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Ryan McGinley

Untitled (Morrissey 20)
Ryan McGinley
Untitled (Morrissey 7)
Ryan McGinley
Untitled (Morrissey 15)
Ryan McGinley
Holding Hands
Ryan McGinley
Blue Breakdown
Ryan McGinley
Jonas (Molten)
Ryan McGinley

A blend of ’60s hippy ideology and a Vogue fashion shoot (16 models, 4 assistants and 4,000 rolls of film), the heady adventure was tempered with an awareness of it all being only a brief moment of carefree abandon (after all, what is one summer in the span of a lifetime? An exhibition of the work, anticipating that perennial September question, was called I Know Where the Summer Goes). 

Holding Hands
Ryan McGinley
Untitled (Morrissey 15)
Ryan McGinley
Untitled (Morrissey 7)
Ryan McGinley
Tree #3
Ryan McGinley
McGinley allows his models freedom to follow their instincts. His lithe young companions leap and tumble, somersault and fall, splash in waterfalls, climb trees and gaze at the starlit vaults of heaven (well, perhaps lit by car headlamps). It is touching to all but the most cynical of observers (though the thought does nag that such carefree days are restricted to the moneyed and the mobile).
Untitled (Morrissey 20)
Ryan McGinley
Like a pied piper, Ryan McGinley leads his small tribe of exuberant, naked youth on a cross-country quest to connect with nature. Unlike Utopians, however, he has no wish to create a paradise (Everybody knows this is Nowhere is a title he gave to one body of his work): it’s already there for the taking – for those who have eyes to see and SAT NAV technology to get there (and can bring along fireworks, fog machines and iPods, too, for ambience).
Blue Breakdown
Ryan McGinley
Jonas (Molten)
Ryan McGinley
A blend of ’60s hippy ideology and a Vogue fashion shoot (16 models, 4 assistants and 4,000 rolls of film), the heady adventure was tempered with an awareness of it all being only a brief moment of carefree abandon (after all, what is one summer in the span of a lifetime? An exhibition of the work, anticipating that perennial September question, was called I Know Where the Summer Goes).

Text by William A Ewing
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