Barry McGee / Dean Smith May 2 - June 1, 2023 Barry McGee Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to exhibit an installation of new work by Barry McGee. Barry McGee has received international acclaim for his work that bridges the gap between street art and fine art. With exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, the Venice Biennale, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UCLA's Armand Hammer Museum and San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and an upcoming exhibition at the Prada Foundation in Milan, McGee has secured a place for his unique brand of art. Using a stylized cartoon vocabulary of urban caricatures, graffiti and found objects ranging from discarded liquor bottles to delivery vans, the artist has assembled painted installations that are life-size emblems for the beauty and pathos of inner-city America. Barry McGee was born in San Francisco and received a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. For many years his preferred workplace was the streets, painting his trademark heads, his screw icon (his street name was "Twist") and graffiti on buildings or railroad cars. He celebrated a hobo image that combined both respect and pity for the down and out. What began as a cultish underground following expanded to include curators, gallerists and art critics. McGee's show at Gallery Paule Anglim will represent the artist's most recent creative efforts. Dean Smith Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to exhibit an installation of new drawings by Dean Smith. Dean Smith produces drawings that are abstract, yet make reference to organic growth and the representation of 3-dimensional space. They are delicate compositions made up of tiny lines, so fine and regimented in their perfect repetition, it seems impossible that they might be produced, tiny mark after tiny mark, by hand. Whether made from pencil strokes or fine touches of a pen, Dean Smith�s drawings breathe their own life, moving within an implied, nearly perspectival space. They live somewhere between geometry and botany, full of the delicacy and irregularity of cell reproduction and plant life. The artist�s process is meditative and disciplinary. The minute delicacy and fragility of the drawings� surface patterns are matched by the strength and magnitude of the task of their execution. The drawings address time and space and creating order without benefit of mathematics or a straight line. Dean Smith received a B.A. in Art and Art History in 1984; a M.A. in 1987, and a M.F.A. in painting in 1988, all from the University of California in Berkeley. This is his second exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim. In October of 2002 he will exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum, as a part of their Matrix program. Please join us for a reception for the artists at Gallery Paule Anglim on Thursday, May 2th from 5:30 to 7:30pm.