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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