On Friday night, March 30th, Pace Primitive in New York will be hosting the opening of Ryan McGinness’ newest solo show entitled Geometric Primitives. The title of the show plays off a term used in computer graphics, which is part of NYC-based artist’s process, that refer the smallest and irreducible geometric elements that the system can handle such as lines, circles, curves, and polygons. Continuing on this theme, McGinness has taken advantage of Pace Primitive’s inventory of African art, which has historically featured schematic reductions of the human figure, and has produced over 50 new drawings based these works creating kind of an interesting overlapping of techniques seen in different time periods and regions. These drawings and the series of paintings, works on paper, cyanotypes, and prints that result from them, will be on display along with the African works of art that were the inspiration for the pieces.
This will be the first major exhibition that AM will be attending from McGinness since his whirlwind tour of Los Angeles with a series of shows last year, so we’ll be sure to share some photos with you afterwards. For those interested, an editioned silkscreen print has been published on the occasion of this exhibition with proceeds from the sale before July 11th, 2012 to benefit the Africa Foundation (USA) – details here.
Discuss Ryan McGinness here.
