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Ryan McGinness, Painted Electric Guitar

Ryan McGinness, Painted Electric Dean ML Guitar, acrylic on Wood McGinness’s work consists of an amalgam of icons and symbols. It incorporates strong social commentary on iconography, language, and historical and contemporary symbolism. His graphic drawings and personal iconography are replicated, recontextualized, and materialized infinitely throughout his densely-layered paintings. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and The Saatchi Collection have recently acquired works by McGinness. In 1999, McGinness received critical acclaim for his first book Flatnessisgod, and since then eight additional books of his works have been published. Rizzoli published his most recent, book Installationview in the fall of 2005. Quint Contemporary Art is thrilled to launch the artist’s tenth book (also titled A Rich Fantasy Life) with a book signing at the gallery on May 19th. “In the past decade, McGinness has become an art star, thanks to his Warholian mix of pop iconography and silk-screening.” – New York Times “An unusual marriage of abstraction and representation.” – Art News “McGinness has mastered and integrated a seemingly infinite variety of visual languages, producing works that inhabit the ever-blurred border between high art and popular illustration.” – Art Forum This is a one-of-a-kind full playable and displayable Instrument of Art. Complete with electronics, pick-ups, strings and hardware installed at Dean USA. It is hand-painted or otherwise decorated by the artist who’s name is associated with the guitar. Proceeds from the auction of this guitar go to support LITTLE KIDS ROCK, one of the most exciting music education programs available to public schools in America. This guitar is one of over sixty pieces created for Six-String Masterpieces: The Dimebag Darrell Art Tribute.