""I want to make a rainbow out of trash," says Ryan Evans, an artist based in the suburbs of South Jersey who is creating just that. Except this isn't the work of a collage artist literally taking trash and refashioning it across a canvas like a school project, but a collage-style illustrator who takes the excess of consumerism and meme imagery to create dense, multi-coloured portraits of our visual culture."
""Whether it's piggy banks on cardboard, renders of ritalin bottles on data sheets or the Internet Explorer logo drawn over a weeping Statue of Liberty, it's clear to see Ryan's sense of humour elevates his daily doomscroll into something vibrant, unlocking passages through a heightened digital world into real emotion. "I ask myself what I want to see. Is it some type of visual joke I want to make or a piece of nostalgia I'd like to parody?""
Ryan Evans uses colored pencils and acrylic paint to create collage-style portraits assembled from consumer excess, meme imagery, and discarded ephemera. He often works directly on McDonald's receipts, parking tickets, cardboard, and data sheets to incorporate everyday detritus into dense, multi-colored compositions. Imagery ranges from pink assault rifles and piggy banks to Ritalin bottle renders and an Internet Explorer logo over a weeping Statue of Liberty, linking absurd, nostalgic, and violent visual cues. Humour and satire coexist with sincerity as playful parodies unlock emotional passages through heightened digital culture. Inspirations include The Matrix, Nicolas Cage films, Death Stranding 2, and Peter Saul.
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