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“Life of Ryan” by AnnaMaria Stephens featured in Riviera Magazine, July/Aug, 2011

Ben — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:09:48 +0000

Nudie playing cards and pole-twisting dancers doused in blacklight paint? It’s all in a night’s work for New York artist Ryan McGinness. The international art darling just wrapped up an action-packed month in Los Angeles, where he painted two major murals and pimped his impressive body of work at seven locations—including a pop-up strip club at [...]

The Graphic Mind of Ryan McGinness by Katherine Clarke, The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2011

Ben — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:20:21 +0000

“I believe the search is more important than the Holy Grail,” says New York–based artist Ryan McGinness, whose vivid paintings and works on paper are collected by major institutions, like the Museum of Modern Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. McGinness is best known for his hypercolor silkscreen canvases that break down symbols taken from [...]

“For Ryan McGinness, art is one big party” by Jori Finkel Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2011

Ben — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:31:30 +0000

As various species of artists go, Ryan McGinness seems happy playing the party animal. In New York not so long ago he threw a party in his studio every Friday night for 50 weeks in a row. (“50 parties. 50 themes. 50 weeks” his tag line went, with themes ranging from “search party” to “prom.”) In [...]

QUINT: Three Decades of Contemporary Art

Ben — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:03:24 +0000