Ryan McGinley, Sam (Ground Zero)
Summer of Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley has work in two group exhibitions this summer.
Twenty Summers is presenting an exhibit at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA. The photographer Quil Lemons has gathered work by queer luminaries including Ocean Vuong, Ryan McGinley, Lyle Ashton Harris, and the late Félix González-Torres. Both a provocation and celebration, “American Faggot Party” showcases work that revels in life after the AIDS epidemic.
Presented by Twenty Summers at The Schoolhouse Gallery
494 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA
June 27–September 28, 2025
During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum’s Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of “weirdos and outcasts” who introduced him to a group of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. In that pre-digital age, Strobeck and his friends pored over coveted VHS skate tapes and magazines, recognizing themselves in images from like-minded communities all over the world. Skateboarding offered them a sense of identity and belonging unlike anything else at the time.
Fast forward thirty years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. For DEAD END., Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson’s history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise.
Strobeck’s exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck’s vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness. In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture’s influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today’s TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.
Artists in the show include Ari Marcopoulos, Dash Snow, Dave Schubert, EARSNOT IRAK, Jonathan Cannon, Julien Stranger, Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, Ryan McGinley, Spike Jonze, Tobin Yelland, & William Strobeck.
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison Street, Syracuse, NY, USA 13202
June 07 - August 31, 2025
Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art maintains the largest inventory of Ryan’s early work.
Please contact us at phh@phhfineart.com with any inquiries.
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