Name: Ryan Klemek
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 135 lbs
Birthday: March 28
Favorite food: lobster ravioli
Favorite color: green
2nd favorite color: purple

 

Ryan Klemek was born in Syracuse, NY in 1975. Before this happened, his parents hit a deer with their car while his mother was pregnant with him. Despite this fact, he never grew antlers or developed any superhuman deer-like abilities.

Some time after his birth, Ryan began drawing. At Shaker High School under the tutelage of Karen Fischer and Susan Stuart, his observational skills were developed. Here he learned that lines don't exist around objects in nature, and that it is cheating to draw from photographs. After high school he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he learned not a heck of a lot. He did learn that representational art was not creative, but using as many bodily fluids as possible in art WAS creative. All kidding aside, the Museum School did help him to loosen up and follow his instincts more. And through the school's affiliation with Tufts University, he was also able to "get smarter". His BFA technically comes from Tufts so he looks pretty good on paper. Not as good as someone who went to RISD and took classes at Brown, but not too shabby for an art kid.

Some time during college, Ryan started drawing caricatures for a company in Weymouth, MA called Fun Enterprises. Among the lessons he learned from sitting outside at Quincy Market for 10 hours a day in August was that if you forget to put sunblock on your ears, you will be very sad for many days. Also, he developed better line quality with a brush pen and his portrait work improved. In addition to visual art, Ryan is a martial artist and performance artist. He is a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, focusing mainly on endurance and agility training. He also wrestles with monsters. This is not a metaphor for "struggling with personal demons"-he literally wrestles with monsters.