Ryan Pressman
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“The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with the constitution of a pictorial fact.” 

                    - George Braque

“I told you the truth, …Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events…” 

                    - Salman Rushdie

My paintings, in the simplest sense, are a documentation of my life. They are created from a language based on memory and invention; built on a diagrammatical description of the world through my eyes. While they mirror reality, in some ways they distort and create their own reality as well.    
Ⓒ 2013 Ryan Pressman