Ryan Cronk, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his BFA from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston and his MFA in studio art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. He currently lives and works in Austin.
In a 2014 exhibition, Migration wisdom, chalk lines, tracings, and undertow, at Austin’s Co-Lab Projects, Cronk observed that his, “works are culled from personal narratives that reflect on universal narratives of disaster and transformation. Th[e] work is curious and foolhardy. It’s a reaction, a question, an archive, and a collection of reinterpretations that consider an uncertain present and future. Orderly and absurd, these works reflect on our existence in this floating world.”
Ryan Cronk; Alaya/Consequences and Foraging, 2012; Intaglio, etching, chine colle; Image: 226 mm x 152 mm
Ryan Cronk; Pushing and Pulling after the Temptation of St. Anthony by Martin Schongauer, 2013; Screen print, charcoal, gouache, graphite, woodcut, collage; Image: 1065 mm x 1273 mm
Ryan Cronk; Picando #2, 2009; Trace monotype, monotype, lithograph, chine colle, collage; Image: 758 mm x 556 mm
Ryan Cronk; Untitled: 2009, 2009; Trace monotype, lithograph, chine colle; Image: 759 mm x 557 mm
Ryan Cronk; Fruit Fly Conspiracy, 2009; Lithograph; Image: 445 mm x 297 mm
Ryan Cronk; Desolation Treaty Expansion, 2009; Gesso, oil bar, gouache, monotype, collage, charcoal; Image: 1417 mm x 1177 mm
Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection ● AP/RC ● Art Division of the Museum of Texas Tech University 