Ryan Mckenna
Ryan McKenna culls images from obscure 20th-century print media, reformatting, cutting, cropping, and expanding the original images to create a facsimile of a facsimile (of a facsimile, of a facsimile, ad infinitum). The resulting works are repositioned in a way that asks for revisitation and review through a new, purely aesthetic lens, freed from the initial print media's subjugation and reproduction as advertisement, editorial content, and the like.
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