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Barry (Twist) McGee (Born 1966) is active/lives in California. Barry McGee is known for Installation, graffiti art, low-life figure.
Barry McGee, also known as Twist, was born 1966 in San Francisco, where he currently resides (2004) and has attained cult hero status amongst a "bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers." Inspired by street life, graffiti, punk and hard-core music, and the culture of tramps, hobos, and transients, "McGee makes art that evokes traces of human presence."
A "New York Times" review of his summer 2004 exhibition at the Rose Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts had this description by Tessa De Carlo: "It's an expansive, noisy installation that includes a five-foot tower of 49 chattering television sets; kinetic sculptures; clusters of framed drawings and painted bottles featuring Mr. McGee's signature cartoons of grizzled, sad-eyed man; and a smoking Ford Econoline van dropped upside down in a dumpster outside the museum's front door".
His trademark icon, a caricatured male figure with sagging eyes and a bemused expression, recalls the ...
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Mary Heilmann
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Nate Lowman
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Matthew Barney
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Gary Hume
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Kelley Walker
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Kenny Scharf
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Barbara Kruger
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Gilbert & George
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Adam Pendleton
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Robert Smithson
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Philip Taaffe
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Margaret (Meta) Kilgallen
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David Salle
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KAWS
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