Barry McGee

San Francisco-based artist Barry McGee developed an early and impassioned following for his unsanctioned work on the streets of San Francisco under tags such as "Twist," "Ray Fong," and "Lydia Fong." With dynamic images that use the visual chaos of the street to address urban class tension and are inspired by a variety of sources such as hobo art, sign painting, graffiti comics, and Beat literature, McGee now has an international exhibition record that includes shows at Deitch Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Foundation Cartier in Paris, and Fondazione Prada in Milan. McGee's work was a natural for the highly acclaimed exhibition Art In the Street at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Berkley Art Museum has recently organized the artist's first major survey exhibition which travels to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and is accompanied by a 400-page catalogue.

 With his work featured in the museum's exhibition FOCUS: Barry McGee, the artist is in conversation with the Modern's curator Andrea Karnes for this Tuesday Evenings presentation.

Tuesday Evenings