ryan mcginness
From 'crappy' to snappy: Ryan McGinness offers a personal tour through his artistic process and his latest show
Ryan McGinness said this is his “quiet, tame, very considered exhibition.” Best known for his hyper-saturated black-light graphic paintings, typographic installations, and sculptures, the work in this show has no color at all. “This is half of the show,” McGinness said, “We are looking at the sketches, the drawings, the process. It’s all black and white. What I do with these final drawings is what I’m showing downtown and all that work is electric and show with black light and it’s the complete opposite.” McGinness has staked his reputation on appropriating pop, low brow imagery and placing it into a broader art historical framework. He’s been called the “21st century Andy Warhol.” More
