Ryan Schmal Murray

Out Through the Mouth

Site-specific, 3-channel digital video projection, 2:00The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD Out Through the Mouth combines LIDAR-scanning, 3D animation, and digital compositing in a self-portrait about…

Eyelydian

360° digital video, 3:15 Eyelydian is a 360° video that uses abstraction, animated geometric patterning, and photographic images to call to mind the colors, patterns, and…

Middle

Digital video, 5:25 Middle is an altered found footage/reenactment video that explores three meanings of the middle finger. The video is broken into three sections:…

Fake Believe

Digital video, 3:38 Fake blood watering fake flowers. In this time when we call fake things real and real things fake, what are we growing?…

Perfect Pixels

Four-channel digital video on four digital frames, gaffer’s tape Perfect Pixels is a video sculpture series in which the Rule of Thirds intersection pixels of…

Grandients

Vine series, 56 6-second videos 6-second video loops that shift from one randomly-generated color to another, posted daily on the micro-video social media site Vine.…

Space Helmet

Globe, papier-mâché, box, antennae, plastic tubes, spray paint, plastic film, video monitor, 2 minute digital video loop Space Helmet is aesthetically inspired by a 1950s…

Lost

Inkjet on paper, exposed to water and sunlight, in plastic sheet protectors The Lost series is a group of dozens and dozens of “lost” flyers…

Console

Console: Entertainment System Broken Nintendo Entertainment System, polyurethane foam, latex paint The Console series is a group of found-object sculptures created from the popular video…

Every Feature Film on my Hard Drive, 3 Pixels Tall and Sped Up 7000%

Digital video 3:29 2013 Every Feature Film On My Hard Drive, 3 Pixels Tall and Sped Up 7000% is comprised of 240 Hollywood movies running…

Ensomphaloskepsis

Digital Video2:132013 Enso drawings and navel-gazing connect in this performance. The search for self-improvement is also a search of self-involvement.

All Things

Digital video, 1:30 2013 Nothing lasts forever.

Picture Frame

Digital images loop on digital picture frame 2012 This sculpture utilizes the digital picture frame as subject matter and as an animated video format. Images…

Fireplace

High-definition video loop, monitor, installed in a decorative fireplace 2012 This high-definition video of a fake fire in a fake fireplace was created as a…

Pasticcio Furioso Set Design

In collaboration with Phil Davis and Sean Hannan Live-projected video set design for opera 2012 A project-video set design, performed live for the opera Pasticcio…

Panda Claws

Live video projection accompanying live electronic dance music The Brillobox, Pittsburgh, PA 2011 (in collaboration with Sean Hannan) and 2012 Live psychedelic video mashups and…

A Broadcast Called Life

Digital Video, 10:40 2010 This garbled broadcast is mistakenly interpreted as an anthropological study of a single species, suggesting a peculiar and complex anatomical structure…

Simple Gifts

In collaboration with students and faculty from the Towson University Music Department and Electronic Media and Film Department Digital Video, 3:27 2011 This video is…

Get Inked!

In collaboration with Kelly Schmal Performed for Artscape Midway 2010 Funded in part by the Baltimore Office for Promotion of the Arts Participatory Installation 2010…

Bottomless Pit

5″ x 48″ x 48″ Latex, acrylic, oil, india ink, and charcoal on canvas 2009 The portal comes off the wall and onto the floor,…

First There Is a Mountain, Then There Is No Mountain, Then There Is

5″ x 48″ x 24″ Latex on canvas, spotlight, and shelf 2009 Mountains of paint raised like geological strata from canvas surround a spotlit absence,…

Balsam of Life

Performance for Video, 1:24 2009 An attempt is made to redeem the power of the lava lamp by bottling its magical fluids as the Balsam…

Balsam of Life

Lava lamp, bottle opener, Turlington’s Balsam of Life bottle, pedestal, and shelf 2009 An attempt is made to redeem the power of the lava lamp…

The Greys

Graphite, ink, contÃ©, oil stick, gouache on inkjet prints on paper 2009 The gray beards of great thinkers and philosophers, drawn from historical busts and…

Color Theory Blacklight Posters

30″ x 22″ each Flourescent acrylic and black flocking on paper, blacklight 2009 The aestheticized forms of various color theories and colorspaces replace the trippy,…

Portal

Computer keys, dowels 2009 A readymade portal, allowing magical transport through your personal computer keyboard to virtual worlds and online fantasies.

Medicine Cabinet Portal and Potions and Galactic Portal Refrigerator Magnets, In and Out

Project for Second Bedroom Project Space’s Medicine CabinetInstallation, latex, acrylic, oil on mirror with painting supplies in glass bottles and magnets on refrigerator2009 An installation…

Portal

Digital Video loop, 4:53 2009 Machinima and video art combine in this video projection portal. A spinning, shifting portal created from manipulated footage of a…

Portal

7′ x 4′ Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2009 One of theÂ PortalÂ series, this one a portal with a deep black center.

Portal

7′ x 4′ Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2009 One of theÂ PortalÂ series, this one a portal with a deep black center.

Portal

Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2009 One of the Portal series, this one a portal with its shape defined by its bounding edge.

Portal

Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2009 One of theÂ PortalÂ series, this one a portal with its shape defined by its bounding edge.

Portal

7′ x 4′ Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2008 A second magic portal, a passage to some other world. Perhaps it connects to the…

Portal

7′ x 4′ Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2008 A magic portal offering a connection to some other world. Entrance might be an opportunity…

Vanish

Digital Video, 0:37 2008 A mentor/wizard character speaks his last words before succumbing, vanishing, and sending the viewer on their quest.

Temporary Settlement

In Collaboration with Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford Installation, dimensions variable 2008 The next step after initial discovery and exploration could be said to be temporary settlement —…

Archaeoastronomical Alignments

6′ x 8′ (diptych) Latex, acrylic, and oil on two canvases 2008 A random spatter of paint or an accurate view of stars as they…

Potions, Elixirs, and Reagents series

dimensions variable Glass apothecary and laboratory bottles, acrylic and oil painting supplies 2008 Science and magic, chemistry and alchemy, medicine and fantasy. The materials of…

Core

4′ x 6′ Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2008 Core material leaks from a diagram, attracting amorphous vehicles and protean beings to visit, probe,…

L’atmosphere

6′ x 8′ (diptych) Latex, acrylic, and oil on two canvases 2007 The Liberty Cap crowns protean beings as a symbol of simultaneous freedom and…

The Arecibo Message II

6′ x 4′ Latex, acrylic, oil, and graphite on canvas 2007 A binary-coded, pixel art message to the universe, broadcast in 1974 from the Arecibo…

IAODAF

5′ x 3′ Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2007 A cosmic creation myth that emanates from the infinity of the Loch Ness Monster swallowing…

Hidden

5′ x 3′ Latex, acrylic, and oil on canvas 2007 Images from sightings of cryptids, animals that may or may not exist, live in various…

Five Years

Digital Video, 3:43 2007 The eschatology of the Mayans, Terrence McKenna, and David Bowie come together in the performance of “Five Years” on the date…

The Arecibo Message

3′ x 4′ (triptych) Latex, acrylic, and oil on three canvases 2006 Medieval Europe’s Bigfoot, the Woodwose, sends the Arecibo Message into the cosmos to…