Pop painter Mark Ryden is partnering with the toy company Mattel to design a series of limited-edition Barbies in his signature brand of macabre kitsch. Ryden’s dolls will be unveiled in a pop-up ...

Mark Ryden is on something of a sugar high. Backstage at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the painter giddily navigates a luscious candyland of his own creation — something he’s now seeing ...

Mark Ryden’s paintings of wide-eyed Victorian children, Abraham Lincoln, and grade-A beef wed lowbrow culture with highbrow surrealism. VIEW OUR GALLERY. Oil on panel 72 x 48 inches; 182.9 x 121.9 cm ...

Mark Ryden spent two years on the Memory Lane diorama in “The Gay 90's: West,” his second Kohn Gallery exhibition and the first show at the gallery's new Hollywood space. A dense collection of found, ...

In a city where celebrity photographers are everywhere, there aren't very many portraits that can change Angelenos' perceptions of their beloved icons. The Odd Future member stares out as us with eyes ...

Here’s how Amanda Seyfried’s art world wish — to be transformed by Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden into a caricature-on-canvas “with blood trickling down my throat and me holding a dead cat” — came true ...

American painter Mark Ryden (b. 1963) is part of the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist art movements. He has been dubbed “the godfather of pop surrealism,” as well as the “king of pop-surrealism.” Ryden is ...

Let me make one thing clear: I think it’s absolutely brilliant that someone paid $28,000 on eBay for a grilled cheese sandwich miraculously imprinted with the face of the Virgin Mary. It’s a triumph ...

Fathered by figures like Big Daddy Roth and Robert Williams, a movement affectionately called Lowbrow by its adherents has been percolating out of the quasi-underground pop culture of Southern ...