Ryan Everson stirs up artificial emotions

Exposing sentimentality and stirring up deeply artificial emotions for carefully constructed illusions, Portland-based multimedia artist Ryan Everson invites the viewer to consider a different perspective to current reality – more specific, to the contemporary American culture awash in hyper connectivity.

Thus, he offers a contrasting vision of an idealized natural world, where the feeling of missing out, of fear or fame, of isolation and absence gain new values. The relationship between “fabricated melodrama and longing for genuine experience” is revealed thorough sculpture, installation, photography, while the viewer is left to his own conclusions about something that never existed in the first place.