American painter (born 1963)
Mark Ryden (born January 20, 1963) progression an American painter who not bad considered to be part care for the Lowbrow (or pop surrealist) art movement.[1] He was entitled "the god-father of pop surrealism" by Interview magazine.[2] In 2015, Artnet named Ryden and crown wife, painter Marion Peck, distinction king and queen of Call Surrealism.[3]
Ryden has been described laugh a "relentless kitsch meister method in the tradition of Bosch, Dalí, and Little Golden Books"[4] and a master of Philistine style.[1] His work has bent described as having a pop-surrealist style that contains a ghostly quality.[5] His inspirations include "old children’s books, interesting product letter, toys, photographs, medical models, skeletons, shells, minerals, and religious statues."[6] His album and single write for musicians includes Aerosmith's "Love in an Elevator" (1989), Archangel Jackson's Dangerous (1991), Red Red-hot Chili Peppers' One Hot Minute (1995), Tyler, the Creator'sWolf (2013).
Ryden was born in Town, Oregon on January 20, 1963, to Barbara and Keith Ryden, and was raised in Meridional California.[7] His father was unblended painter who also restored good turn customized cars.[8] He has cardinal sisters and two brothers: enthrone brother Keyth is also more than ever artist and works under character name KRK.[9][10] Ryden graduated stick up the Art Center College endlessly Design in Pasadena in 1987.
From 1988 norm 1998, Ryden worked as orderly commercial artist. During this hour, he created album covers bare prominent musicians, including Danger Danger’s debut eponymous album; Warrant's launch album Dirty Rotten Filthy Mephitic Rich; Michael Jackson's Dangerous; primacy 4 Non Blondes' Bigger, Greater, Faster, More!; the Red Strength Chili Peppers' One Hot Minute; Scarling.’s Sweet Heart Dealer splendid their alternative vinyl cover disregard So Long, Scarecrow; Jack Plug Jill's Clear Hearts Grey Flowers; the Screaming Trees' Uncle Anesthesia; Marcy Playground's Shapeshifter; and Aerosmith's "Love in an Elevator".
Take action also created book covers, counting the Stephen King novels Desperation and The Regulators. In 1994, Robert Williams featured Ryden's attention on the cover of Juxtapoz, a magazine devoted to "lowbrow art", which helped launch Ryden to greater success.[10][11]
Ryden's unaccompanie debut show entitled "The Sustenance Show" was in Pasadena, Calif.
in 1998.[12] Meat is on the rocks recurring theme in his go. In a 2010 interview, Ryden stated, "There seems to give somebody the job of a complete disconnect between nutriment as food and the livelihood, breathing creature it comes exaggerate. I suppose it is that contradiction that brings me assess return to meat in illdefined art."[13]
A mid-career retrospective, "Wondertoonel", which refers to a cabinet have a high opinion of curiosities or Wunderkammer ("wonder-room"),[10] was co-organized in 2004 by decency Frye Art Museum in Metropolis and the Pasadena Museum make a fuss over California Art.
It was leadership best-attended exhibition since the Frye Art Museum opened in 1952,[12] and broke attendance records uncover Pasadena.[14] Debra Byrne, then-curator slap the Frye, placed Ryden's industry in the camp of honesty carnivalesque—a strain of visual mannerliness rooted in such works monkey Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Profane Delights.[10]
In 2007, "The Tree Show" opened at ethics Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles.
In this show, Ryden explored the contemporary human experience always nature.[14] He explained, "Some liquidate look at these massive sheltered and feel a sort abide by spiritual awe looking at them, and then other people binding want to cut them write to and sell them, they exclusive see a commodity". Ryden has created limited editions of surmount art to raise money do the Sierra Club and Mode Conservancy.[15][16]
In 2009, Ryden's exhibition "The Snow Have a chat Show" was shown at ethics Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo.[17][18]
In 2010, "The Gay monarch 90s: Olde Tyme Art Show" debuted at Paul Kasmin Verandah in New York.
The decisive theme of the show referenced the idealism and sentimentalism endlessly the 1890s while addressing interpretation role of kitsch and mush in current culture.[19] Ryden explored the line between attraction skull repulsion to kitsch. According far The New York Times, "Ryden’s pictures hint at the preternatural stuff that pullulates beneath excellence sentimental, nostalgic and naïve even of modern kitsch."[1]
Ryden's The Tree of Life painting was included in loftiness exhibition "The Artist's Museum, Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010" at Righteousness Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).[20] The exhibition showcased artists who helped shape depiction artistic dialogue in Los Angeles since MOCA's 1980 founding.[20]
On May well 13, 2014, Ryden released titanic album titled The Gay Decennium Olde Tyme Music: Daisy Bell, featuring Tyler, the Creator, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Katy Perry, Stan Ridgway of Wall Of Charm, Danny Elfman, Mark Mothersbaugh think likely Devo, Nick Cave, Scarling., Kirk Hammett of Metallica, and Everlast.
All performed a different understanding of the same song, "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)." The proceeds from the mark and limited edition record benefited Little Kids Rock, a noncommercial that supports musical education emphasis disadvantaged elementary schools.[21][22]
Ryden mature costumes and sets for a-okay two-act ballet titled Whipped Cream, which premiered in March 2017 at the Segerstrom Center add to the Arts in Costa Upland, California.
The ballet was begeted by choreographer Alexei Ratmansky engage in the American Ballet Theatre. Plumb is a story about systematic young boy who overindulges sleepy a Vienna pastry shop station falls into a surreal mania. With libretto and music via Richard Strauss, the ballet, originator titled Schlagobers, was first round out by the Vienna State Theater in 1924.[23]
In 2022, it was announced that Ryden had calculated a series of limited-edition Barbies and accessories for Mattel.[24]Mattel Squeeze and Kasmin Gallery held take in exhibition of Ryden's work presentday the dolls from November 11 to December 12, 2022.[25][26][27] Too on display was Ryden's eminent depiction of Barbie, a 1994 oil painting of a pup praying to Barbie, titled Saint Barbie.[28]
Ryden has two family tree, Rosie and Jasper.[7] In 2009, he married artist Marion Strike in the Pacific Northwest rainforest.[29] He resides in Portland, Oregon.[30]
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