Barry McGee at Modern Art in London. (Photo by Practise.)
Hey Folks: Crazy day today. Digest will be back tomorrow. xox, C.
- In Pittsburgh: Barry McGee gives a talk at the Kresge Theatre at Carnegie Mellon University, as part of Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International, today, at 5p.m.
- In Philadelphia: Eric Doeringer, Bootlegs, Homages and Recreations, at the FUEL Collection, through Dec. 28.
- In NYC: Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks, through Dec. 23rd.
- In NYC: Keith Haring’s Ten Commandments at Deitch Projects, through Dec. 21.
- In Washington, D.C.: Women by Women, a juried exhibit of work by women photojournalists, at Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, opens Thursday.
- In Miami: Isaac Julien and George Osodi at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, through April 25.
- In Denver: Nathan Abels, Stills, at Rule Gallery, through Jan. 10.
- In L.A.: William Hundley at Kindsey Desforges, opens Saturday.
- In L.A.: Louise Bourgeois at MoCA, through Jan. 25.
- In L.A.: Ed Templeton and Matt Leines at Roberts & Tilton, in Culver City, through Dec. 13.
- In Basel: Balkanology: New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe at the Swiss Architecture Museum, through Dec. 28.
Having Fong at Ratio 3. Baby not included. (All photos by Gay Swan.)
Barry McGee serves up his signature urban flavors, topped with a few new sprinkles in a surprise show at Ratio 3 in San Francisco. (Bring your own funky glasses to view the infinitely precise 3-D hand drawings in more than one dimension.) The rest is classic McGee…or “Lydia Fong,” as his current alias goes. Color exercises crawl aggressively up three walls like deboned Rubik’s cubes. Contrast that with the sad faces, a gaggle of meticulously rendered masks, hair monsters, and framed napkin doodles. In between the human and the abstract, other urban detritus bubbles up: surfboards, cardboard, a decomposing orange with fruit fly, a baby in bubblegum pink. Oh wait, the baby’s mine.
But what’s outside the Ratio 3 Gallery is just as cool as what’s inside. It’s a one-way alley in McGee’s own Mission Street neighborhood. Next door a woman rescues half-wolf dogs that shelters won’t take. Down a ways, murals and motorcycles take up the sidewalk. All around, there’s weed smoke and freeway noise, Chinese dollar stores and taquerias amid super-eco-chic shops. Welcome to Barry’s world.
The show runs through October 18th.
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