Barry McGee
23 Jan
Saw this Barry Mcgee/Twist photo installation in the SFMOMA 75th Anniversary show today: (that’s not me, don’t get your Asian girls confused…)
SFMOMA has a set of photos of the installation of the work, and one of my favorite parts – the drawings of the strange heads:
There’s also an interview with the director of conservation about McGee’s installations in their blog.
The wall text referred to the “Mission School,” referring apparently to the gritty, graf-like, Hamburger Eyes and zine aesthetic of some punks and whonot in the city. I wonder who coined the term and how the artists feel about it.
Penelope Umbrico’s Suns From Flickr was in the next room, and I’m glad I got a chance to see it in person. A pretty good day at the MOMA… the contemporary floors were my favorite as usual – I felt like going a little nuts after staring at so many small dark black and white photos from the past. Not that all work should be large and in color, but it just feels so dead to live in the past so much.
UPDATE: According to Wikipedia, the “Mission School” was coined in 2002 in a Bay Guardian article.
