Ryan Cosbert

Ryan Cosbert (born 1999) is an American painter, installation and mixed media artist. Quotes Even though sometimes it gets camouflaged behind the paint, I just use the canvas alone and allow the paint to speak for the paintings. I feel like it helps me reach my fullest potential and then the grid would kind of be like the foundation for the painting, It gives me the chance to create a geometrical balance with the texture versus having the texture all over, covering the entire surface, so it allows me to break it up into little sections. The works that I’m making are abstract, of course, but the stories, the people, or places, or research I am presenting is still from my perspective, in my point of view. Especially when I’m picking the colors myself. I was mainly thinking about my family and thinking about slavery, and it was kind of dark. Are we carrying any weight from our past or our ancestors? Is that possible? Sure enough, it is. And every year, I’ll revamp the series and I’ll keep doing research and shockingly, every year, there’s new information on it. Order underneath abstraction: The work of artist Ryan Cosbert, May 28 2026 External Links Category:Painters Category:Living people Category:1999