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..
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.
