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Ryan McGinness, Surface & Symbol,
2008
Learn more about the artist and his work:
iCI is please to announcement the publication of a new limited edition
artwork by Ryan McGinness. Working closely with
Winsor Fireform in Tumwater, WA, this internationally recognized artist
has created a richly colored, wall-mounted work titled Surface & Symbol.
Income from the sale of this edition will directly benefit iCI’s innovative traveling exhibition and publication program, which brings contemporary art to a wide range of museums, giving diverse audiences in the United States and abroad the opportunity to experience new art.
If you have any questions, or for pricing and availability, please contact Kristin Nelson at 212.254.8200 x 25 or nelson@ici-exhibitions.org.
Surface & Symbol, 2008
Porcelain-baked enamel on steel
24 in. diameter x 1.25 in.
Edition of 10 with 2 artist’s proofs
Signed and numbered
Hanging cleat return on back
$8,500 USD
McGinness’ title, “Surface & Symbol,” comes from a quote by Oscar Wilde:
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
The only excuse for making a useless things is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Delivery charges are the responsibility of the purchaser, although iCI can assist you in making delivery arrangements.
About Ryan McGinness
Ryan McGinness is an American artist living and working in New York
City. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia,
and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he interned at the Andy
Warhol Museum. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic
drawings that use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos,
and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures,
and environments. He is represented by Deitch Projects and Pace Prints
in New York and has shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions at
museums and galleries here and abroad.
McGinness will have a solo exhibition later this year at the Cincinnati Art Museum. His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including, most recently, USA Today, the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England; Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England; Since 2000: Printmaking Now at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Graphic Content, the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; and the iCI traveling exhibition Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art, (2004-2007).