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OverviewBarry McGee is an artist who takes uncertainty and unpredictability as his guiding principles. Every exhibition is different. His installations have featured everything from robotic graffiti writers to entire shipping containers and automobiles. Published to accompany an exhibition at Cheim & Read, New York, this artist's book features new paintings, sculptures, photographs and images of site-specific installations. McGee's work defies easy categorization and explanation but it's possible to read into this latest body current events in the world at large. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barry McGee , Katya TylevichPublisher: Damiani Imprint: Damiani Weight: 0.730kg ISBN: 9788862086165ISBN 10: 8862086164 Pages: 98 Publication Date: 01 November 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAs a teen in the eighties, Barry McGee practiced the outlaw art of graffiti in San Francisco's public spaces; these days, he routinely gets invited to make his mark on museum walls... His cluster aesthetic, says [University of California's Berkeley Art Museum's] director, Lawrence Rinder, echoes the experience of the street...he really captures that cacophony of an inner-city American landscape. --Hilarie Sheets W Magazine Two decades of the graffiti artist's genre-defying work are collected in all their art-for-all glory.--Ryan Porter Flare Magazine Two decades of the graffiti artist's genre-defying work are collected in all their art-for-all glory.--Ryan Porter Flare Magazine As a teen in the eighties, Barry McGee practiced the outlaw art of graffiti in San Francisco's public spaces; these days, he routinely gets invited to make his mark on museum walls... His cluster aesthetic, says [University of California's Berkeley Art Museum's] director, Lawrence Rinder, echoes the experience of the street...he really captures that cacophony of an inner-city American landscape. --Hilarie Sheets W Magazine Author InformationBarry McGee (born 1966) began exhibiting his work in the 1980s--not in a museum or gallery setting but on the streets of San Francisco. In the early 90s he was closely associated with the Mission School and the San Francisco Bay Area's graffiti boom. In 2001 his work was included in the Venice Biennale. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |