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Ryan ‘Craptical’ Riss
Jesus Dude Falling From The Cross With Everyone Giving What They Can To Help
Ink on drawing paper. Pencil Signed, Titled, Dated on reverse
22.8 cm x 30.8 cm
2007
In the hands of Ryan "Craptical" Riss, ink becomes the medium for mayhem. Underground comics, kid's cartoons, oozing horror characters, bubble gum icons, typographic slogans, slang, rap lyrics, mystic geometry, and patterns patterns patterns all float around together in a warped black and white illustrative universe.
Described by the artist as "textured cartoon comic psychedelic repetition" or "50's advertising cartoons on acid", Riss eliminated the use of color from his work, relying instead on the incessant density of lines and random imagery to create these two toned psychotropic kaleidoscopes. If you can't quite wrap your brain around the meaning behind the work, don't freak out. Much like a good — or bad — trip, the work often defies narrative interpretation — even to the artist.
Riss allows the bits of his personal pop culture paraphernalia assemble naturally and unplanned in his mind and on the page, building up to a just bearable tension between simple graphics and an over-stimulation of imagery. -Illiterate Magazine-
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