Ryan "Ricky" Blosser
College of Fine Arts, Studio Art and Art Entrepreneurship (BFA)
Greetings from Wonderland
I'm Ricky Blosser, a mixed-media artist studying Studio Art and Art Entrepreneurship here at Florida State University. I work primarily in Procreate, collage art, and acrylic painting, but I enjoy experimenting with many different mediums and techniques of creating art. I have been especially drawn to the beauty of nature and the simple things in life like delicious-looking foods and the colors of a sunset bleeding through trees. My work is inspired by the joy and euphoria that's felt spending time with the people you love, nostalgia and how vivid memories can be in our minds, and all the parts that make up our lives-- even the small, minute details. I enjoy adding random, sometimes nonsensical details to every nook and cranny within art-- sort of like easter eggs.
My art is created through a plethora of mediums, both traditional and digital. My traditional work tends to consist of either graphite, ink, watercolor, pastels, ceramic, wire, acrylics, oil paint or even collage-work. Most of my concepts are documented in sketchbooks that I fill as a creative outlet to sketch out my ideas and express the emotions I'm feeling in the moment. Depending on whether I choose to keep the concept as a 2-D work, I may then transform the work into a ceramic art piece or wire sculpture. I also work digitally with photography, graphic design, and digital illustration that stem from my traditional concepts I've transferred from my sketchbook or captured snapshots of my everyday life. Whatever best fits the concept I'm conceiving is what I work with.
Artwork Description:
The concept behind this piece is "Greetings from Wonderland" and what that would look like in my head. I collected and collaged together various images and iconography from different pieces of media I enjoy-- The foot tree originates from Alex Hirsch's animated show, Gravity Falls; the various smiling flowers are from the Disney animated movie, Alice in Wonderland; and the bear and birds are from different artworks I found on Pinterest. Everything found in this piece is imagery that was very important to my upbringing with each image stitched together in a nonsensical way to hammer home the concept of Wonderland, where nothing truly makes sense.