Barry McGee Exhibition
at Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
This event has ended - (2007-06-02 - 2007-09-30)
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Barry McGee’s graffiti opposite the Watari-um
The San Francisco-based graffiti artist Barry McGee is having a solo exhibition at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Harajuku. Across the road, he has revamped the streetscape, covering an empty shop with his trademark icons and graphics.
Ashley Rawlings. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he did his BA in Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he was a research student in the history of Japanese postwar art at Sophia University, and worked as a freelance editor, writer and translator. In addition to being editor of TABlog from 2006 to 2008, he contributed regularly to online and printed publications such as the Japan Times, ART iT.jp, Saatchi Online, ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific and Artforum.com. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, a 272-page guide to the Tokyo art world published by Chin Music Press in 2008. In 2009 he moved to New York, where he works as features editor of ArtAsiaPacific. » See other writings
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roywilson
2008-06-04
Wow, that’s some pretty amazing artwork. I recently found out about Mr. McGee’s work and I’ve been looking for more info and pictures of his work. Anyway, I found this interview with Barry Mcgee that is pretty interesting.
roywilson
2008-06-04
woops, got cut off there. anyway, it’s a pretty good interview and worth checking out, tells about his life and his recent exhibit in the Carnegie.