Rylan Morrison, "Highway"
$200. Watercolor on paper, 8” x 6”, 2020.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
“Clown Art” may be perceived as tacky, niche, and often offensive, or disliked decorative “outsider art;” which is a key reason I choose to paint clowns. Wrestling with my own illusions of what makes a “real” artist; in regards to education, gender, (and certainly not a working mother,) I challenge my existential dilemma by having to make art to survive. Survive, what spiritually I resolve as, “the big joke,” or the human experience in capitalism. Through manufactured environments in which colorful clown heads are inflated to overwhelm time and space; the physics of the comedic and somewhat horrific scene represent the lack of seriousness we tend to approach the “scale” of our impact. Painting joyful, innocent, colorful, expressive clown figures is a way to escape from my own violent response of having to perform, mask, entertain, humor, and juggle for others.
Artist Bio
Born in Glens Falls, NY in 1979 Rylan Venegas was raised by a single father who was the Saratoga Springs Harness Track Photographer while her mother, an artist, pursued a career in New York City. At 13 years old she joined her mother in the West Village. Rylan received a BA in Media Studies at Hunter College. As the daughter of a working artist, Rylan's exposure to the New York City art world of the 1980s through today served as her formal art education. A deep exploration in improv comedy, a history of zine production, and a recent discovery of short film and electronic music is in tandem to the continued practice of figurative and abstract painting, by which she is self taught. As a single mother of two young children living in Queens, New York Rylan draws upon the tragedy and comedy of motherhood, capitalism and nature.
$200. Watercolor on paper, 8” x 6”, 2020.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
“Clown Art” may be perceived as tacky, niche, and often offensive, or disliked decorative “outsider art;” which is a key reason I choose to paint clowns. Wrestling with my own illusions of what makes a “real” artist; in regards to education, gender, (and certainly not a working mother,) I challenge my existential dilemma by having to make art to survive. Survive, what spiritually I resolve as, “the big joke,” or the human experience in capitalism. Through manufactured environments in which colorful clown heads are inflated to overwhelm time and space; the physics of the comedic and somewhat horrific scene represent the lack of seriousness we tend to approach the “scale” of our impact. Painting joyful, innocent, colorful, expressive clown figures is a way to escape from my own violent response of having to perform, mask, entertain, humor, and juggle for others.
Artist Bio
Born in Glens Falls, NY in 1979 Rylan Venegas was raised by a single father who was the Saratoga Springs Harness Track Photographer while her mother, an artist, pursued a career in New York City. At 13 years old she joined her mother in the West Village. Rylan received a BA in Media Studies at Hunter College. As the daughter of a working artist, Rylan's exposure to the New York City art world of the 1980s through today served as her formal art education. A deep exploration in improv comedy, a history of zine production, and a recent discovery of short film and electronic music is in tandem to the continued practice of figurative and abstract painting, by which she is self taught. As a single mother of two young children living in Queens, New York Rylan draws upon the tragedy and comedy of motherhood, capitalism and nature.
$200. Watercolor on paper, 8” x 6”, 2020.
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
“Clown Art” may be perceived as tacky, niche, and often offensive, or disliked decorative “outsider art;” which is a key reason I choose to paint clowns. Wrestling with my own illusions of what makes a “real” artist; in regards to education, gender, (and certainly not a working mother,) I challenge my existential dilemma by having to make art to survive. Survive, what spiritually I resolve as, “the big joke,” or the human experience in capitalism. Through manufactured environments in which colorful clown heads are inflated to overwhelm time and space; the physics of the comedic and somewhat horrific scene represent the lack of seriousness we tend to approach the “scale” of our impact. Painting joyful, innocent, colorful, expressive clown figures is a way to escape from my own violent response of having to perform, mask, entertain, humor, and juggle for others.
Artist Bio
Born in Glens Falls, NY in 1979 Rylan Venegas was raised by a single father who was the Saratoga Springs Harness Track Photographer while her mother, an artist, pursued a career in New York City. At 13 years old she joined her mother in the West Village. Rylan received a BA in Media Studies at Hunter College. As the daughter of a working artist, Rylan's exposure to the New York City art world of the 1980s through today served as her formal art education. A deep exploration in improv comedy, a history of zine production, and a recent discovery of short film and electronic music is in tandem to the continued practice of figurative and abstract painting, by which she is self taught. As a single mother of two young children living in Queens, New York Rylan draws upon the tragedy and comedy of motherhood, capitalism and nature.