Using graphics that you might find anywhere from on a bathroom door to the instructions for putting together an IKEA furniture piece, McGinness composes paintings using screen printed prints from home-made stencils and home-made graphic images.
McGinness is not conservative with his paints, or his color schemes, creating a vibrant array of images, shapes and lines on the canvas, overlapping, interlocking and positively exploding with color. Although they may at first glance appear messy and disjointed, a closer look reveals the deliberation with which McGinness balances form, contrast and hue within each work.
His latest series focuses on the female nude. A provocative and intimate subject, McGinness reduces the powerful images to the bare minimum shapes- a conservative rendering of positive and negative space that leaves the viewer with some work of the imagination. He held a recent exhibit, "Women: The Blacklight Paintings", at Club Madonna in Miami, using live nude models painted to reflect the blacklight as part of the show. An innovate draw if I ever heard one, and a way to appeal to the less "artsy" crowd...
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