / Visual Communication from Kansas State University in Fall 1999. This sparked a real love for typography, process, balance and color study.
From 2000-2012 he worked as a designer for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. Designer of licensed and non-licensed cards, paper engineering, gift wrap & party-ware, ornaments and gifts. There were many, and continue to be identity projects, layout, CD design, logo, t-shirt and interior designs.
Since leaving the corporate world, inspired everyday, he layers paper and paint, bringing together elements of theme, subject and tone.
“These are the paintings of nolstalgia and comforting memory.”
Ryan lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with a beautiful loving wife and 2 wonderful children despite their contempt for their parents. (teenagers now.)
