Digital Art
by Midori
Under Giants
Digital Art
by Midori
Under Giants
From the Woods to the Gallery...
In the autumn and early winter of 2018, Midori and her fiancé were living in a tent in the woods.
A recipe of student loan debt, sudden trauma, and an abusive landlord... set on the backdrop of the Vancouver housing crisis, had resulted in sudden homelessness for the recently engaged couple...
At a local resource centre, Midori stumbled across a poster for a local artist's call for Lost + Found Cafe & Gallery; and despite her circumstances, applied with some old digital work from her college days...
Only days after finally achieving stable housing, Midori's work was accepted into Lost + Found's group exhibit "Dreams." She debuted at "Dreams" from January to March 2019 as Midori Under Giants... a name that represents the barriers she's overcome.
Midori went on to exhibit at the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (#VOAF) in Aug. 2019; contribute art to MDABC's "Art Against Stigma" anti-mental health stigma campaign, and simultaneously returned to Lost + Found with pieces from her "Intense World" collection for the cafe-gallery's 4-month "Mad Universe" exhibit from July to October 2019.
Midori with her wall and "Intense World" collection at the 2019 Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (#VOAF).
Photo courtesy of Erlendr Wooley.
Midori's piece "Pedestrians" occupies the mid-ground
of "Mad Universe" promotional material.
At VOAF, Midori was discovered by the Pacific Arts Market, and exhibited there from September 2019 to January 2020.
In September 2019, her work also made an appearance in the Pancakes & Booze Pop-Up Underground Art Show at Fortune Sound Club; to where she'll be returning in April 2020.
Art from Midori has been used in promotional material for both "Dreams" and "Mad Universe;" as well as to promote sublimation printing on aluminum in-store by Opus Arts & Supplies.
Background:
Midori was a student of the JumpstArt ’09 arts & humanities program in Coquitlam, studied psychology at Douglas College, and later completed an associate’s equivalent intensive diploma in Graphic Design from LaSalle College where she studied graphic design and multidisciplinary art with a specialization in concept creation in 2015.
She then worked for some time as a freelance graphic designer, largely creating logos, business cards, websites and other brand package materials for local startups.
She worked as a freelance graphic designer until 2017, followed by an exclusive focus on a storybook illustration client (yet-to-be published) and a brief stint as a personal editor in 2018.
Midori is now working on her first commissioned tattoo designs, and learning wirework jewelry techniques from her fiancé. She hopes to soon present her first pieces to the devoted fans of her art!
Midori's wall at the Pancakes & Booze Pop-Up Underground Art Show @ Fortune Sound Club in Vancouver's Chinatown.
Photo courtesy of Erlendr Wooley
The bass at this event was so heavy, "Pedestrians"
(bottom right corner) vibrated off the wall three times throughout the night.
Encouragement from the London Drugs PhotoLab.
Midori Ryans
Exhibit at the Pacific Arts Market
(brag: built it myself).
Photo courtesy of Erlendr Wooley.