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Ryan McGinley Alba B(from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere), 2010
I want to switch it up. I don’t want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don’t want to be an artist who people look back at and say, “His early work was really great.”
- Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley Hannah Keamey, Freestyle Skier (Moguls), 2010
Ryan McGinley did an entire series of athletes from the Winter 2010 Olympics decked out in Rodarte clothing. See the rest here.
It’s really a world–you have to remember that. People look at photographs and believe them as truth and they always will. People look at my photographs and think this is real–this life exists. Even if they know that it doesn’t” ~ Ryan McGinley, photographer and subtle master of blending form and nature, nature and human form, without pretense..
“As a backlash to the constant word scroll of new media and its online counterparts, we’re likely to see both painting and multimedia work move in a text-free direction. The last two decades have used text — whether scrolling like Holzer or scrawled like Emin or collaged like Ligon — as a primary conceit. And as much as we like the aforementioned artists, we’re looking forward to the possibility of a little radio silence. After all, you know what they say about pictures (worth a thousand…).”
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Flavorwire’s 2010 and Beyond: Trends in Contemporary Art
Really? You are going to categorize the last 20 years as the time of text? This overgeneralization hurts my brain so much I can’t even think of where to begin. Text definitely has increased in popularity, but if you look back at the growth and increasing popularity of artists like Ryan McGinley and the auction prices of artists like Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Yue Menjin, I don’t feel that anything was overwhelmingly text to the point where we need “radio silence”. Maybe I’m biased. Maybe I just don’t like sweeping generalizations. Either way.
In case you (New Yorkers) don’t have enough to do, this seems like a pretty awesome group of artists. Just throwing it out there.
“One long wall of his apartment is lined with shelves on which he keeps his alphabetized collection of art books and binders cataloguing all of his work and Snow’s. “Because you never know what’s going to happen with Dash,” McGinley says and gets up on a ladder to pull down some of Snow’s old Polaroids.”
— From an article about Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen written in 2007.
