June 27 - September 27, 2004 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Ryan McGinley June 27 - September 27, 2004 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents a selection of approximately twenty recent color photographs by Ryan McGinley, most never-before exhibited or reproduced. This exhibition of new photographs signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which the artist is well known. While he is best known for capturing intimate and everyday images of his extended family of friends (including skateboarders, graffiti artists, and lovers) in and around the Lower East Side, McGinley has been working almost exclusively in natural settings outside of New York City over the past nine months. For the first time, he has set up situations specifically to be photographed, but he also creates the conditions in which his subjects can lose themselves in the moment- as when a group of young people climb naked into the upper branches of a tree or float underwater at night. In these new pictures, McGinley has embraced nature as a site of freedom, and he searches for and captures a sense of buoyancy and release. Also on view is a selection of new portraits in which his subjects are bathed in a luminous glow or are captured in deep silhouette. Organized by PS1 Curatorial Advisor Bob Nickas, the exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition book, with an essay by the curator.
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Bruce LaBruce: When Asia Argento walks down the street in Milan ...
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Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St. Chicago
Michigan Avenue Galleries: 5/17/03 - 7/13/03
Tim Doud: New Portraits Tim Doud's paintings were last seen at the Chicago Cultural Center in 1996, as part of a three-person exhibition, before he relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y. Doud has continued to pursue figurative painting from live models, who mostly are from the world of the performing arts themselves. His life-sized figures and smaller portraits appear to be realistic, but are in fact carefully composed works that do not aspire in Realism, per se. Instead they introduce a signature psychological portraiture that is prevalent in today's pluralistic art scene. This is Doud's first solo exhibit in Chicago and will present approximately 12 to 15 new pieces. Organized by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
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First Exposure
The Kids Are Alright: Photographs by Ryan McGinley
on view February 1 – May 18, 2003
Ryan McGinley’s (b. 1977) large-scale color photographs of his friends and lovers demonstrate an obsessive fascination for recording every activity, no matter how intimate or seemingly insignificant. His subjects—most in their twenties—form part of the youth culture of New York’s Lower East Side. Working in the tradition of artists who focus the camera on their own generation, McGinley adds new energy to the genre with these images that are charged with spontaneity, candor, and exuberance. First Exposure is a series of exhibitions in which photographic work by a young artist will be given its first museum exposure at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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UNDERDOGMA
... Feel Felt Felt ... 
NIELS VAN EIJK & MIRIAM VAN DER LUBBE - CLAUDY JONGSTRA
dal 14 al 18 aprile 2004 dalle 10.00 alle 20.00
lunedi 19 aprile 2004 dalle 10.00 alle 17.00
from April 14th to 18th 2004 h.10.00am - 8.00pm
Monday April 19th 2004 h.10.00am - 5.00pm
MCM DESIGN Studio - via Tortona, 4 - 20144 Milano - Italia
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