McGee is recognized as one of the most influential sub-cultural artists who combines not only art from West Coast surfers, graffiti artists, and skaters but uses his art as a vital method of communication and this assured a grand, diverse audience. McGee describes the urban life as a pessimistic view of frustrations, over stimulations, keeping a level head in a continual notion of advertising, and addictions.McGee influences my own abilities in how to find and use the world around to gain accessto great inspirations toward creating art pieces.
-Your friend D
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The Barry McGee exhibit at RedCat was a lot of fun. I thought it was strange to take the idea of street tagging and reproduce that in a gallery setting. The crashed car instillation was interesting in that it looked very real while also seeming very fake. The same goes for the 3 taggers stacked on top of each other. The experience was kind of like being in a bad dream, but also in a fun house. The noises and colors made everything seem somewhat surreal. In addition to that, the constant motion of the wood sculpted figures pretending to tag walls was kind of insane. My favorite thing was the loft built in one of the corners, that had a ladder for viewers to climb. For those who do, they are presented with another head sculpted from wood that keeps pounding against the wall over and over. The whole thing was great, I have no complaints.
-Drue-Ann
. Like Diego Rivera, he is able to create large scale paintings from floor to ceiling, with great skill and detail. McGee even finds artistic expression in the most simplest of things! “Compelling art to me is a name carved into a tree,” says McGee. As an art student, and aspiring artist, I feel that Barry McGee’s work is compelling, relatable, fun, and inspirational. It is wonderful to see that art can be transformed out of anything and everything, including liquor bottles, cans, and junkyard cars. Artist like McGee give new upcoming artist inspiration and a sense of freedom to be as creative and imaginative with great height and fascination. Like artists in the age of cubism and surrealism, Barry McGee sets no boundaries to what is considered great art!
-Rebecca Lopez
BARRY MCGEE
Barry McGee has the ability to re-create his adolescence of defacing public property and put it on for all to see and commend. By creating sculptures of himself and his friends tagging on gallery walls he has taken the “street art” aspect of his work and raised it to the level of “fine art”. McGee displays painted bottles, empty spray cans and a car accident, all aspects of everyday life that are not considered “worthy” enough to display at an art gallery. The whole exhibit carried a “fuck you” mentality that is directly aimed against the establishment. Who is anyone to tell an artist what is acceptable art? I dare someone to tell Mr. McGee that his work belongs in alleyways or underneath bridges! His work is inspirational in that it allows for complete creative freedom and frugalness when it comes to buying art supplies.
~ Ericka Gómez
Mechanical sound and graffiti art was the first thing I saw when I arrived at RedCat. The artist Barry McGee made a sculpture of 3 men stacking on each other painting graffiti art, so realistic I thought they were real people when I first glanced at it.
Compare to what we have seen that day, I have to say it is not one of the interesting art works I saw that day.
~Carol Huang~
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