'Legit' Street Artist Barry McGee on Display in Berlin
Artist Barry McGee’s name may not be familiar but his drip designs and iconic male figures with sagging eyes are universally recognizable. McGee, a native Californian, began as a street artist known by the tag name Twist in the 1980s. But by the 90s, he had branched out and began creating paintings, drawings, and mixed-media installations that include empty liquor bottles, tagged signs, scrap wood, and metal.
Since then, McGee has become the most respected street artist turned legit artist (sorry, Shep) in the country and has had his work displayed in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Despite his success, McGee is still known to tag a few buildings now and then because he feels Graffiti keeps him in touch with a larger, more diverse audience.
Next week, a new exhibit of McGee’s work (along with fellow artists
Ed Templeton and Raymond Pettibon) opens at the Circleculture Gallery in Berlin. The exhibit is meant to focus on the common themes amongst the artists which curator Aaron Rose considers to be “an overriding sense of concern for and representation of the downtrodden, the outsider, the anti-hero.”
"McGee. Templeton. Pettibon." opens April 9th and runs through May 30th. Circleculture Gallery, located at GIPSSTR. 11 is open Tuesday to Saturday from 2 PM to 6 PM.
Related Stories:
· Circleculture Gallery [Official Site]
· Barry McGee [Gallery Paul Anglim]
· Street Art Coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: PBS]
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