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About Ryan Kerrigan Ryan is a New Hampshire native who currently resides in Berkeley,
CA. His poster art has become a mainstay in the world of Rock poster
art and beyond. He has worked with many of today's promoters and
up and coming bands as well as a host of concert venues, festivals
and alternative businesses. His use of color and his immediately
recognizable style are as free and loose as the music it has been
created for. "My first love in art was the old psychedelic
rock posters, and to actually be doing that now is a dream come
true. I listen to the band as I'm creating the images, and just
let the feeling of the music come through in the colors and design."
Upcoming plans involve many new projects, both musical and otherwise,
as well as continuing to exclusively use hemp paper for all prints. In Ryan's Own Words... Growing up in New Hampshire, my first experiences with music art were at flea markets I'd attend on weekends. I would pore over stacks of albums checking out the cover art and occasionally run across an old Fillmore or Family Dog poster. People like Rick Griffin, Randy Tuten, and Stanley Mouse became my heroes. In college at Penn State in the early 1990's, I studied the worlds of Dali, Mucha, and Maxfield Parrish. Combining my love for music and visual art, I began to create poster art for local bands such as PLUV, The Purple Helmets, Grinch, and others. The very first one was for a blues band called "Bob Hideycat and the Groovy Boots" in 1990. After graduating with a degree in printmaking in 1994, I wandered around the country for a few years, spending time drawing in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Washington, New Hampshire, Delaware, California, Colorado, and everywhere in between. In the Fall of 1998, I landed in beautiful Ithaca, New York and soon created a series of posters for jamband shows at the historic venue, The Haunt (35 posters over 12 months), as well as other venues around town. In the Spring of 2000, I decided that I had seen my last winter, at least for a while, and a few Phish tours and many miles later, I was living in Berkeley, California. Since finding home on the left coast in October of 2000, I've worked with the kind folks at JamBase.com developing a series of posters for shows they promoted, with High Sierra Music Festival on many of their events, as well as with local and national acts such as Tea Leaf Green, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Umphrey's McGee, The Slip, Animal Liberation Orchestra and others. Over the last few years I've started to create more artwork unrelated to concert posters. The Mandala Series, The Garden Series, and the Butterfly Series are three ongoing projects I've really enjoyed. There are many more ideas on the horizon. Feel free to contact
me with any questions or comments and keep watching this
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