Sam McKinniss: Costume Drama

Published in conjunction with the artist’s show held at the Michael Ovitz collection in Los Angeles, 2021.

Costume Drama mixes full bleed imagery, down to the gutters in occasional spreads, with eye tweaking white space and minimized imagery on others. Expertly designed by Sean Manchee and printed by Dusty Hollensteiner at Publicide.

Featuring 21 works of art, installation views, artist statement and a conversation between McKinniss and Michael Ovitz.

From the publisher:

Painter Sam McKinniss sources his works from images of recent pop cultural phenomena he finds using Google Image Search, such as the much celebrated and widely discussed portrait of Prince, painted and exhibited in New York immediately following the beloved pop star’s unti-mely death. He is inspired by themes or narratives focu-sing on romance or tragedy, beauty, perversion, innocence and its destruction. Most often his paintings are portraits of celebrities such as movie stars and musicians, while at other times he finds landscapes or animals as suitable subject matter.

Almine Rech, 2021
Softcover, 6″ x 8.5″
96 pages