Looking for smaller works! Cheers!

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: ryan@modernart.net

think i'll head down there after work

pdf available??

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

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

I need photos!!!!

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

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

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.

Got a little signed memento too!

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

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!..

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