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Ryan McGinness, WYSIWYG, 2024, installation view, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, Photo Courtesy Miles McEnery Gallery
Ryan McGinness, Drawings, 2023, installation view, Quint Gallery, San Diego, Photo by Brian Lockhart, Photo Courtesy Quint Gallery
Ryan McGinness, Kraftworks, 2022, installation view, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Photo Courtesy Baldwin Gallery
Five Editions Published by Exhibition A, New York (COMING 2025: Sixth and Final Piece in this Series)
2021-2024, Each: porcelain-baked enamel on steel, 20 x 15 x 1.5 in. (50.8 x 38.1 x 3.8 cm), edition of 10
Something About the Collapse of Art & Language, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 in. (243.8 x 243.8 cm), Collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Fabricated Cultural Belief Systems, 2004, acrylic on paper, 40 x 26.5 in. (101.6 x 67.3 cm), unique variant from a series of 100, Collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York
Untitled (Charcoal Drawing 68), 2023, charcoal, ink, and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Untitled (Charcoal Drawing 50), 2023, charcoal, ink, and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Untitled (Charcoal Drawing 74), 2023, charcoal, ink, and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Supreme Color Formula Guide, 2000, five skateboards bolted together each: oil on wood panel, 32 x 8 in. (81.3 x 20.3 cm), Published by Supreme in an edition of 500 each
Release, 2007, mirror-polished stainless steel, 40 x 38.5 x 38.5 in. (101.6 x 97.8 x 97.8 cm)
Girl with Guitar (Remix), 2022, acrylic on linen, 84 x 60 in. (213.4 x 152.4 cm)
Black Holes, 2006, lithograph monoprint, 30 x 21 in. (76 x 53.3 cm), Published by Edition Copenhagen, Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The True Knowledge of Things, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 in. (243.8 x 243.8 cm), Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Art History Is Not Linear, 2009, acrylic on wood panel, 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x January 30, 2015-April 19, 2015 “Art history is not linear; although it is often taught as such. Culture is a multidimensional network that feeds and builds upon itself in a mash up that transcends time.”—Ryan McGinness Born and raised in Virginia Beach and now based in New York, McGinness (born 1972) is known for his lively marriage of abstraction and figuration. His early interest in design, illustration, and popular culture led to a flat, cleanedged style of bold logolike images. He refers to these as icons, a nod to his interest in merging corporate culture and fine art. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond commissioned McGinness to create a new multipart painting—Art History Is Not Linear (VMFA). The painting’s 200 icons are all based on works in VMFA’s collection, which McGinness studied over several years through direct observation, books, and the museum’s website. McGinness reinterpreted the works through a process of hand drawing and computer design, producing a repertoire of new icons. With intuition as his guide, he then collaged the images using the screen-printing process to create vibrant, densely layered paintings that serve as an introduction to the museum’s holdings. This exhibition explores the creative process behind the making of the commissioned painting. This exhibition has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Ryan McGinness. It is curated by John B. Ravenal, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, VMFA. Photographs and video of McGinness’s studio by Sherry Griffin, 2013. Born in Virginia Beach, VA 1972 | Lives and works in New York, U.S.A American artist Ryan McGinness draws original iconic symbols and uses them to create networks of images with surprising juxtapositions and endless associations. The artist constructs and describes his world using references to different time periods, cultures, and pictorial codesets. His visual universe is limitless. The artist is fascinated by the reduction of form and the manipulation of context, which alters the subject of representation. Intuitively, the selected fragments of art history in the visual environment function as guiding stars within the kaleidoscope of composite image material. In McGinness’ hands, the initial purpose of anonymously created universal symbols erodes, and the shape’s bare aesthetic remains. Forms act as building blocks in McGinness’ complex paintings, sculptures and installations, which contain references to the artist's own life, pop culture, and art history. McGinness grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, ensconced in the local surfing and skateboarding culture, and studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has also worked as an assistant curator at The Andy Warhol Museum. The artist has had exhibitions all over the world, and his works can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Saatchi Collection in London; the Taguchi Art Collection in Japan, and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Ryan McGinness - CV PDF American painter Ryan Joseph McGinness (born January 9, 1972) is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments. McGinness is interested in assuming the power of this anonymous aesthetic in order to share personal expressions. His work is in the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Cincinnati Art Museum, MUSAC in Spain, and the Misumi Collection in Japan. McGinness grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, an influence that is visible in much of his work. He then studied graphic design and fine art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he interned at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant.Ryan McGinness:¬
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