ART & PHOTOGRAPHY:

Ryan McGinley latest show entitled at New York City’s Team Gallery compels viewers to acknowledge the complexity of selfhood. Entitled “Mirror, Mirror,” the seminal photographer lent cameras and film to a diverse swathe of subjects to freely capture themselves nude in front of mirrors. The crowd-sourced undertaking saw numerous participants of ages 19 to 87. McGinley gathered and printed the resulting visuals, aiming to shed a light on how “the camera functions as an increasingly ubiquitous mediator in the presentation of contemporary identity.”

View select portraits above and head over to Team Gallery’s website to learn more. “Mirror, Mirror” is on view until September 29. In other art news, Lucy Sparrow recently launched her new Sparrow Mart installation featuring 31,000 felt groceries inside the Standard in downtown, Los Angeles.

Team Gallery
83 Grand St.
New York, NY 10013

Following his “FRIENDS” exhibit at Virgil Abloh’s EM PTY GALLERY, Lucien Smith returns with a new show at The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, NY. Entitled “Tulips!,” the multi-faceted artist’s latest series of paintings riff on the Dutch tulip craze in the 17th century. More precisely, the Netherlands experienced a major financial bubble in 1637 where tulips sold at insanely high prices — it was cheaper to buy a house at the time.

“The term “tulip mania” is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble when asset prices deviate from intrinsic values,” Smith quoted in an Instagram caption. Smith’s newfangled body of work may allude to modern day, socio-economic phenomena such as the fluctuating fad of bitcoin. Nevertheless, expect “Tulips!” to commence on August 11. Head over to The Fireplace Project’s website to learn more about the show.

In other art news, Shepard Fairey, D*Face, Jenny Holzer, and more acclaimed artists are participating in a new bi-coastal exhibition entitled “Visual Language.”

The Fireplace Project
851 Springs Fireplace Road
East Hampton, NY 11937