Ryan Romer
Bethel & Anchorage, Alaska |
Yup’ik & Athabascan
Artist
While he now lives in Anchorage, Ryan’s work remains deeply rooted in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Y-K Delta) where his ancestors made their home. His paintings and printmaking are inspired from experiences, stories and folklore from the Y-K Delta, capturing nomadic lifestyles as they exist in contemporary Alaska and weaving in indigenous values and knowledge along the way. Every image is intended to present a possible parallel universe — a storyline in motion that the viewer may accept as an alternative to the Western, capitalist structures we live in today. He hopes his work can serve as a catalyst to the viewer to imagine another way of life.
Ryan received his B.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Alaska, Anchorage in 2008. His endeavor to transform oral storyline into visual arts has been a nomadic process that combines traditional Western fine arts methods with cultural impressions from rural villages in Alaska.
