Here you will find an artist statement and general information on Justin Rymer

Justin Rymer was born in Blue Hill, Maine, in the year 1979. Father, Paul Rymer, was an engineer in the Coast Guard.

Afer moving around every couple of years, his family settled in Virginia Beach, VA. This is where Justin attended High School, before moving to Richmond, VA to attend university at Virginia Commonwealth Univ. School of Art. There he majored in sculpture. After college Justin Rymer, along with painting partner and friend Christopher Hines, did LASER installations in various nightclubs around the country, including Limelight (NYC), Axis/Radius(Phoenix) and Orbit (So. Fl.). Some years past before Justin and Chris moved back to NYC where Justin Rymer has been living painting and working since 2003.

Justin Rymer is a New York artist who concerns himself with idealisms, contradiction, and the glamorous. Justin manipulates concepts; such as connectivity and metaphors, to create an illustrative vocabulary in order to have a visual dialog with the viewer. With modern art in a veritable stasis, Justin uses this opportunity to bring to light the importance of contingencies. A contingent, as a cultural variable, will bring other choices and options; other opinions. This sort of interruptive change is essential to social development, and is in great lack at the present time.

Our momentary state as a society only allows for fear and not dissent. We are encouraged to be as safe as possible. Justin Rymer brings forth the possibility of change through creating work that is "un-safe". Justin provokes the senses with a clash of the pleasing and that of the crass; an asymmetrical didactism.

The "not quite right" is what gives Justin's work it's edge, but that doesn't complete to story. We, as viewers, require completion and fulfillment. In order to allow for closure, Justin includes a fragrance of glamour. This Pop sensibility brings the asymmetry and slight confusion together in harmony by presenting the viewer with hope. For, what is glamour, if not the possibility of a manifestation of the ideal and fantastic? Our dreams come true? Justin Rymer works to communicate these to people in hopes that people will begin to open themselves more to variables. Once we start down this path, we can truly live again.

Justin Rymer Art 2006