Synopses & Reviews
A Rich Fantasy Life explodes with sharp colorful new paintings by Ryan McGinness, an artist who has mastered and integrated a seemingly infinite variety of visual languages, producing works that inhabit the ever-blurred border between high art and popular illustration, according to Artforum. This 144-page hardback concentrates on the artist's lush paintings of layered iconic worlds. It also features numerous photos of the artist's installations as well as insightful sketches that reveal the developmental process behind his graphic drawings. Born in 1972 and educated at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Ryan McGinness is represented in New York by Deitch Projects, and on the west coast by Quint in La Jolla. He is the author of 10 books, including Flatnessisgod, and his work has been acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and London's Saatchi Collection. His next museum show will be at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.
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Text by Dominique Nahas, Pedro Alonzo, Jonathan Neil.
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Ryan McGinness is an internationally exhibited artist whose skate-punk aesthetic incorporates carefully rendered personal iconography, contemporary semiotics, and layered neo-baroque compositions. His works are in multiple mediums and his signature symbols and visual code have influenced an entire generation of graphic designers. Ryan McGinness Works. is a collection of the artists most recent pieces, including installations, prints, sculpture, and paintings. Each body of work is illustrated and discussed in lavish detail, and the process behind each project is told through the use of sketches, diagrams, details, and photographs.
About the Author
Ryan McGinness fuses art and design by incorporating historical, contemporary, and fantasy-inspired graphic vocabularies in his artworks. He currently lives and works in New York City, where he is represented by Deitch Projects. In 2005, Rizzoli published his Installationview. Artist and writer Peter Halley is currently director of graduate studies in painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art. David Byrnes creative legacy spans music, performance, visual art, film, opera, books, and photography. Jonathan T.D. Neil is executive editor at The Drawing Center in New York. Tom Greenwood heads BaseWords, and contributes writings to various publications such as Tokion, Creator Studio, and Creativity. Greg Lindquist is a New York painter who also writes about art.