Rain Pieces - John Ryan Brubaker
Rain Pieces
John Ryan Brubaker
This series is an attempt to observe the microclimate shift atop the ridge where I live, and to engage with the rainforest nature of the place. I use the 19th-Century Van Dyke and Cyanotype photographic processes to make these records of water and sunlight. I see them as visual artifacts from my immediate personal and atmospheric environment.
John Ryan Brubaker (he/him) is a visual artist based in West Virginia. He is interested in the peripheries of the photographic process, experimenting with everything from presentation and distribution models to the chemical make up of photographic paper. Often utilizing hybrid forms of photographic media, he builds collections of visual records from his environment, at times using river water, found coal or rainfall to make prints, books and installations. He has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, the Juliet Museum, the Hirshhorn, Harlan Levey Projects and many others. He has been published by the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ampersand Editions, the Fotomuseum of Antwerp and others.
