{"id":29992,"date":"2013-03-31T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29992"},"modified":"2013-03-31T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:28:24","slug":"barry-mcgee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29992","title":{"rendered":"Barry McGee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/barry-mcgee\" target=\"_blank\">Barry McGee<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\" target=\"_blank\">art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><br \/>\nPublic Broadcasting Service<br \/>\nSeason 1 (2001), Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Barry McGee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lauded and much-respected cult figure in a bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_McGee\" target=\"_blank\">Barry McGee<\/a> was born in 1966 in California, where he continues to live and work. In 1991, he received a BFA in painting and printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. His drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray-paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal. McGee is also a graffiti artist, working on the streets of America\u2019s cities since the 1980s, where he is known by the tag name \u201cTwist.\u201d He views graffiti as a vital method of communication, one that keeps him in touch with a larger, more diverse audience than can be reached through the traditional spaces of a gallery or museum. His trademark icon, a male caricature with sagging eyes and a bemused expression, recalls the homeless people and transients who call the streets their home. McGee says, \u201cCompelling art, to me, is a name carved into a tree.\u201d His work has been shown at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and on streets and trains all over the United States. He and his daughter, Asha, live in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry McGee art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Public Broadcasting Service Season 1 (2001), Place About Barry McGee A lauded and much-respected cult figure in a bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, Barry McGee was born in 1966 in California, where he continues to live and work. In 1991, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8,20,842],"tags":[14243,14242,14237],"class_list":["post-29992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-art21","tag-art21-art-in-the-twenty-first-century","tag-barry-mcgee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}