Ryan Bock
American, b. 1989
Ryan Bock specializes in painting, drawing, puppetry, animation and experimental film methods. Bock’s practice is rooted in a need for narrative structure. Residing somewhere between mythology and nightmare, Bock depicts mise-en-scène riddled with symbology and allusions both cinematic and painterly. Maintaining a fascination for shape, shade, shadow, structure and optical illusion, Bock deconstructs his subject matter into often barely-recognizable delineations and structurally unsound repetitive patterns. In an attempt to confront the contemporary individual’s relationship to mortality, fear and superstition, Bock depicts correlations between the human figure and its innovations: technology, architecture and religion—both historically and fictitiously. By consistently contrasting historical subjects with those of the present, and using the recurring patterns found to generate predictions about our future—a process he refers to as ‘dusty futurism’—Bock propels his audience to reconsider the routine human experience and discloses the illusions implemented to keep them from questioning. Commissions and/or collaborations welcome.(Biography provided by Bockhaus LLC)
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Somnambulist's Shadow
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
As with much of my work, Somnambulist bridges the landscape of dreams and reality. The bed frames that composed the exhibition called Somnambulist—along with other objects of quiet a...
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
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Found Objects, Acrylic
Ornement et Crime (Ornament and Crime)
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Independent artists have an obligation to constantly reclaim their language and original intent of creation. To face the machine with moral strength, to uphold freedom and truth agai...
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
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Acrylic
The Haus that Abdul Alhazred Built in the Nameless City (dyptic)
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This dyptic was painted for a NecronomiCon Conference. Abdul Alhazred is a character in HP Lovecraft's fiction.
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
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Acrylic
The Blind Man
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Neo-cubist piece by Ryan Bock. Ryan lives and works in Brooklyn.
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
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Acrylic
Big Wheel in the Sky
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
What tethers me to my practice is the absurd, physical act of painting. I painstakingly carve shapes’ edges by hand, when a much more efficient, digital, solution could achieve the s...
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
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Acrylic
Form Follows Function
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inspired by Dadaist theory and the movement’s strong opposition to war following WWI. To compose this body of work, I’ve taken into consideration the movement’s playful strategies an...
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
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Acrylic
Tinder Profile series: Pattern
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This cubistic portrait is one of a series of portraits I started while in Berlin earlier this year. I do not typically paint portraits, although many recurring motifs of my work are ...
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Tinder Profile Series: Dry Martini
By Ryan Bock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dry Marti is one of a series of works on paper. Each are unique portraits in my cubist style.
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2010s Cubist Ryan Bock
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
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