Ion Birch (b. 1971 in New York, NY) is a reclusive artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Birch is best known for his graphite on paper works which incorporate phallic symbols and other erotic imagery with his signature style of indirect self-portraiture.
Enraptured men and women housed in both Victorian and contemporary settings are depicted in perpetual stages of anticipation, expulsion and debauchery. The protagonist/antagonist in each piece is a thinly disguised version of the artist, appearing as the focus of the narrative, or featured in the periphery. Through this indirect form of self-portraiture, Birch offers us works that are journeys of self-discovery, taking particular interest in the awkwardly inaccurate ways one sees oneself.
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