Barry McGee 🇺🇸 Mission School Art Movement

[sham69]

Jul 30, 2008 15:05:05 GMT 1 mishco said:

bears the same style but i'd never hang it on my wall

cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amazing-old-graffiti-painting-on-a-huge-canvas-N-R_W0QQitemZ130242556106QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item130242556106&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1308

Is there anyone from the Forum bidding on this?
Inspite of it being dodgy, it's a great piece of art.

[thesewalls]

it is nice but knowing that he didn't do it takes away. it would be more fun if he COULD have done it. you blew it sham if it wasn't so big i'd probably have a shot, as i've always enjoyed his work and do not own any. what i really want is one of those walls in the second pic though.

what up sham!

[sham69]

I guess the $$ vs $$,$$$ is still a pretty big incentive.

[buffin]

Went to the show at the Baltic after someone wrote about it on the forum. Really enjoyed it. Sham even though thats a fake, it is pretty darn nice

[esfer]

Art is 100% fake, images compiled from several different sources...the one with the andy warhol fright-wigs is also fake...but I will admit it is one of the more interesting fakes I have ever seen. I own www.downlowsf.com and I have had over 100 McGee's pass through my hands and I help some local galleries with pricing and so on...these are fake for sure. McGee's career is at a price low right now, anybody wants an original McGee now is the time to buy one! This a-hole tried to offer me this McGee as an "original" for sale, I told him he was fake and he asked me to keep it to myself...needless to say I didn't, I told everybody I know, sorry I don't know the person who bought it! People who fake artwork should be hanged if they are trying to pass it off as unique and original, it can seriously hurt an artists pricing in a big way, such as Dali, his sale values have never recovered from the large amount of fakes produced after his death, and he is one of the greatest artists who ever lived.

[thesewalls]

downlosf in the house - holler!

$215 with a day left...surely something none of us want to support, but like you said sham, big incentive. i'm gonna go ahead and guess $485, final price...

[graeme501]

does anyone have any work by barry mcgee that is cheep-ish and they want to swap? prints and cheap originals and stuff like that

have some stuff that may interest people...

[dime683]

new images has an amazing piece in there 15 year show. $25k though.

[jamesreeve5]

I have these two originals that I am thinking of letting go. Will consider reasonable offers. Details and Photos below:

1. "Delta" Boris Tellegen, 105 East, 2007, 32 x 40 inches, painting on canvas

price: $6000





2. Barry McGee, Untitled (Cream Head), 2006, 12 x 15.5 inches, painting on board ( this item also comes framed)

price: $7500

[Zippy]

and the lovely faile?

[Harveyn]

Nice McGee.

[jamesreeve5]

May 17, 2009 21:09:07 GMT 1 Zippy said:

and the lovely faile?

sold earlier this year to a very happy forum member

[jamesreeve5]

In order to help pay for law school next year, I'm having to let a couple of things go.

1. Mark Flood, "Pleasure, Warning" 1983, collage on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches (unframed), $3500



2. Barry McGee, "Untitled (Cream Head)" 2006, acrylic on wood, 15 x 12 inches (unframed), PM me with offers

[Harveyn]

Nice Mcgee

[glltn]

Barry McGee was invited at the 10th Edition of the Biennale de Lyon art festival. McGee's work is once again breathtaking with one of his biggest installation to date!
Private viewing took place yesterday evening, here are the pictures:

glltn.com/blog/2009/09/16/barry-mcgee-biennale-de-lyon-opening/

[snausages]

Thanks for the pics, sick, Mcgee looks like he's letting go, so dirty raw minimal. Wish I could check it out.

Videos here:
slamxhype.com/art-design/barry-mcgee-at-biennale-de-lyon-video/
www.biennaledelyon.com/contemporaryart2009/




Wooden structures, vans, graffiti, tagged sculptures and colours that overspill motifs combining the decorative and the hard-edged: Barry McGee’s oeuvre is naturally, explosively in your face. McGee is one of the current art figures who have best pulled off the marriage of graffiti and urban art with a thoroughgoing mastery of his materials and the technical skill of an engineer. Frankly receptive to street culture, his work takes place in a buffer zone between the intellectual and the "popular" – a terrain of possibilities that scorns the directives and injunctions governing life in big cities.

With the support of Montana Colorst.

[Karl Read]

Certainly not the best examples of Mcgee's work iv seen.

[snausages]

I can see how you'd say that as his installations aren't always easily commodified or digested but personally I love what's gong on here. Suits the place perfectly. He's talked before about getting trapped into rhythms and doing the same thing over and over and how he wanted to break free. Which led to his more abstract work and he used to build these wood structures/sculptures and adorn them with hundreds of framed drawings, think it's refreshing to see him to think outside the box and not feel like he has to bath the whole place in drawings, it's minimal and dirty, I find it refreshing.

Slow and steady this guy, he's had numerous installations around the world now, he was also chosen to do an installation at the Armory Center for the Arts in California opening in a couple days (along side some major names like Ruscha, Nauman, Buren.
pasadenanow.com/main/2009/09/15/armory-announces-20th-anniversary-exhibition

And just had a major piece recently acquired by the Berkely Museum.
Love this piece...

[volvic]

absolutely love this and love the direction he is going in, tempted to make the trip to lyon for this

[Francis]

whut is DFW? anyone know?

[wizzy]

Book.
donutchocula.blogspot.com/2008/09/dfw-new-book-by-graffiti-artist-barry.html

[monkeyballs]

I'm liking the look of that work too, big and bold. Loving the head out the wall, enjoying the kids trying to make a big enough noise that that head would make if it could shout. This has got me thinking about letting McGee loose in the Hayward at London, where this sort of work would really translate well.

[snausages]

DFW is the name of a Mcgee book, maybe that will have some clues? THR which he also uses a lot is the name of one of his crews. So maybe DFW is another crew? Not sure.

[Francis]

Sept 16, 2009 20:35:44 GMT 1 @wizzy said:

Book.
donutchocula.blogspot.com/2008/09/dfw-new-book-by-graffiti-artist-barry.html

OK, so what does the DFW in the title of his book stand for then?

[afroken]

DFW = Down For Whatever

[volvic]

any excuse v

[afroken]

Just spreading the love H!

[Francis]

my mom says it stands for "Dallas Fort Worth"

[afroken]

Explained here....

[snausages]

Sept 16, 2009 20:58:52 GMT 1 afroken said:

DFW = Down For Whatever

Oh yeah, Duh. Nice collection!!!