Ryan McGinness – 2014 Calendar To-Do List Pad
The lightly gridded area on each page is a blank slate
for everything from things to-do and grocery lists to
capturing fleeting ideas with sketches and doodles.
The entire Calendar To-Do List Pad is printed in one color:
100% black on uncoated paper. The pad is bound along
the top and is packaged in a sturdy archival box with a
black ribbon attached to the bottom of the inside to assist
the user in removing the pad. The box lid fits under the
box base and can be used to store completed calendar
pages. At the end of the year, all the pages can be shelved
for archiving.
Each page is conveniently sized to be half of a standard
8.5 x 11 in. piece of paper (folded vertically). Therefore,
additional documents collected throughout the year can
also be archived in the storage box.
Featuring 365 unique drawings by Ryan McGinness.
368 Bound Pages in an 11.5 x 4.75 x 2 in. Box
ISBN: 978-1-58423-489-0
online available http://www.artwareeditions.com/McGinness_2014_Calendar_p/mcgr03.htm
ABOUT Ryan McGinness
Ryan McGinness was born in 1972 in Virginia Beach, VA
He lives and works in New York, NY
His work consists of an amalgam of icons and symbols. Drawing from his background in the design industry, Ryan McGinness’s work resolves the clinical graphic aesthetics of media as vast, contemplative fields of intimate meditation. It incorporates strong social commentary on iconography, language, and historical and contemporary symbolism. His graphic drawings and personal iconography are replicated, recontextualized, and materialized infinitely throughout his densely layered paintings.
Born and raised in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, McGinness moved on to study at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he worked at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant, which inevitably influenced his proclivity toward pop and graphic aestheticism. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings that use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments and fabricate the iconography of contemporary experience as spiritual and timeless.
McGinness’s work can be found in such art institutions as The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinatti, OH, and private and corporation collections including the Neuberger Berman Collection, New York, NY; Cobra to Contemporary/The Brown Family Collection, and the Charles Saatchi Collection, London.
