Ryan McGinley continues to build on an ethereal body of work that has come to outweigh the gritty urban portraiture with which he rose to prominence with in the early 2000s.
Paul (Frederic), 2015
c-print. 16 x 24 inches
edition of three
Showing in a city that doesn’t enjoy much of a seasonal shift, Fall typifies the most handsome of seasons — the melancholic colours of dying leaves sometimes the backdrop, sometimes the hero, in a series of photographs where McGinley’s customary nudes interact upstate New York’s monumental landscape.
Team (gallery, inc.)‘s Venice Beach gallery is the setting, their New York branch showing an accompanying collection, Winter (which was surely tougher on the artist’s models) — but, whatever the season, it is McGinley’s rising preoccupation with the body as a form that is evident; his ability to coalesce people and nature is as deft as the great painters of yesteryear, the emotion and pensiveness in each image a study in wistful beauty.
Red Maple Bust, 2015
c-print. 60 x 90 inches
edition of three
Sugar, 2015
c-print. 48 x 72 inches
edition of three
Big Leaf Maple, 2015
c-print. 30 x 45 inches
edition of three
Deep Well, 2015
c-print. 40 x 60 inches
edition of three
Redweed, 2015
c-print. 30 x 45 inches
edition of three
Dogbane (Split), 2015
c-print. 30 x 45 inches
edition of three
