"Willy, The Double Penis Pull Toy"
How many miles to Babylon?
Three score miles and ten
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, and back again.
If yur heels are nimble and light.
Your can get there by candle-light.
- Mother Goose
My graphic work consists of appropriation, amalgamation and distortion of psychologically charged imagery transformed through the process of drawing, sketching and doodling, utilizing cheap and easily available forms of reproduction
By creating fantastic and implausible compositions depicted with humor and irreverence, I explore the relationship between spontaneity and contrivance - committing a sort of static vivisection I engage in a continuous game of exquisite corpse solitaire as a way to surprise and beguile the viewer.
Underling themes are monstrosity, ambiguity, metamorphosis and decay – not necessarily in the biological sense of the word, but rather as a radioactive isotope would decay. Themes expressed in these images record a constant, caustic, and ever evolving state - a process and exercise leaving its own detritus behind as visual evidence.
The role we play as participants - passively or not - is giving sentience, perception and ultimately life itself to this evidence; which I believe is the essence and purpose art and creativity performs as a way to explore and reflect this experience.
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Groups (50)
- timothy leary / transhumanism 1815 photos, 357 members
- SWEET STATION 3358 photos, 1260 members
- Willy DeVille Memorial 163 photos, 216 members
- FlickrCentral 2515531 photos, 110078 members
- Surrealismo Conceptual 542 photos, 626 members
- Emergence - Free post 5 photos, 3 members
- incomunidade 214 photos, 388 members
- Between Psychedelic and Pop Art 2205 photos, 238 members
- DETAILED ARTWORK 6626 photos, 1284 members
- Arts- Artes 7548 photos, 689 members
- INVASIVA MAGAZINE 1869 photos, 693 members
- Your Favorite T-Shirt 1434 photos, 1166 members
- Black and White Artwork (Non Photography) 8049 photos, 843 members
- Your Art - Not Photography 207436 photos, 17442 members
- nice&easy 2374 photos, 888 members
- Weird Shit 7472 photos, 828 members
- Ilustração 5245 photos, 424 members
- weird little drawings 1137 photos, 129 members
- Illustration and Graphic Addicts 14780 photos, 1224 members
- Fantômas 865 photos, 165 members
- Experimental Graphic Design 27822 photos, 4453 members
- Not Dark Yet... 772 photos, 261 members
- *The Talking Animal* 351 photos, 91 members
- ARTE CONTEMPORANEA CONTEMPORARY ART 5234 photos, 387 members
- Art of Design 4295 photos, 897 members
- Anti-Imperialist Artists 544 photos, 134 members
- INSECT Collection 1291 photos, 500 members
- dada 10208 photos, 622 members
- Composites 8033 photos, 915 members
- Artist Against Inspirational Drought 2075 photos, 146 members
- PAPERWORKS 139 photos, 308 members
- Horse Art 3354 photos, 896 members
- unlimited madness 1253 photos, 69 members
- WorldWide Artists 5679 photos, 909 members
- House of Illustration 4883 photos, 1482 members
- Twisted Visions 195 photos, 20 members
- Dark Thoughts 7729 photos, 782 members
- Anything Absurd 6404 photos, 460 members
- baz'art 5173 photos, 789 members
- _ Drawings _ 6987 photos, 646 members
- ball point pen 1767 photos, 319 members
- black & white illustration 3166 photos, 493 members
- A Work In Progress 2343 photos, 356 members
- --SOLO ILUSTRACIONES-- 35055 photos, 3749 members
- Doodle Masters 578 photos, 61 members
- Losing My MIND ! 3641 photos, 199 members
- Zeichnungen/Drawing 1291 photos, 71 members
- Trilobites 2049 photos, 348 members
- I Came fron Mars!!! Eu Venho de Marte!!!! 267 photos, 24 members
- Arte & Illustrazione 263 photos, 31 members
Testimonials (7)
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przondzion says:
"Conor, your skill and technique is breathtakingly fabulous. Excellent!!"
25th August, 2008
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falling_apart says:
"Conor's drawing is weird (sometimes I feel I saw them in my dream), intriguing and very sexy. He's not afraid of showing us his unlimited imagination !
You rock, Conor :]"18th August, 2008
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MaA Exhibition XY says:
"Conor's otherworldly images do indeed come to us from over the rainbow With first sight one never wants to go back to Kansas--never, never, never!"
31st March, 2007
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HaggisVitae says:
"There is this delicately creepy and surreal world you can tiptoe into, quietly, because you don’t want these singular, highly-specialized, gossamer creatures to be frightened and run off never to be seen again. These are endangered species that only one man has had the privilege to know intimately.
Conor Ryan graciously allows us all to go on a mutant safari with him and his beings with nipple whips and impossible genitalia, and fine lines, and gorgeous draftsmanship, and breathtaking understatedness (drawing with blue ball-point pen on notebook paper), and the kind of imagination and talent that can only make me say, “ConorRyan, would you someday please come to dinner at my house and sit and talk about politics and right and wrong and fantasy, and your idea of a perfect world and lines and what it means to have this kind of keen artistic vision? PLEASE?” My only wish is that he’d grace us all with more, more, more. I’m a CR addict, I admit this here and now with pride.
PS He is also one of the coolest flicksters and THE most talented, free-form image-tagger I know. **hugsss to you, CR!**"3rd November, 2006
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Devin Neil says:
"original, interesting and good. you don't see work this great very often..."
20th October, 2006
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Gail Orenstein says:
""""Wow-what a wonderful surprise! Conors work is like a travel adventure. The art is very unique-one minute you are in a the very dark contrast that shadows his portraits and the next minute your in a bright beautiful space I think the site is more like a journey. It is one I have enjoyed taking and will continue to come back for the ride. A super image trip!""""
15th September, 2006
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Meta-morphosis says:
"An incredible, imaginative artist , untamed by normal boundaries and constraints...truly insightful."
9th August, 2006
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