Ryan Hogan (along with Jaime Raybin) was one of our featured Dance Your Art Out artists at the first party we threw. To use a word such as “fascinating” to describe Ryan’s unique style of sculpture-based installation art is too banal, and does not justly articulate how galvanizing his work actually is. Each piece is singularly provocative, piquing, and complex. As observers, we expect artists to make strong statements-to challenge us in affecting ways. Clearly, Ryan Hogan is on course to become a leader in this realm. Below are eight questions we asked Ryan in an attempt to get a closer look at his talent. Hope you enjoy.
How did you get started in the world of art?
By making Ewok [the character from Star Wars: Episode VI-Return Of The Jedi] costumes at the age of five. In all seriousness, I’m still in very formative stages, so I guess I’m still getting started. I took classes in high school and produced poorly informed, juvenile art. For whatever reason, I studied art in college. I feel like I have to show something for that time spent on a degree. So, here I am today.
When did you first become interested in creating visual pieces, and begin dabbling in artistic pursuits?
I think I alluded to this in the previous question. It’s hard for me to remember a time when I wasn’t making something or working on a project. My parents instilled this in me. When we don’t have something, we make it. My mother is a talented seamstress and my father is an artisan in his own right. Growing up, I would play with legos and erector sets. As I got older, I would continue to construct things, weather it happened to be a small scale model or a disfunctional hover craft. I think this all somehow translates into what I do now. It’s a lot of playing around and not knowing what to expect.
Who are your biggest influences? What artists have inspired and shaped you the most?
There are artists I like and artists I try to mimic. Joseph Beuys is an artist I like. Eva Hesse is an artist I try to mimic. [continue reading…]
The Smashing Pumpkins are one of my three most favorite bands ever. You may have heard some people in the music business describe seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show as the moment they knew they had to be in the music business. For me it was The Smashing Pumpkins. [continue reading…]
Many of you are probably already aware that on Monday, Amazon offered a deal on Born This Way, the new album by Lady Gaga. For one day only-Monday, June 23rd, Amazon featured Born This Way in it’s entirety for 99¢. I took them up on the offer, and purchased my first ever Lady Gaga album.
I half-jokingly made this comment on Twitter and Facebook post-purchase: “The entire new Lady Gaga record is on Amazon today for only 99¢. And for that reason only, I’m gonna own my first ever Lady Gaga record.”
A few of my friends/followers jabbed at me with some playful sarcasm for buying the record. I understand that a lot of people like to turn their noses up at Lady Gaga. And in all honesty, I’m not really a Lady Gaga fan. Yeah, it may make a few people raise an eyebrow when a rocker/shoegazer such as myself buys a pop album. But I’m also a professional record producer/artist developer/marketer/etc. An artist that is making this much of an impact and pulling in this much cash is worth taking an hour or so to gain some familiarity with. Actually, it should be required by someone like me, even if this is not the field of music I specialize in. [continue reading…]
Sonic Youth has been coming up on conversation amongst my friends a lot lately. One of my favorite bands. Went to a great show last nite, and met some new friends (incidentally, The Wine Loft in Nashville is a really cool hang), and again Sonic Youth came up in conversation. We spent about an hour or so discussing the Daydream Nation record, which got me all excited to go home and bust out the small collection of Sonic Youth records I own (I need to buy more of their records), and jam.
Here’s a video of Sonic Youth performing “The Sprawl” live from their 1988 hit record Daydream Nation:
What controls you? Do you wake up each morning with a burning desire to get things done, with a thirst for progress, with goals? Do you immediately act on them? Does your passion guide you? Do you hold the keys to your success, and your destiny? Or are you a victim?
Ryan Hogan (along with Jaime Raybin) was one of our featured Dance Your Art Out artists at the first party we threw. To use a word such as “fascinating” to describe Ryan’s unique style of sculpture-based installation art is too banal, and does not justly articulate how galvanizing his work actually is. Each piece is singularly provocative, piquing, and complex. As observers, we expect artists to make strong statements-to challenge us in affecting ways. Clearly, Ryan Hogan is on course to become a leader in this realm. Below are eight questions we asked Ryan in an attempt to get a closer look at his talent. Hope you enjoy.
Yeah, I bought the new Lady Gaga album
by stinson on May 25, 2011
I half-jokingly made this comment on Twitter and Facebook post-purchase: “The entire new Lady Gaga record is on Amazon today for only 99¢. And for that reason only, I’m gonna own my first ever Lady Gaga record.”
A few of my friends/followers jabbed at me with some playful sarcasm for buying the record. I understand that a lot of people like to turn their noses up at Lady Gaga. And in all honesty, I’m not really a Lady Gaga fan. Yeah, it may make a few people raise an eyebrow when a rocker/shoegazer such as myself buys a pop album. But I’m also a professional record producer/artist developer/marketer/etc. An artist that is making this much of an impact and pulling in this much cash is worth taking an hour or so to gain some familiarity with. Actually, it should be required by someone like me, even if this is not the field of music I specialize in. [continue reading…]
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