Ryan McGinness comes to Portland tomorrow for a PICA talk about his new exhibition on view at Deitch Projects and his recently released book installationview. In case you're somehow in the dark, McGinness has been garnering international acclaim over the past five years or so for his stylized baroque compositions crafted from an amalgam of inconographic symbols. "His graphic drawings and personal iconography are replicated, recontextualized, and materialized infinitely throughout his densely layered paintings and installations." His work is notable not just for its coneceptual thematics of language and symbolism but for its innovative marriage of art and design lexicons. McGinness has exhibited in traveling museum exhibition, Beautiful Losers and at the Greater New York exhibition at P.S. 1/MoMA. The talk will be followed by a book signing of installationview, which was released this month by Rizolli.
Thursday, October 27th • 7pm
PICA • 224 NW 13th Ave • Tel. 503.242.1419
Members $8 • General $10 • Tickets available at the door