Current Exhibition: Intuitive Drawings / 2022–2024
The Ryan Seslow Museum of Art & Design
Exhibition Duration – Ongoing
These drawings were made fast. No planning, no sketching, no second-guessing, just a marker, a surface, and the impulse to move lines. Each one was completed in barely minutes, sometimes seconds, driven by the same intuitive energy that has fueled decades of mark-making rooted in and inspired by the NYC graffiti culture of the 1980s and 90s. The short videos in this exhibition were captured between 2022 and 2024, a two-year window of sustained creative practice documented in real time. The archive holds more video content like this, but lets start here.
This is drawing as pure instinct. The hand seems to know what to do before the mind does. Characters emerge, figures stack, lines cross, connect and sometimes overlap, not because they were designed to, but because the momentum of the mark demanded it. There is humor here, there is rhythm, there is the unmistakable joy of someone who has been drawing their whole life and never stopped finding it fun and exciting.
The short videos in this exhibition capture that process in real time, unedited, unfiltered, alive. Watch the lines think for themselves.
These works exist within a much larger body of drawing practice spanning decades, including the Chalkboard Series, in which Ryan Seslow filled the blackboards of empty college classrooms, completed each work, documented it, and left it behind. No preservation. No sale. Pure transmission.
These videos are what remained.
2016 Ephemeral Chalkboard Drawing, CUNY Queensborough Community College Campus, Dept. of Art & Design, Second floor studio. Captured with iPhone 5.
The Ryan Seslow Museum of Art & Design is a living studio, a digital museum, and an active archive that unfolds in real time. Visitors aren’t stepping into a static institution. They’re entering an evolving record of a life lived through art, design, technology, and relentless creation. Every page is a corridor in motion. Every update is a new room added to the architecture.
The museum blends decades of practice with the immediacy of daily work. Drawings, paintings, animations, sculptures, installations, writing, curriculum, experiments, 3D forms, prototypes, collaborations, and ephemeral notes all coexist here. New work appears alongside older work, creating a timeline that loops, folds, and reframes itself. This is an ecosystem dedicated to the full bandwidth of creativity rather than a curated sliver.