Ryan McGinness: Varied Editions

Inaugurating Pace Prints' new Chelsea gallery tomorrow, Ryan McGinness' "Varied Editions," features a myriad of his latest work, as the title implies. (Click flyer below for detail.) The show includes editions of silkscreens on paper, a series of monoprints, three-dimensional multiples created using skateboards, porcelain-baked enamel on steel panels, and metal sculptures (pictured above: an unpainted version), which are already causing a buzz. The range …

Laura Letinsky: To Say It Isn’t So

There will always be a big place in my heart for beautiful pictures of ugly things, and Laura Letinsky's discarded Styrofoam cups, paper napkins, plastic cutlery, crushed cans, and paper bags couldn't be prettier. Carefully composed with soft colors and wonderful lighting, Letinsky creates the timeless beauty of the classical still life with the chaotic banality of contemporary consumer culture. "17th-century Northern European painting set …

Ron Mueck: In Bed

The London-based hyper-realist sculptor Ron Mueck's recent intriguing work, "In Bed", is hard to resist. Commentary on scale in architecture is common in a spatial sense, with much of our education revolving around it. Yet as humans, the scale between ourselves seems to be ever increasing. In our own office there is a 50 cm difference in height between the tallest and shortest, a major …