Proposal and Mind Map

Exhibition in a Box

Ryan Karson is a graphic designer and artist who works primarily with traditional art forms like painting. He is best known for his murals and use of optical illusions. Karson was born in Eugene Oregon in 1972 to Louise and Johnathon Karson. His earliest recorded efforts at design are evident in the school yearbook's from his Senior cover year which includes an illustration of the school logo similar to his later style.

Karson attended the University of Oregon from 1990-1992 studying fine arts and refining his skills as a painter. Then, in 1993 he received a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of design. He graduated in 1995 with a bachelor's in graphic design and went on to work for a number of advertising firms. In his free time he began painting murals pro-bono as part of a charity effort to cut down on graffiti. Eventually he became bored with normal design work, and in 2002 he started his own business creating murals and other public art. He quickly became well known for his work in optical illusions, creating paintings on walls and sidewalks that, from the right angle would appear three dimensional.

For the exhibition I want to use photographs of murals that match the style of my fictional artist. I plan to crop them and super -impose them onto virtual surface that matches the angle of the original surface. The end result will be an image that looked like a a room with a series of murals painted on the walls and floor. I also might make a kind of minuature three sided cardboard room with the images on the walls.