You’ve heard “write what you know,” Audrey Ryan paints who she knows.Through bold strokes she captures her tenacious acquaintances and her true self.
“So much of art is trying to make a personal connection,” says Audrey Ryan. “The most frustrating thing about the culture in which we live is the huge amount of personal disconnection and emotional disconnection. Through my work I just hope that people feel more connected to someone, not so alienated.”
Ryan wants you to meet her friends.
The artist uses bold brushstrokes to present her audacious cadre of connections.
“I like to paint people who I know because I am more interested in the psychological state behind the body,” Ryan says. “I like to paint people who know me and can take being painted in a not-pretty way.
” Because people tend to gravitate toward people like themselves, the rawness inherent in Ryan’s work matches up with the grittiness of her inner circle. Her subjects all have a seat, nay, stool, at the cool kids table in dive bars around the New York City area, most specifically in Jersey City. Of course, they are inked.
This story is from the November 2016 edition of Inked.
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