Ryan McGinley Studio Visit

With the new solo show ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’ from artist Ryan McGinley about to open in New York this week at Team Gallery, I am not surprised to have found this studio visit leading up with hype. Here we get a look at where the photographer has created his new series of portrait works, for which he refined himself to only create within his studio walls. An ‘L’ shaped studio located in Lower East Side which used to be shared with artist Dan Colen but now is used for the hangings of his new works.

“Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” opens Thursday March 18th at Team Gallery in Soho NY which has been described as a series of back and white portraits revealing the delicacy and strength of our youth today. Growing up with five brothers and two sisters, Ryan McGinley may have a sort of nostalgic appreciation towards the growing youth. Working a lot with movement and expression or ‘life’ with his models, Ryan McGinley has a particular technique for getting his youth to relax and play up to him; “Ryan relied on a “hype girl” who talked to the subject, asking him or her to sing a favorite song, jump on a mini-trampoline, or try acting exercises while he shot them on his digital camera. That kind of engagement is important to the artist. “I can work with shyness,” he says, “but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It’s really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.”

See images below of inside Ryan McGinley’s studio and read here for the article surrounding the visit.