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Openings: Ryan McGinness – “Women: Blacklight Paintings & Sculpture” @ Charles Banks

Posted by juggernut3, May 21, 2012

Ryan McGinness is an artist with a seemingly limitless passion and a work ethic to match as evidenced by his back to back exhibition in New York City during Frieze week. First was his very technical Sketches & Solutions at Gering Lopez (covered). Then the following night, Ryan took across town to Charles Banks Gallery for the next installment of his eye catching UV reactive painting series entitled Women: Blacklight Paintings & Sculptures (See previous stops in LA, NYC, Miami & PdP). Utilizing his nude figurative studies and taking them […]

Openings: Ryan McGinness – “Women: Sketches & Solutions” @ Gering Lopez

Posted by sleepboy, May 15, 2012

A couple weekends ago, New York City got their second dose (see Pace Primatives show) of Ryan McGinness’ work in as many months when Women: Sketches & Solutions opened at Gering Lopez. This first solo exhibition with the gallery featured pieces that demonstrated the NY-based painter, illustrator, and designer’s creative process in regards to his ongoing series the past several years on the deconstructed female form. Also, the exhibition was separated in two parts – this uptown venue where everything was entirely in black & […]

Openings: Ryan McGinness – “Geometric Primatives” @ Pace Primative

Posted by juggernut3, April 4, 2012

On Friday night, AM attended the opening for Ryan McGinness’ new show at New York’s Pace Primative. As the title Geometric Primitives indicates, Ryan utilizes his signature vocabulary of graphics and applies them to the African works that are at the core of the this specific gallery. Sounds simple right? Well this knock out exhibition is definitely more than meets the eye as Mr. McGinness raided the vast archives of African tribal art at gallery for reference, then proceeded to use repeated drawings to break down each […]

Teaser: Ryan McGinness – “Geometric Primitives” @ Pace Primitive

Posted by sleepboy, March 28, 2012

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 […]

Releases: Ryan McGinness x Incase

Posted by sleepboy, November 17, 2011

Coming on the heels of other notable artist collaborations from Incase (Andy Warhol and Jose Parla) is a new line of protective coverings by Ryan McGinness. The NY-based artist and designer created some cases and sleeves for your Apple product needs featuring his signature spirographic aesthetic. More examples after the jump…

Openings: Ryan McGinness – “SponsorshipREDUX” @ Subliminal Projects

Posted by sleepboy, June 15, 2011

Last Saturday, Ryan McGinness hit up the final leg of his exhibition schedule in LA with a show at Subliminal Projects. SponsorshipREDUX is a remix of his 2003 show, where corporate logos were sized on the gallery walls according to their level of sponsorship for the exhibition. This time around, the logos (including ours), were deconstructed and the parts used as compositional ingredients in a series of four paintings and two print editions. More photos by Brandon Shigeta after the jump…

Ryan McGinness – Live Drawing Sessions & Drawing Salon Party @ The Standard (LA)

Posted by sleepboy, June 6, 2011

Returning to The Standard in Hollywood, site of his Women: The Blacklight Paintings show a couple of weekends ago, Ryan McGinness continued his busy schedule in LA with drawing sessions as he sketched live models in the hotel lobby glass vitrine space (see Tim Biskup) last Wednesday thru Friday. Also, just this Saturday night, the guests were invited to participate by the pool deck as more art went down at the Drawing Salon Party. Brandon Shigeta was on hand to document all the action. More […]

Openings: Ryan McGinness – “Women: The Blacklight Paintings” @ The Standard (Los Angeles)

Posted by sleepboy, May 30, 2011

Ryan McGinness showed a darker side to his work on Saturday night, when the third installment of his Women: The Blacklight Paintings series opened at The Standard Hotel’s Purple Lounge in West Hollywood. As with the events at Art Basel Miami last year (covered) and in New York early this year (covered), his luminescent deconstructions of the female form graced the walls of the establishment while similarly painted dancers cavorted about the room. Of note, coinciding with the party was also the release of McGinness’ Blacklight Nudie […]

Openings: Ryan McGinness – “Sketchbook Selections” @ Giant Robot 2

Posted by sleepboy, May 29, 2011

Just this past Friday night, Ryan McGinness started to hit his stride as he continued on to the middle part of his tour of LA. The special book signing, barbecue, exhibition of sketches, and lecture all rolled into one was held at Giant Robot 2 on Sawtelle street. AM will have more for you as we continue coverage of the NY-based artist’s slate of shows as we move into early June. More photos courtesy of Brandon Shigeta after the jump…

Openings: Ryan McGinness – “Trophies” @ PRISM

Posted by sleepboy, May 27, 2011

Last night, PRISM filled its spacious gallery rooms with Trophies, the fourth in a series of shows from Ryan McGinness. As with the other Los Angeles exhibitions we have already covered (Michael Kohn & Country Club), this showing centered around a theme – gold sculptural pieces based on his Women series or works. Along with some wall murals, these 3-dimensional representations from the NY-based artist are taken from his deconstruction of the female form. More opening pics after the jump from Brandon Shigeta.