tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54599068736571062682025-12-18T15:03:22.105-05:00Artwork by fine artist Dennis Ryan. Contemporary fine art dealing at times with psychological disorders: paintings and drawings that delve into the darker side of humanity. Occasionally, I'll focus on concepts from obsessive compulsive disorder and depression to schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder and other psychological disorders. And now I have to fix my shower...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00580363467249672369noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459906873657106268.post-38787499426956539032011-02-12T13:44:00.004-05:002011-02-27T11:32:07.849-05:00

WHEN: March 25th to April 23rd, 2011 WHERE: Gallery On High, Pottstown, PA logo designed by uploneUpcoming artist show in Pottstown, PA, at The Gallery On High, called "A Journey Through Anxiety".As a fine artist in 2010, I had my artwork in art shows, on TV, on the front page of the newspaper and even on the radio! And these are all great, but I have a feeling that this upcoming combination

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A few months back I got an invitation to submit my art to an upcoming exhibition in NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota.I came across your website through a basic Google search for artists related to this topic, and I enjoy your work quite a bit. I will be co-curating this exhibition and I feel your "OCD Art" series of works would be a perfect match. The show opens on Friday, November 5, 2010 and will run

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I, well, mostly my art, got a brilliant writeup in The Lancaster [PA] Sunday News this past Father's Day.The article was penned by Stephen Kopfinger; who did a great article on OCD Camp (with Dr. Oz and Philadelphia anxiety expert Dr. Jonathan Grayson). OCD Camp was a special, similar to that of The OCD Project, that ran on Oprah in 2008. My favorite excerpt from the article was probably this:"

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Your definitive source for all things OCD Project: theocdproject.com

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The images below are of the actual giclée prints that were picked to be on The OCD Project.Three of the five prints have already been acquired by some of The OCD Project's staff. The remaining two — exclusively signed and tagged with the show name — are available. If you are interested in seeing these prints or the original paintings then use this contact form to facilitate your request. This is

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More and more I get this question... Why the suit and mask Dennis? The answer is in the audio of this recent radio interview I did with Chris Wakefield on Into The Night. If you don't have 45 minutes to listen to the entire broadcast, then the specific answer is @ 19:54.

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The OCD Project SupertrailerDr. David Tolin will attempt to treat six patients with OCD in 21 days. Check out the premiere on Vh1 Thursday, May 27th at 10 et/pt!I will watch and Tivo! Dr. Tolin is Brilliant -- nice work VH1.I especially love the Fear Factor element… but I guess this is actually how Cognitive (active) Behavior Therapy actually works. Obsessive compulsive disorder is typically

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Dennis Ryan interviewed by a GCSE student from London, England, United Kingdom, UKDennis, I am a student studying GCSE art. For my exam I have to produce a sketchbook and final piece on a chosen subject. I have chosen to study fears, phobias and superstitions. One of the criteria is to have written essays on at least three artists of choice. I was hoping to be able to get a short

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Google analytic's chart over last year. Most recently the United Kingdom, specifically London, has been sending an enormous amount of traffic to my artistic endeavors.

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Fantastic audio and lyrics... classic song about mental disturbance."Mental wounds still screamingDriving me insaneI'm going off the rails on a crazy train"Ozzy Osbourne : Crazy Train LyricsAll aboardCrazy, but that's how it goesMillions of people living as foesMaybe it's not too lateTo learn how to loveAnd forget how to hateMental wounds not healinglife's a bitter shameI'm going off the rails on

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Conceptual art video presentationVideo adds another dimension to presenting fine art. It favors the tangibility of the artwork in light of relativity. A huge problem with displaying art on the web is the fact that all paintings, no matter what the actual size of the piece, looks like the size of a thumbnail image. With a person, such as the artist, interacting with the piece one immediately gets

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comments: Hi Dennis I am an A-Level art student in Birmingham, and for my A2 year, I am doing a project on OCD and I came across your work. The pieces you have created really inspired me and I was just wondering if I could ask you some questions? How long have you been interested in art? What inspired you to do your work on OCD? What artists inspired you with your work? Thank you for your time,

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Conceptual artistFrom an earlier post on this conceptual painting the final 20% is now complete. It will be one of the 5 in an upcoming showing from California. I recently added ink touches to the art (such as yoga text that talks about symptomatic style, intensive, relaxation breathing). Yes, the road to a stress free day can start with yoga and/or Pilate exercises.Conceptual art — Breathe

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One of the most fantastic parts of being an artist today is that we show our work on a global stage. Technology can be a powerful tool. I get emails from all over the world, and some of them make me smile and continue to supplementally fill my artistic fuel tank as I truck on forward.This email is one of them: "Hi, I am a student in the UK, studying Fine Art. I wanted to thank you for providing

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Part 3 in my anxiety art series of paintings titled Irrational Exuberance 1999Click here to see more picks of 1999 -- close ups on Facebook.All three paintings shown together — 8ft x 4ft:

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As a fine artist that paints mostly about concepts of psychological disorders I don't usually run out and make prints of my paintings. I'm far from a commercial artist.But I had an exciting opportunity to show my work — in a big way — in California. So the most timely and efficient way to get my paintings out to Laguna Beach was to scan the original art here in Pennsylvania, and then FTP digital

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This painting stands at 48 inches high by 32 inches wide. Its title is Exuberance. This is the 2nd painting in a 3 part series. The third painting should be wrapped up by mid-December. I will post pictures of all three together at that point.Close up 1 - click on the image to see a bigger version.Close up 2 - click on the image to see a bigger version.Click for more information on this conceptual

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I have been getting more and more requests to do consults to businesses on setting up social media plans.I'm not advertising, but it seems many businesses are in dire need of this type of knowledge currently and word of mouth spreads quickly. 2010, if you ask me, will be the year of the Facebook business Fan Page! And Twitter, too, looks to have a promising year yet again.Here is my formula for

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The second song in my quest to blog about all the songs about psychological disorders — and there are MANY! This one by the Kinks called Destroyer is a classic.The Kinks - Destroyer LyricsSongwriter: Davies, RayMet a girl called Lola and I took her back to my placefeelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywherestop! hold on. stay in controlGirl, I want, you here with mebut I'm really

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This painting stands at 48 inches high by 32 inches wide. Its title is Irrational.This painting is actually part one of a three part series. The three pieces are being created with the potential to be hung together or individually. When shown together the painting will be almost 9 feet wide!Follow this link for more information on this painting and the anxiety art series.

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I can't exactly put my finger on why, but these new station identification advertisements from Nickelodeon definitely amuse me. I find the organic shapes created by the flying slime, the timing, and the erratic adjustments in motion very successful! And it is painless to watch them when they are inevitably shown again and again. So I have to ask why? Most ads annoy me enough to make me change the

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There are costs associated with just about everything. That is no different when it comes to making a Giclée print of your fine art?Click here if you don't fully understand what a Giclée print is?Where the costs come in is mostly in the upfront process of art reproduction.The upfront process = cost to digitally capture the artwork via scanners or by professional photography. Now this scan is not

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Even for a fine artist, social media and social networking are important. With that said, I find that traditional fine artists -- the ones that still know how to hold a paint brush -- are the slowest to climb aboard a newer technology like twitter.comBut why? You CAN teach an old dog new tricks! And I recommend you do, because now is the BEST time to be a fine artist. Now is the most favorable

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This painting weighs in at my current typical size of 3 foot wide by 4 foot high. The title is Breathe.This painting is approximately 80% finished, or so, depending on what day you ask me...A new and, I find, interesting addition to this piece is the soap bottle nipples that I have attached to the bottom left corner. Occasionally I will enter the 3rd dimension and this is no exception. Many times

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I'm currently in talks with The OCD Project, in LA, to see if my fine art is a good fit for the backdrops and scenes of their upcoming show on VH1. The reality show is being produced by 3Ball Productions, Redondo Beach, CA. It makes perfect sense to me for my art to be on the show. I mean for the past 10-15 years I have been sketching, drawing, printing and painting about OCD. Google OCD art,

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