Tom Ryan
Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and print media, Tom Ryan’s practice examines the flaws, incompleteness, and incoherence of human sensory perception. Drawing from source material that includes landscape photography, plein air drawing, digital 3D modeling, and death metal typography, his work frames vision as a fragmented experience, contingent on cultural context, informed by individual physiology, and full of imperfect translation. The resulting forms oscillate between traditional modes of spatial illusion and strategies of disruption, defying linear narratives and shifting between articulated concepts and raw sensory data.
Tom Ryan was born and raised in Portland and is currently based in Los Angeles, CA, where he recently completed his MFA at CalArts.
