ABOUT WESLEY

WESLEY RYAN was born in some pre-social media, cheesy, 80’s Hollywood epic, a primitively sage Californian babe, glistening with cocoa butter allure. After an initial love affair with the west coast sun and beaches; he found himself already moving on, smitten with the flat planes and deep snows of Illinois. It is there that #WRC generated a sense of fearlessness, almost to the point of self-endangerment. High school years were spent in beautiful Connecticut, an other-worldly bubble constructed sheerly of education, might, and potential. University was a grand experiment at the School of Visual Arts in New York City where #WRC studied underneath names like; Audra Geras, Bill Mayer, Kevin O’Callaghan, Steven Brodner, Bruce Waldman, Gene Stavis, John Ruggeri, Marty Abrahams, Olga Mezhibovskaya, Carin Goldberg, Peter Fiore, Raul Colon, Richard Mehl, Sean Mellyn, Steven Assael, T.M. Davy, and Thomas Woodruff. Current mentors and strategic partners include (but are not limited to) Tricia Weber, McKenzie Liautaud, Brett Compton, Gianina Ferreyra, Jaime Steiger and Robert Verdi.

Some say that #WRC is enthusiastic to the point of near stalkerdom; Truly though he is simply delirious in his hunger to taste all the flavors of life in and through art, food, music, flesh, and in soul. Usually, he is found in a constant state of flux, refining his senses not just to observe the moment, but to thrill to it! Most importantly, he generally never is afraid to appear the wildly foolish bumbler in pursuit of that fleeting effervescent moment of transcendence, when mere stimulus turns into inspiration.

#WRC lives with his husband - MAREK WILK - a polish philosopher and language specialist. He hopes to befriend those individuals who subscribe to an ethos of unapologetic hyperbole in opinion, wardrobe, and sensation.

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I honor and acknowledge the land politically designated as New York City to be the ancestral home of the Lenape (Lenapehoking) people, who were violently displaced as a result of European settler colonialism over the course of 400 years.