BARRY MCGEE
John Kaldor introduces internationally acclaimed US street artist Barry McGee who will discuss his gallery practice and street art projects including his new Josh Twister mural. Barry's raw, energetic paintings can be seen in the John Kaldor Family Galleries and, from 23 September, in Tank Stream Way for the Urbanity (Re)Engaged project curated by Amanda Sharrad and Justine Topfer for Laneway Art 2011, part of Art & About Sydney.
Barry McGee's Kaldor Public Art Project #14 in 2004 transformed the old Metropolitan Meat Market in Melbourne into a cacophony of chequerboard shapes, urban characters and cast-offs, booming and colliding with sound and energy. A mural was painted over the National Gallery of Victoria's glass-fronted waterwall and acted as an alternative billboard for the event. Together the works evoked the sensory overload of contemporary consumer culture and paid homage to the outcasts of a disposable world.
Barry McGee's work is represented in the Foundation Cartier, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
When
WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2011 7:30PM
Where
CENTENARY AUDITORIUM
ART GALLERY OF
NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY
Admission
Free
See Also
Collaboration
We collaborated with Art & About to curate their Banner Gallery, selecting images for their street side flags in sites across Sydney city. Photographs by Louise Hawson showed 100 different faces.
23 September - 24 October 2010, Sites across Sydney as part of Art & About
IN CONVERSATION
John Baldessari, Iconic American conceptual artist in conversation with with Caroline Baum. Baldessari has changed the way we understand art, image and text over nearly five decades.
Sun 9 January 2011, 3pm at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Floor Talk
Celebrated UK artist Michael Landy, first known as one of the Young British Artists, to plan his new work for Project 24. Joins us in Sydney for a floor talk at AGNSW.
Wed 8 June 2011, 7.30pm at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Kaldor Public Art Projects is offering a unique internship opportunity within the Education and Public Programs department in our 50th anniversary year. Interested candidates from all disciplines, ages and abilities are welcome to apply.
When Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 2.5 kilometres of Sydney’s coastline
with one million square feet of fabric, not only was it the largest artwork at that time in the world, but it was the first time an international artist
had create a major public artwork in Australia.