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SE: Wow, your work is incredible, how does it feel to have your first solo show?
Ryan: Mind blowing! I've always wanted to do something like this; it's just been a matter of producing enough work to do it.
SE: How long does it take you to finish a piece?
Ryan: Depends on the intensity, usually a night, for the bigger more involved pieces a few days to a week. Having something to work for like the art show makes you work faster in order to prepare.
SE: What is your best environment to work in?
Ryan: Usually in my home studio, but it depends on the piece live art is neat because you use your surroundings to inspire you, but at home I sometimes listen to music or a movie, sometime it's nice to work in silence because your head can be playing your own soundtrack.
SE: Can you tell me something about your paintings? What inspires you to paint a particular subject matter such as the faces?
Ryan: I'm usually a very detail oriented guy, a perfectionist really and I try to get as much in there as I can. The series with the faces is a simple subject matter where I tried to get away from that and just follow one line. I chose faces because I've always been interested in crowds, when I was little I was fascinated with the faces rushing at you at the mall or a theme park. I was at an art show once and just looking around me at all the people and their quick expressions gave me the inspiration for the faces.
SE: What artists have influenced you most and how?
Ryan: My friends that are artists, just being around them and their art inspires me, but some well known artists would have to be, Phil Hail, Glen Barn, Joe Socon, I really look up to them for the way they can manipulate color and see the world in a different otherwise boring way.
Ryan: Just do it! Everyday let it take over and create emotions, a friend once said to me "no matter how shitty life is, your art will always wrap its arms around you" so let it, and most of all just have fun and do what you want to do!
SE: What would you like to accomplish in the art world in the next few years?
Ryan: A career, freelance or otherwise, I need to be part of a creative environment where people don't take life to seriously because I can and I get sucked up into that seriousness.
SE: Ryan Thank you so much and keep up the remarkable work!
Ryan: Thank you Sneakeasies!!!!!!!!!! SE
Interview: Lindsay Roman
Pictures: Chad Algorri
Please check out Ryan Milner @:
http://www.myspace.com/ryanmilnerartist
