Ryan Woodring

Ryan Woodring is an artist and animator who breaks apart streams of video in to individual frames and uses these frames to extrude uncanny sculptural accounts of recorded history.  Originally from Doylestown, PA, he spent eight years in Pittsburgh before moving to Portland, Oregon in July of 2013 to work at Laika Animation on a feature film <em>The Boxtrolls.</em>  He has shown extensively in solo and group shows in Pittsburgh and has murals on display in Carnegie Mellon's Qatar Room and the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish Room in the Cathedral of Learning.  Ryan holds a BFA in Fine Arts (Electronic and Time Based) and a BA in French and Francophone Studies from Carnegie Mellon (2010).