Ryan Babcock was born in 1986 in Seattle, Washington. At age 16, Ryan moved to Spokane Valley, WA to live with his father. After receiving an A.A. and A.F.A. degree from the Community Colleges of Spokane, Ryan moved to Bellingham, WA where he received his BA in fine arts from Western Washington University. As a child he admired fantasy and erotic art like the works of Boris Vallejo and Luis Royo. Later on, however, Ryan developed greater enthusiasm for figurative and expressive forms that utilize satire, irony, and emotion through modern mixed media practices. Ryan’s work is energetic, fresh, and generally dark in nature.
Ryan’s art combines aspects of modern art with his own surrealistic style, utilizing the perspectives of foreshortening and generally taking intuitive risks through mixed media. With a dark sense of humor and odd use of space, Ryan Babcock relates the social construct of an industrial-commercialized world characterized by its human involvement with an intuition for distorted environments and textured applications. Illustrating the evolved separateness in our adaptation to contemporary times, his artistic creations manifest the spiritual implications of the post industrial order. Ryan’s paintings and drawings touch on the metaphysical drought involved in modern corporate America.
Ryan Babcock joined Fine Art America on February 22nd, 2011.
