We loved hearing more from @rydeas at the opening of “Luck Out”. ⭐️ Look out for an announcement about an upcoming workshop led by Ryan Evans at JOG later this week!
“Is he hot or is he just from New Jersey?”
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Photos from my “Making Faces” collage workshop with @rayisaplace - Huge thank you to @on_uh_ees for all the support! Hire @jojogabbfilm for your next event!
Ryan Evans (@rydeas ) doesn't cut or paste anything. He draws with colored pencils. But he's thinking like a collagist.
"Everything is assembled rather than composed in a traditional sense," he explains. He crams together militarized toys, sunflowers, Monopoly houses, and pink assault rifles on McDonald's receipts, lottery tickets, and parking tickets. Nothing dominates—the elements reflect and distort each other.
"Collage is a huge part of how I understand making things. It's about collecting, arranging, compressing, and letting disparate elements coexist without fully resolving."
His method mirrors how we actually experience reality now—layered, fragmented, constantly interrupted. We consume images, alerts, brands, memes with no off switch. Everything piles up without resolving into clean narrative.
His drawings feel like collages because they reflect collaged consciousness. Vibrant and joyful, but processing overstimulation, consumerism, algorithmic dread. "I'm constantly consuming, even when I'm trying not to. The drawings become a way of taking in all that noise and boiling it down into something more concentrated. A silent scream."
Humor as survival. Beauty located where it isn't supposed to exist.
Read the full interview with Ryan Evans)—link in bio.
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