Drawing inspiration from iconic figures and imagery from popular media, press photos, and other artworks, Sam McKinniss transforms familiar images into striking original works. By reinterpreting snapshots of celebrities and working with images with an inbuilt cultural power, McKinniss infuses them with a new layer of depth and significance making them more powerful, expressive, and ambiguous. His portraits are not mere copies but rather captured moments of collective memory, heightened with emotion and drama. Transitioning from painting friends to internet-sourced imagery, McKinniss taps into emotional wells sublimated within the drama of entertainment, theater, pageantry, presentation, fashion, and glamour in his work. Investing recognizable faces with emotion, he invites viewers to reflect on their own relationship with these cultural icons and the broader societal forces that shape them. Oscillating between being a fan and an idol, McKinniss illustrates complex roles and identities existing in his art. In this volume, the artist s first monograph, writers Natasha Stagg, Jarrett Earnest, and Drew Sawyer identify key works and exhibitions and detail McKinniss s artistic trajectory.
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"Sam McKinniss's debut monograph is a dazzling tribute to pop culture's most iconic figures. With lush, color-saturated paintings, he reimagines familiar images through vibrant painting. Iconic figures such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, and more inspire the featured works, infused with drama, nostalgia, and ambiguity. Blurring the line between celebrity culture and artistry, the striking Rizzoli volume Same McKinniss captures the depth of fame and fortune in a new light." - CURATED TEXAN
"The American figurative painter Sam McKinniss takes images from popular culture and reinterprets them in lush, hyper-saturated oil paintings imbued with a queer sensibility. He's painted Lil Nas X in his pink cowboy suit, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and a self-portrait in the style of a J.Crew advert. But, as his debut monograph from Rizzoli demonstrates, he is much more than a painter of pop culture, and is equally drawn to subjects from the natural world: cows, flowers, which he paints in the style of 19th-century French painter Henri Fantin-Latour, and swans." - FINANCIAL TIMES
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Gewebe-Einband
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Höhe: 285 mm
Breite: 239 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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978-0-8478-4062-5 (9780847840625)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sam McKinniss (b. 1985) works and lives in Brooklyn, New York and Kent, Connecticut. His figurative paintings are most often sourced from popular culture, the entertainment industry, sports, and the internet. His work is in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. McKinniss lives and works in New York and Kent, Connecticut.
