Barry McGee talks about his connection to graffiti culture and in particular, the act of throwing up a tag, in this insightful video piece by Art 21. The video was filmed in 2012 to coincide with the artist’s retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). McGee, who became interested in tagging
…Last year, Vanity Fair and Cadillac got together to commission artists Shepard Fairey, Retna, and Kenny Scharf to create three murals for the West Hollywood Public Library in Los Angeles. The works were then captured by David LaChapelle in an eight-page custom portfolio for Vanity Fair. The two brands follow up their editorial and promotional concept entitled
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Posted September 27, 2012
Contemporary Californian artist Barry McGee made a return to the PRISM gallery in Los Angeles over the weekend with a solo exhibition of new works. In the artist’s second showing at the gallery (the first being 2009′s MindTheGap), McGee integrates his strong visual language, with its “striking geometric compositions, color fields and recurring characters”, into a site-responsive
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