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RYAN W. RUEHLEN

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About Me

I am an artist: A painter, a musician, a writer, and most importantly, I consider myself a thinker. One day I dream of living in a house that looks like it came out of a book by Dr. Seuss. I first started drawing when I was four years old. I love trees and being among them. I am always striving for harmony with my environment. Currently my artwork is a study of conscious experience, the energy that all things possess, manifest and share with one another as well as the questions, confusion, conditions and clarity that arise out of my personal experience, however with deep looking at the circumstances of the reality of our era.
I believe all things are cosmically connected and unfold with time. We are living in a time where god's have died, become obscure or irrelevant, thus forcing us as a species to take a deep look at our existence and make a hard choice. Currently we have chosen to fill the void that once was occupied by heavenly psyche with commercialized, compartmentalized, fragments of information that are sold to us as a cure for our emptiness. Humans have already rebuilt their societies, and the functions of humanity into an imitation of reality as it once was or have ever hoped for. Human has began to meld with machine to form something new and terrifying. Our spirit has been trampled and repressed deep into the bottom of our consciousness and has been replaced with a materialistic world of pleasurable objects that only satisfy until the next moment when we have a newer and better object to replace the former with. Then we wonder why we are so depressed, anxious and going from day to day swallowing pills that fill our once spiritual psyche with an imitation psyche. I am definitely not suggesting that we return to an old way of viewing the world or moving back to the spiritual lives we once lead long ago. Quite the contrary. I am suggesting that we need a new movement in human consciousness and spirituality that brings back our original spirit but from a fresh perspective with an alternative universal meaning. Through my art I want to capture our current and alarming state as well as the potential we have to change our collective conscious experience.
I am available for commissions/exhibitions/sales. All work is for sale. I can be contacted at:
[email protected]
Any additional information about my work can be obtained if you send me a message or email.

My Interests

observation, painting, visionary art, surrealistic art,acid and psychedelic poster art, religious art or any other art that deeply moves me, nature and its brilliant geometric and organic complexities, listening to good music, creating music, having a meaningful conversation, writing and literature, neuro-science, cosmology, existentialism, the psychedelic experience, sunglasses, veganism, dreams, flying, finding really sour candy, metaphors, irrationality and paranormal experience, order and disorder and the juxtapositions of them, thriftstore shopping, the cosmos and space exploration, cooking, post-modernism, the bizarro movement, yoga and meditation, scientific discovery, mandalas, trees, spicy food, watching animals act like people and people act like animals, peace.
Artists I am inspired by: Alex Grey, Ernst Fuch, Jeff Jordan, Francisco Goya, Salvador Dali, A. Andrew Gonzalez, Demetrios Vakras, Kris Kuksi, Clinton Marstall, Francis Bacon, Lee Roberts, Nicolas Poussin, Martina Hoffman, Paul Laffoley, Robert Venosa, H.R. Giger, Renee Magritte, Ilene Meyer, the visionary writings of L. Caruana and many many more...

Music:

the beatles, radiohead, pink floyd, the doors, ravi shankar, the jimi hendrix experience, autolux, David Crosby, Steven Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young, chopin, the yardbirds, the shins, jefferson airplane, queens of the stone age, beck, the flaming lips, sons and daughters, tv on the radio, sufjan stevens, sleater-kinney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The velvet underground, simon and garfunkel, eastern-world music, folk music, indian music, drums grooves, good bluegrass, techno when I feel like moving around alot.

Movies:

too many to name.

Television:


Myspace Layouts
Myspace Codes
Myspace Generators
Myspace Backgrounds

Books:

The Giver, The Buddhist Vision, A Perfect Day for Bananafish by Salinger, Civil Disobedience, The Way of Zen by Allen Watts, Siddhartha, Mission of Art by Alex Grey, The Physics of Consciousness, Awakening of Intelligence by J. Krishnamurti, Phantoms of the Brain, Killing the Buddha, work by Friedrich Nietzsche, Irrational Man, The Simple Feeling of Being, A very old man with enormous wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, philosophical and scientific work in general, any magazine, story, or book that will expand my mind.

Heroes:

anyone who actually thinks...yes uses their own brain.

My Blog

The Evil of Capitalism and Religion

This was written by Surrealist Writer/Promoter/Artist Keith Wigdor and is based around the concept of Capitalism and Religion and its disgusting motives. Enjoy.The enemies of Surrealism need to be add...
Posted by RYAN W. RUEHLEN on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:45:00 PST

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{{RW RUEHLEN'S RESUME}}--2005 Fort Hays State University Annual Juried Student Exhibition: **Special Honors Scholarship Award** (Moss Thorns Gallery)--2006 Fort Hays State University Annual Juried Stu...
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