Installed | Barry McGee at ICA/Boston

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Barry McGee

at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, West Gallery

April 16 – September 2, 2013

Barry Mcgee at ICA/Boston. Apr. 16-Sept. 2, 2013. Image courtesy Gregory Eltringham

Barry Mcgee at ICA/Boston. Apr. 16-Sept. 2, 2013. Image courtesy Gregory Eltringham

Barry Mcgee at ICA/Boston. Apr. 16-Sept. 2, 2013. Image courtesy Gregory Eltringham

Barry Mcgee at ICA/Boston. Apr. 16-Sept. 2, 2013. Image courtesy Gregory Eltringham

Barry Mcgee at ICA/Boston. Apr. 16-Sept. 2, 2013. Image courtesy Gregory Eltringham

Barry Mcgee at ICA/Boston. Apr. 16-Sept. 2, 2013. Image courtesy Gregory Eltringham

Barry Mcgee at ICA/Boston. Apr. 16-Sept. 2, 2013. Image courtesy Gregory Eltringham

From ICA exhibition page: ‘McGee’s gallery-based art explores the contradiction central to his daily life—reconciling graffiti with an artistic practice—but also addresses the question that the avant-garde has historically asked: How might art and life be reconciled? At once humorous, political, and difficult (especially for those who see private property as an inalienable right), his art underscores the complexities of life in early twenty-first-century America, a country in the midst of wars, a financial crisis, unemployment, class stratification, and the ever-cheerful exhortation to keep consuming.’

Gregory Eltringham (b. Hartford, Connecticut, resides in Savannah, Georgia) is currently Professor of Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He travels extensively during the year, conducting research for his studio and teaching practice, and tours in support of his sound-based collaborative projects The Tenderloin Trio and The Tramp Stamps. Eltringham is the artistic director and associate editor of artcore journal.