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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