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Ryan McGinness is one of the most successful contemporary young artists. His work references the visual langauge of symbols and iconography while also combining a specific garish aesthetic of whimsical, layered swirls.
Somewhere between an artist's book and a catalogue, Installationview provides insight into the works and process of artist Ryan McGinness. The book is a dense collection of new paintings, works on paper, installations, sketches and notes, inspiration snapshots, and pieces made specifically for its pages. "McGinness has developed an expansive vocabulary of eccentric, vaguely familiar symbols drawn from art historical and modern vernacular sources."--the New York Times "An unusual marriage of abstraction and representation"--Art News "For those inclined to debate the line that separates graphic design from fine art, there is no better case study than Ryan McGinness."--Metropolis "McGinness is on image overload."--the Boston Globe "The 33-year-old's recent paintings combine colorful icons drawn from mythology, pop culture, and nature"--Departures
Summary: Examines the work of Ryan McGinness, including his artwork, books, clothing, videos.
Flatnessisgod is about the basic practice of seeing and understanding how we construct and consume a picture plane. It is the graphic equivalent of the artist's book. Ryan McGinness subverts commercialism through oversaturating the eye with public domain imagery. Well respected and known throughout the commercial world, his clients include IBM, SEGA, Sire, MTV and Geffen. Contents include logo development, Graffiti tags, Art Haiku Alien Conspiracy Theories and Groundbreaking layouts.
This Book is a Collection of Essays and Interviews with Various Artists, Curators, and Writers Originally Published in 2003 on the Topic of Corporate Sponsorship and Fine Art. The Book Looks at How Corporate Over-sponsorship and Pseudo-Patronage of the Arts Have Achieved Inappropriate Levels in Which Companies that Want to Appear to be Down with a Certain Demographic Have Attempted to CO-OPT an Honest, Organic, and Real Culture with a Commercial One. In These Essays and Interviews, McGinness and His Peers Examine What it Means to Produce Limited-Edition Products Such As T-Shirts, Books, Skateboards, Prints, Figurines, Etc. As Well As What it Means for Artists to Work With Corporations. Book jacket.
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Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these "cruder," more mundane aspects of a painter's daily routine that motivated Brooklyn artist Joe Fig to embark almost ten years ago on a highly unorthodox, multilayered exploration of the working life of the professional artist. Determined to ground his research in the physical world, Fig began constructing a series of diorama-like miniature reproductions of the studios of modern art's most legendary painters, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. A desire for firsthand references led Fig to approach contemporary artists for access to their studios. Armed with a camera and a self-made "Artist's Questionnaire," Fig began a journey through the workspaces of some of today's most exciting contemporary artists.
Sketchbooks are commonplace and ubiquitous - used and referenced to varying degrees by most artists and designers. Ryan McGinness is a devoted sketcher and archivist. Sketchbook Selections collects pages out of McGinness' journals from the past decade, and it's fascinating to watch this dynamic artist resolve aesthetic and semantic concerns through a combination of ideas, words and pictures. Students, artists, designers, typographers and collectors can all enjoy the visual melange, as McGinness has a a cross-discipline appeal.
Craig Costello, aka KR, grew up in Queens, New York, where graffiti was part of the landscape and a symbol of the city. While living in San Francisco, he quickly garnered attention when his signature "KR" tag popped up throughout the city. As he became one of the more prominent figures on the streets on NYC and San Francisco, he began to hone his craft by creating better tools launching his own line of homemade markers and mops, combining his moniker KR with the word INK. In KRINK: GRAFFITI, ART, AND INVENTION, Costello has compiled a visual memoir: from his early days of the '80s and '90s and launch with the hip New York City retailer Alife, which put his brand on the map, to his evolution ...
Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said "office," think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as--if not more than--finance, real estate, and law. And these creative industries are fueled by the social life that whirls around the clubs, galleries, music venues, and fashion shows where creative people meet, network, exchange ideas, pass judgments, and set the trends that shape popular culture. The implications of Currid's argument are far-reaching, and not just for New York. ...