EXHIBITIONS
PAINTING ARCHIVE
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
PAPER SCULPTURE
ARIST STATEMENT

RANDOM GENERATION
painting by chance: This is an ongoing painting series I started in my undergraduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I continue to touch base with the idea every few years. Sometimes it takes awhile to see the project through new eyes and I'll revisit in a different way.

artist's demonstration

 

Random Painting by Ryan Scheidt
Select Media Festival 7: INFOPORN

This year please enjoy painting at the group exhibition, INFOPORN. Information is the medium and how the artist transmits it is their method.

PROTOFORM
a techinical challenge: In order to "press" this mammoth 8'x12' painting I needed the help of no less than 5 assistants each time. The painting itself weighed more than 100 lbs, and needed to be flipped over each time to press the painting. Once the painting is set down in the paint we'd walk across the back to ensure that the surface has equal contact with the paint (There are airpockets that we'd have to "press-out" in order to get an even press.) it was hard to tell what we were getting until we flipped it back over. It was always surprising and made for a really interesting project. I would be interested in attempting it again sometime in the future.

artist during production

CULTIVATION
the process: This painting series explores procedural painting in an unconventional way. Based on physical ground to viscous paint contact. This is done by repetitively "flash painting" the surface. I start by pressing the painting into a pallette evenly coated with a paint color. When the paint dries it creates a newly textured surface. Each time I press the canvas to the pallette it layers onto that surface, creating smaller, higher areas of contact with the subsequent layers.

slideshow demonstration

Installation view of Ryan Scheidt's Cultivation Project at the Northwestern University's Masters Thesis Exhibition 2005. The Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, IL.