Ryan Oskin (b. 1989, USA) investigates themes of domesticity and nature through photography, sculpture, and video. He is a current resident of Artha Project in Queens, New York. His work has been shown throughout the United States in Chicago, Portland, New Orleans, and New York City. He graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Photography in 2012. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Domestic Objects is comprised of still life photographs and sculptures investigating the image as an everyday occurrence. These works posit the photograph as a physical thing that follows us from our homes to outside in the commercial and art worlds. This ongoing transformation of the photograph always ends within our minds and our rooms. Household fixtures, functional objects, and other substances (plants, food, rocks) become materials to alter the boundaries and meanings images. By utilizing these images as part of my process and as a final product, I am able to translate the everyday materials that can effect us most acutely into newfound photographs and image-objects.
