Barry McGee 🇺🇸 Mission School Art Movement

[sal]

yup, very exciting indeed!... but also, a bit frustrating cause I missed it by some 10 days...

[Happy Shopper]

Very much looking forward to this!
Too much going on this week in London. Ron English, Murakami, McGee...

[danmuppet]

Looking for smaller works! Cheers!

[punkwithtats]

PrismLA still has some drawings available from their McGee/Frost show.

[Sacked...]

Barry McGee
New Work
1 July – 13 August
Private view 30 June, 6-8pm
Modern Art is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Barry McGee. This is McGee’s third solo show with
Modern Art, and his first exhibition in London for six years.
Barry McGee’s style and visual language has an instantly recognisable character and unique voice. His work draws its
structures and graphic impact from the influences of tagging, ‘Mission School’ abstraction, and vandalism, meeting a
formal and installational logic that draws on the conventions of contemporary painting and sculpture. The core of
McGee’s practice is the expressive immediacy and spirit of independence that is rooted in the culture and histories of
socially motivated intervention in the public realm.
McGee’s paintings and drawings incorporate elegantly draughted elements of figurative linework and repetitive
tessellations of geometric, abstract patterns which synthesise found and invented source material. In both formal and
informal contexts, bold combinations of colour, shape and knowledgably crafted graphic elements sit against and beside
one another, alive with energy and empathy. His pictorial sense touches on the global reach of unsanctioned art that
takes place within the fabric of urban architecture, but equally on Hispanic and Latin-American decorative arts, and
functional graphics sourced from the post-consumer world. Hundreds of uniquely painted panels and objects can be
fitted together, butted against one another in an immersive, site-responsive hang that results from McGee’s openly
intuitive working method.
Barry McGee was born in San Francisco, USA, in 1966. He studied painting and printmaking at the San Francisco Art
Institute, completing a BFA in 1991. Despite an initial hesitance to exhibit in traditional art world contexts, Barry
McGee’s work has, throughout the past decade, increasingly embraced gallery and museum environments. Next year
Barry McGee’s work will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition at California’s Berkeley Art Museum, USA. Recent
solo museum exhibitions include They Don’t Make this Anymore, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
(2008); Advanced Mature Work, Redcat, Los Angeles, USA (2007); The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan (2007); John Kaldor Art Projects, Metropolitan Meat Market, Melbourne, Australia (2004); Things Are Really
Getting Better, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands (2005); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, USA
(2004); Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy (2002): UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2000); and Regards,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (1998). McGee’s work has been included in museum shows including The
Anniversary Show, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA (2009); Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA (2009);
2009 Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France (2009); Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA (2008);
Meditations In An Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan, USA (2006); On Line, The Louisiana
Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (2005); The Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (2002); Drawing Now, Museum of Modern
Art, New York, USA (2002); The 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2001); and Indelible Market, Institute ofContemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA (2000).
For further information please contact Ryan Moore at Stuart Shave/Modern Art: [e-mail]

[Agent Provocateur]

Is anyone going tonight?

[eschiff]

Jun 30, 2011 11:38:40 GMT 1 Agent Provocateur said:

Is anyone going tonight?

think i'll head down there after work

[Agent Provocateur]

Did you email them to get on the guest list eschiff? I did but am waiting for a reply.

[curiousgeorge]

pdf available??

[Happy Shopper]

What kind of prices do Barry's pieces go for? How much roughly for a small original?

[Happy Shopper]

Jun 30, 2011 12:13:11 GMT 1 curiousgeorge said:

pdf available??

Not yet. Maybe later today if they have time to get it all ready... apparently!

[sal]

oh man, how Id like to be able to check this one out! ...

if there are any showcards or any other freebies available, I'd appreciate if someone can grab me one... thanks a lot, and have a great evening!

[geoffw]

Jun 30, 2011 11:49:52 GMT 1 Agent Provocateur said:

Did you email them to get on the guest list eschiff? I did but am waiting for a reply.

Was told there is no guest list or RSVP just turn up

[Agent Provocateur]

Cheers guys, I just trucked up and ambled in... quality show, just wish I'd had sum LSD, could hav stood in front of the patterned wall and melted in

Peace... with great big mutton chops

[chaserawr]

I need photos!!!!

[Agent Provocateur]

chaserawr I know jusdeep took quite a few photos... say something nice about his taste in art or the quality cards he did for Pez's charity sale and he may get a shifty on and post them... unless he's still chowing down on a cordon blue doner kebab ;D

[Sacked...]

I've always said that justdeeps art reminds me of a kebab:).

[jusdeep]

Lol. Thanks, I think Gary. Here we go…









The rest can be found here:
s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll147/jusdeep/Barry%20McGee%20New%20Work/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ16

[Sacked...]

It was a compliment M..i love kebabs,me.Thanks for the pics.

[sand]

Just got back home...great show that I guess crept up on a lot of us!

Lots of lovely clusters. Geometric pieces are incredibly bright and dazzling in person, and the line work on the portraits is stunning .

It's great to see a pioneer of the movement like McGee back in the UK. It's the first time i've seen a lot of his work in the same space and it is really impressive.

I was told that prices start at $8k and go up to $150k for the massive cluster.

Thanks to Henry for keeping me company, great to meet you fella!

Here's a few snaps of the show (sorry for the awful quality, all I had was my phone!).

Also managed to get a book and small bit of board signed by the man! Result! ;D

[Harveyn]

Thanks Jusdeep and Sand for the great images. What a fantastic looking show. Just love Barry's work.

Hope you don't mind Jusdeep me posting a few more of your images.

Loving these three, in fact loving them all.

[Happy Shopper]

Few phone pics:

[Happy Shopper]

Got a little signed memento too!

[des77]

That is too cool ! even more gutted I couldnt go now

[Coach]

Me too Des!
Great stuff Sand - loving your momentos!
They pics look great.
Not so keen on the price range though!

[chaserawr]

aww man thanks for the pictures guys. Looks like an amazing show. I saw a small original face OG in LA last week and I feel in love with his work. Anybody buy anything?

[sal]

this looks like an amazing show.. much more works than I expected!..

thanks for the photos everyone, and special thanks to happyshopper for getting me a showcard!..

[speebe]

Damn........ wish i'd gone tonight now.

Ahh well, I will pop down tomorrow.

[hanky]

Really great show and like others just popped in no queue!

[jp226]

BUMP IT UP. STILL LOOKING.