Description

‘Dieter’ By Jonas Ranson

CMYK Acrylic Screen Print on 350gsm Archival Paper

70cmX50cm

Current portrait works take inspiration from the visual imagery of the world of fashion, music, and club culture. Each portrait is an exploration of performance, glamour, personality, novelty, surface, colour, mass production, nightclubs, Eurotrash, pop, the future.

The soft sprayed look of the art produces a highly aestheticized, nostalgic art language and uses this method of pastiche in a manner that subverts dominant discourses by creatively merging different artistic styles and popular cultural elements.

Images merge in a tense photo-realism, offering futuristic visions articulated in a retro style, creating a back-and-forth dialogue between the past and the future. The works seek to merge a number of painterly appearances and techniques within each.

The screen print process used to print the images, though very technical in its application, replicates more immediate brush and spray marks and gestures. There is a dichotomy created between the technical process of the image making, and the painterly result in the final print. Original hand drawn and painted sketches are scanned then worked up digitally. These hybrid images are then printed using the CMYK four colour process. Each colour is applied in a set pattern of tiny dots that appear to create a solid colour. I have worked over many years to perfect and refine this technique.