Ryan McGinness's work resolves the clinical graphic aesthetics of media as vast, contemplative fields of intimate meditation. Under Five Chairs Psychiatrists Wink is set across three panels, each beaconing with a baroque entrancement. Woven together with delicate intricacy, McGinness's forms converge in a kaleidoscope of free-flowing associations: Stylised motifs, calligraphic patterns, and abstracted tattoo-like insignia overlap in arabesque mandalas. Framed within rich black and red planes, McGinness's painting is reminiscent of ancient tapestries, fabricating the iconography of contemporary experience as spiritual and timeless.
Ryan McGinness's Biography and Exhibitions
Born in Virginia Beach Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000
Shtick, Houston Gallery, Seattle Luxurygood, Alife, New York
1999
Flatnessisgod, Zakka, New York
1998
Networking Is a Skill, Chaos, New York
1997
No Sweat, Manhattan Athletic Club, New York
1996
Clever Title Goes Here, a+a Company, New York Slow Children Playing, Mad River Post, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002
SK8 on The Wall, Gallery Rocket, Tokyo, Japan Session The Bowl, Deitch Projects, New York Street Wise, A-Part Gallery, London Group Show, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla
2001
Artissima Turin Art Fair, Artissima, Turin-Torino, Italy Grandes Arquitecturas Pequenas, Galeria Dasto and Centro de Arte Dasto, Oviedo, Spain Spunky, Exit Art, New York Group Show, Ground Zero, New York
2000
Critic as Grist, White Box, New York Tomorrow, Rare, New York Le Salon for Art Collectors, Babylon, London Group Show, Steffany Martz, New York Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford
1999
Size Matters, Gale Gates, Brooklyn Photo Synthesis, Rare, New York Road Show, DFN Gallery, New York Room with a View, Sixth@Prince Fine Art, New York LA National Juried Art Exhibition, Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
Fresh Blood: 13 Young Artists, Archibold Arts, New York Le Salon for Art Collectors, Vanessa Suchar, London
1997
Summer Invitational, Steffany Martz, New York Wet Paint, Mary Anthony, New York Group Show, a+a Company, New York
1996
Giftland v: Democra$y, Printed Matter, New York Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York
Article Theme :- McGinness has been a catalyst for the design/art argument: his art looks like graphic design. The fact that his work usually appears in traditional graphic media like books, installations and products only reinforces that perception.
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Smith collages together newspapers, drawings, and posters to create a readymade abstraction. Smith is best known for his paintings in which he uses the letters of his own name in various configurations as a subject matter. Through Untitled's process of assemblage, his stockpiled typefaces are used with similar effect. Loosing their function as information, words, scribbles, and symbols merge as a cacophony of prefab mark-making. In presenting a barrage of appropriated expression, Smith questions the hierarchical structures by which meaning is created.
Josh Smith's Biography and Exhibitions
1978 Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
1994-1996 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
1996-1998 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee BFA
Fortescue Avenue /Jonathan Viner, London Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York Catherine Bastide Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Make It Plain, New York Taxter and Spengemann Gallerey, Faces, New York
2004
Rena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
2003
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels Volume Gallery, New York M Shanghai Bistro, Chinese Paintings Margo Victor Presents, Dial "J" For Josh, Los Angeles
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003
Mighty Graphitey, Feature Gallery, New York Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002
Copy Books, Roth Horowitz, New York
2000
New Work: Abstract Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
1999
Mr. Fascination, Threadwaxing Space, New York
1998
Remix, Team Gallery, New York
Article Theme :- Josh Smith's works explore ideas of authorship and originality. In Untitled, Smith interrupts his collaged backdrop of photocopies and printed matter with hand-painted elements, both elevating the aura of mechanized copy and demoting the autonomy of the artist's gesture.
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