Culture, Men’s Fashion
By Sandra Ballentine September 4, 2012
Photograph by Adrian Gaut. Styled by Akari Endo-Gaut.
The San Francisco-based artist’s urban-inspired paintings and installations may pack a serious visual wallop, but his family’s cozy Colonial Revival-style house, in the city’s Mission district, is completely chill. Artworks by friends and treasures culled from vintage stores and antique markets around the world stand in for formal décor. “Everything in the house is connected to us personally,” McGee says. As much can be said of his no-frills fashion sense. “Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.” Some things, however, he’d sooner let go of. Asked about his current midcareer retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum, he says, “It’s very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I’ve already experienced and moved forward from. It’s like seeing an old girlfriend — awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.” More…
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