Mark Ryden; psychedelic butcher
Mark Ryden knows meat, and blood, and guts. Ryden is a world renowned California artist (married to painter Marion Peck) who uses oil paint, ink sketches, and physical sculpture to construct a luminescent wonderland streight out of an acid daydream. Abe Lincoln sells meat from an ice cream stand. Ticket booth tellers stand 20 times larger than mythical cartoon style symbolistic morphisms with skull heads. A sense of peaceful urgency fills his canvas, destruction and fragility are overwhelmingly present. Ryden takes his time with detail and shows an appreciation for articulating his sentiment through an extensive drafting process. The result is ace art brut gore gorgousness.
