Chris Ryniak's monsters with personality

Chris Ryniak's show of vinyl/acrylic/glass/epoxy monster sculptures at MyPlasticHeart has enormous personality. It's like Keane Kids meet Basil Wolverton, and man it sure works for me.

This Could Get Ugly : New Works by Chris Ryniak (via Super Punch)

• [doingdoing]

  This is cool, kinda reminds me of Salt, a glassblower that makes mutant glass pipes.

  http://www.GlassPipes.org/Gal26423_SALT_s_Gallery.asp

• [Nword]

  Did you mean: Basil Wolverton?

  • [Cory Doctorow]

    Duh, yes — thanks!

• [godisafiction]

  Reminds me of Andrew Scott’s work
  http://www.flickr.com/people/bugmaker999/

• [xy9ine]

  this ryniak work is effectively an embellished copy of the ryden toy. curious:

  http://www.myplasticheart.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/tcgu_mallowtriclopp.jpg

  http://www.lulubelltoys.com/images/detailed_images/mark%20ryden.jpg

  • [Anonymous]

    It’s called a ‘custom’ Many well respected artists have ‘customized’ designer toys that were originally designed by other artists… it’s a major part of the designer toy culture. Nothing curious about it.

  • [venomalienz]

    If you know about Chris Ryniak at all, you should know that he does his own sculptures, AS WELL AS customized toys, which includes the Ryden toy

• [Anonymous]

  @xy9ine
  I would say it is more of a satirical take on the ryden pole.
  :)

• [Anonymous]

  This stuff is amazing…reminds me of that one guys work. What’s his name…oh yeah, Chris Ryniak

• [sdmikev]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddAi8FF3F4

  !!

• [MBotToys]

  Looking over Ryniak’s work (Paintings as well) it reminds me of my childhood growing up in the woods where the imagination can get the better of you and see little creatures hiding in the dead logs and moss, which most of his subject matter exists. In comparing to Ryden the only thing I see is similar paint style but the subject is different. Abstract vs. Character