About Rob Ryan
I am a Boston area artist working in the genre commonly known as "low-brow" or "pop-surrealism", a thriving new genus of art that found a name and popularity on the west coast during the early 1990s. This new sub-sect has become highly admired among many collectors, entertainers, and youth-orientated sub-cultures.
However, I break from the pattern of low-brow and pop-surrealism by developing strategies that deliberately communicate subject matter loaded with sociological and psychological undertones derived from my life. I believe in painting what you know... and whom you've known.
Exhibitions & Commissions
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2007 - Dec, The second major commissioned piece of 2007 is completed "Tension"; egg tempera, oil, glitter, enamel, on canvas.
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2007 - Aug Commission, "All the Things You Ran From"
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2007 - April, Picks of the Harvest - Batch Four", ThinkSpace Gallery
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2005 - SOWA Art Walk, Boston, MA
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2004 - SOWA Art Walk, Boston, MA
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2004 - Bridgewater State 40th Annual Student Art Exhibition
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2003 - 37th Annual Juried Exhibition; Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA.
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2003 17th Annual Parkside Small Print Exhibition; Parkside, WI.
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2002 - 36th Annual Juried Exhibition; Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA.
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2001 - Quincy Art Fest; Quincy, MA.
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1999 - Massachusetts College of Art; “Animation Festival”; Boston, MA.
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1998 - Globe Scholastic Art Awards: Boston, MA,
Awards
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Doris Tebbits Memorial Art Award. 2003.
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Best of Show: 37th Annual Juried Exhibition; Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA. 2003.
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Honorable Mention: 36th Annual Juried Exhibition; Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA. 2002.
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Honorable Mention: National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Talent Search; 1998.
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Evelyn Sylvester Art Award, Weymouth, MA, 1998.
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Gold Key; Globe Scholastic Art Awards: Boston, MA, 1998.
Education
2012
MBA
Babson College
2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bridgewater State University
1998 - 2001
Massachusetts College of Art
Painting