Joshua Ryan: The Creative Process of a Multimedia Artist (Friday Talk Series)

Join us for an artist talk with Joshua James Ryan— our featured gallery artist for the month of October. This talk will shed light on the fascinating process behind Ryan's work, as well as how he has developed his distinctive psychedelic vintage style. Joshua Ryan works with oil paints, collage, and interactive augmented reality animation to create his retro-futuristic visual experiences. Ryan is also a musician and aspiring filmmaker, and all aspects of his creative expression are connected by a shared thematic and aesthetic thread. Artists and art enjoyers alike have a lot to learn from his groundbreaking work.

Joshua James Ryan is a multidisciplinary artist who believes that all forms of creative expression are interconnected. Starting with photorealistic oil paintings and pencil drawings, he has expanded into abstract work, mixed media, collage, and encaustics, discovering that branching out artistically has made his overall vision more cohesive. The creation of his debut album Atomic Awakening became a transformative moment where he realized his visual art and music are extensions of each other, existing within a unified creative world. Ryan’s distinctive style blends vintage imagery and sounds from the 1920s and ’30s with vibrant psychedelic elements, creating a surreal, retro-futuristic aesthetic that welcomes diverse influences. His current work incorporates interactive augmented-reality experiences alongside traditional visual art, music, film, and live performance, all part of an evolving project that reflects his belief that artistic exploration and personal growth go hand in hand. For Ryan, the ultimate goal is creating art where life and creativity become inseparable.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​