Barry McGee, Untitled, 2024, acrylic, gouache and aerosol on panel in artist frame, 9 x 12 inches, 23 x 30 cm
Barry McGee, Untitled, 2024, acrylic, gouache and aerosol on panel in artist frame, 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 24 x 32 cm.
The Hole is pleased to present Cherry Picking, an underground show (literally) by Barry McGee in our Tribeca basement. Comprised of painting, sculpture and collected artworks and errata by friends and strangers (let’s call it “community organizing”) the show is short and full of surprises: tagged NO PARKING signs, artworks by Margaret Kilgalen, Brian Chippendale, Todd James, Andres Jeffrey Wright or WOMBAT mix with fruit stand signage or a mosaic portrait of Luigi Mangione.
Our goal at The Hole is to make art magic happen whenever the opportunity arises. Without fussing too much over traditional timelines and long-lead marketing, we see a hole and we run through it. A good plot, very good friends, can’t lose. I would surmise that the philosophy that runs through McGee’s practice from tagging through to traveling museum retrospectives is a similar opportunism and enthusiasm for unstructured mayhem.
Whenever we get lulled to sleep with the conventions of the gallery world and the prosaic expectations of the market we thank people like Barry for kicking over the table and waking us up to why we do this in the first place.
Barry McGee (b. 1966, San Francisco) attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 90s, while completing his MFA he picked printmaking at a local letterpress shop. An internationally-acclaimed artist, McGee has had solo exhibitions at museums and institutions including Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California (just to name a few). In addition to galleries and museums, his impact on the graffiti scene and street art movement can not be overlooked, Barry's work can be seen "in the wild" on unsuspecting streets and trains all over the world.
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Untitled, 2024, acrylic, gouache and aerosol on panel in artist frame, framed: 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 24 x 32 cm.
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Untitled, 2024, acrylic, gouache and aerosol on paper in artist’s frame, framed: 11.5 x 9.5 inches, 29 x 24 cm
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