Ryan Medeiros is a designer, educator, and artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spends most days designing, teaching, and managing his online Etsy store Posterdelic.
Ryan has a strong background in traditional art and studied drawing, painting and photography at UC Santa Cruz, California. His mixed-media art works were shown in San Francisco galleries in 2007 and 2008.
His current work consists of a series of mixed-media artworks on paper, canvas and panel. His primary techniques are screen printing in multiple layers, collage elements, spray paint, and gestural drawing. His influences relate to nostalgic pop images and cultural themes from the 1970s and 80s.
Ryan grew up studying and idolizing Pop artists such as Warhol and Basquiat. The lifestyle and artistic vision of skateboarding has also been a huge influence, along with the rock posters and psychedelic visuals that have been a part of his life since childhood.