“I think it’s important as an artist not to think about where your place is in all that. I think it just freezes you up — I try not to think about it at all. If you start to evaluate: Am I doing something fashionable, am I doing something that fits in with the times, am I doing something new that hasn’t been done before — it will just freeze up the creative process. I’m so lucky that people respond to my art, but if I think about that it’s hard to, ah, make any art.” — Mark Ryden (LA Weekly, March 2007).
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The Apology (with original frame), by Mark Ryden. (oil on canvas, 2006). Photo by bohemea on Flickr.
Laurie Hassold and Mark Ryden - Reading the Bones. Art Shack 2010. (Photo: Steve Yennie).
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Elephant Demon, by Mark Ryden. (Oil and Mixed Media on board, 1991).
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Incarnation (detail), by Mark Ryden (Oil on panel, 2009).
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Kids with Meat postcard, by Mark Ryden. (Photo by reactor88 on Flickr).
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“I usually see something that will spark an idea, and usually the idea is pretty complete, but kinda blurry, the details are not real clear. So, I try to discover what the details are supposed to be. It feels to me that there is a “right” answer, like the painting already exists and I’m just there to figure it out. There does seem to be this “right or wrong” definitive answer to a lot of the details.”
— Mark Ryden (Trace Magazine, may 2007).
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Good Children, by Mark Ryden.
Rigor Mortis’ Freaks EP (1989) album cover. Artwork by Mark Ryden.
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Miniature painting by Mark Ryden dispalyed at the XXSmall exposition at the The Hague Municipal Museum.
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Turkey Baby, by Mark Ryden. (Graphite on vintage paper). By JeanineAnderson on Flickr.
“I think an important part of experiencing art is for a person to figure out what is going on for themselves. Everyone has different ideas and interpretations, and that is the way it should be.” — Mark Ryden (Art Prostitute magazine, Issue No, 08, 2006).
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Dodecaedri Parva (detail), by Mark Ryden (2011).
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