#neopop

Takashi Murakami (b. 1962)

My Lonesome Cowboy, 1998

Oil, acrylic, fiberglass and iron

Wayne Edson Bryan, 11 Neopop Collages (details), All works 2025, digital collage/study for painting created with 26.1.0 Adobe Photoshop. No generative ai tools were used.

In a world increasingly filtered through screens, I create images that hover between presence and illusion. 

My work is a collision of analog and digital - paint, pixels, collage, and code - layered to form dense, hybrid spaces where meaning fragments and reforms. I draw from the noise of the everyday: outsider art, advertising, punk energy, glitch logic. These elements don't just coexist - they clash, dissolve, and recombine. I'm interested in what happens at these points of friction: where abstraction absorbs representation, where authorship slips, and where the viewer is invited not just to look, but to question their relationship with the image. 

Using digital photo-editing tools alongside hand-drawn marks and photographs, I construct visual surfaces that feel tactile yet untouchable - illusions of depth and form that ultimately reveal themselves as constructs. These are not paintings in the traditional sense, nor are they purely digital artifacts. They are something in between - transitional objects for a transitional age. 

My work is rooted in the belief that art should challenge perception, resist categorization, and mirror the fragmented, fast-moving world we now inhabit.

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