Mario Yrissary, an experienced New Yorker, as he most often described himself, first began much of his early works in Abstract Expressionism. Yrissary, however, soon geared his artistic direction toward more systematic and pattern forming types of art. Yrissary developed a use with spray guns and airbrushes in much of his later work. Close to the later 1970s, Yrissary found himself concentrating more on patterned and sequenced forms of art.