Somewhere between an artist’s book and a catalogue, Installationview provides insight into the works and process of artist Ryan McGinness. The book is a dense collection of new paintings, works on paper, installations, sketches and notes, inspiration snapshots, and pieces made specifically for its pages. “McGinness has developed an expansive vocabulary of eccentric, vaguely familiar symbols drawn from art historical and modern vernacular sources.”—the New York Times “An unusual marriage of abstraction and representation”—Art News “For those inclined to debate the line that separates graphic design from fine art, there is no better case study than Ryan McGinness.”—Metropolis “McGinness is on image overload.”—the Boston Globe “The 33-year-old’s recent paintings combine colorful icons drawn from mythology, pop culture, and nature”—Departures

Installationview

Arts & Photography

McGinness, Ryan

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

With this book artist Ryan McGinness has made a unique one-of-a-kind visual portrait of the comedian Carrot Top and taken contemporary portraiture into a new realm. This is a definitive new form of art book, portrait, and biography; an outrageous collaboration between a contemporary artist and a celebrity performer.

Carrot Top

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Trela

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.

Ryan Mcginness: A Rich Fantasy Life

Individual Artists

Quint Contemporary Art

Born in Alabama in 1968, James Marshall was a highly imaginative and introspective child blessed with a pronounced sense of confusion. Unable to read, he quickly took to television, absorbing endless hours of cartoons and science fiction programming, and refusing to play with other children in the neighborhood. By age five, Marshall was a TV addict unhappy with the prospect of attending kindergarten. Afraid of interacting with other children, the name Dalek—borrowed from his favorite British science fiction program, Dr. Who—became a shield behind which to hide.  It’s hard to say how Dalek got to where he is today. He really doesn’t like to talk about it. So what’s left? What are Space Monkeys? Where are they from? Are they born alive, or are they incubated in egg-like vessels? Why do they smirk at us as like they know something we don’t? Why do they always march to the left? Is there a mother ship calling? Are their hearts situated on the left side of their bodies like ours? We can only guess. Even when they are suffering from what would be moments of human weakness—like a hole in the head or a recently amputated limb—they continue to smile and stare, assuring their control of the moment. They stare at us with one large orb of an eye, unintimidated and steadfast in their mission. The eye of the Space Monkey can threaten like a cocked and steadied gun, it can insult you without warning, or invite you into a happy, carefree world. In Sonic Order of Happiness, Dalek’s second monograph, we are once again whisked far, far away, to a place where Space Monkeys reign.

Sonic Order of Happiness

Dalek

powerHouse Books

Sponsorship is a Ryan McGinness book documenting and expanding upon the ideas and images to arise from an exhibition staged at Shepard Fairey's BLK/MKRT Gallery is Los Angeles in 2003. Sponsorship forwards an intense dialog amongst many of the artists central to the corporate sponsorship debate through a series of 19 interviews. Response to McGinness' probing questions regarding accepting corporate backing for artistc endeavors and dealing with companies great and smalll run the gamut. Sponsorship features interviews with Futura, Barry McGee (Twist), Kaws, Romon Yang (Ro-Starr), Dalek, David Ellis (Skwerm), Brendan Fowler (Barr), Todd James (Reas), Christian Strike and essays by Carlo McCormick, Jacqui Millar, Steve Powers, Shepard Fairey, Adam Glickman and Rob Walker.

Sponsorship the Fine Art of Corporate Sponsorship: The Corporate Sponsorship of Fine Art

Business & Money

Gingko Press

The latest limited edition from Ryan McGinness - No Sin/No Future follows the trajectory of the artist's book Project Rainbow (2003, Gingko Press). A collection of snapshots, sketches, and scans, all extracted with a discerning eye from the artist's studio archives. Sketchbook notes collide with paintings-in-progress and combine with vectors and bitmaps to create a dense site-specific visual concoction that provides unprecedented insight into how this artist's mind works and the mental processes that deliver his unique style. The work of Ryan McGinness has exercised great influence in graphic design and visual art circles, and is collected by venerable institutions around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The edition is limited to 2500 copies.

No Sin/No Future

Reference

This is a curated collection of pages out of Ryan McGinness's sketchbooks from the past decade.

Sketchbook Selections 2000-2012

An avowed sketcher, Ryan McGinness offers a new composition style journal with a twist. His What is the Language of Thought journal begs for high-minded concept work-ups as well as loose, liminal wanderings of the pen. Get to work on your next study for a painting, ad campaign, logo or novel - just get started! Gridded with a nice card stock cover and singer sewn spine.

Ryan McGinness Sketchbook: What Is the Language of Thought?

Art. FLATNESSISGOD presents a thorough exploration of the basic practiceof seeing and consuming the second dimention. The pages contain paintings, basic design studies, image and type experiments, logo developments, layouts, graffiti converted into corporate logos, art haiku, and mistranslated text from Japanese candy. Ryan McGuinness is an artist who has exhibited his work internationally and has been responsible for numerous events and pranks. His work makes strong social commentary on iconography, language, and historical and contemporary symbolism. His use of visual codes and signifiers subverts the very systems in which he operates. He has designed music packaging, posters, magazine spreads, and corporate identities for some of today's major bands, publications, and organizations.

flatnessisgod

Soft Skull Pr

Pieceofmind is published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies on the occasion of the solo exhibition, Ryan McGinness: pieceofmind, at Colette in Paris, France.  In this unique artist's book, McGinness continues to expertly experiment with the iconographic imagery for which he has become known. The pages contain work in gold and black ink created specifically for the book.

pieceofmind

Colette

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