Ryan McGinness, whose emblematic imagery in a dizzying variety of media blurs distinctions between art and consumer culture, inaugurated Pace Prints' new Chelsea outpost this fall with Varied Editons. The installation surrounds visitors in a kaleidoscopic array of prints, multiples, one-off metal sculptures, reliefs fashioned from skateboard decks, and more.

On the gallery's longest wall, the artist's ornate iconography, seemingly originating from textile designs and old fashioned flocked wallpaper re-envisioned into a hyper-cool visual language, occupies a series of large square panels installed over a noisy pattern of baroque motifs on mylar. The overall effect is at once reminiscent of Whitman's Sampler candy boxes and 1980s wallpaper, at a supercharged scale in which the visual clatter becomes oddly quiet.

Ryan McGinness: Varied Editions installation at Pace Prints Chelsea, courtesy of the gallery.

The adjacent wall is home to a site-specific installation of stenciled circular elements that float like light-filled soap bubbles in space. The largest of these elements, done on vinyl adhered to the wall, are offered as prints, while those sprayed directly on will vanish when the show ends.

Over a dozen mandala-like circular screenprints are spaced out on the opposite wall. Two sculptures, like bouquets of metal cutouts, are set on low pedestals in the middle of the room. Their shapes and colors serve to visually realign the raucous elements around them into a psychedelic Fantasia. More colorful pieces, including skateboard decks and silk screened buttons pinned in militaristically neat circular formations onto stretched canvas, spill giddily across the next gallery.

Ryan McGinness: Varied Editions continues at Pace Prints, Chelsea through November 6^th and is sure to be one of the centerpieces of New York Fine Art Print Week. The annual event includes the International Fine Art Print Dealers Fair (IFAPD) at the Park Avenue Armory, and the Editions/Artists'Books Fair, at The Tunnel, in Chelsea. For the IFADP gala, McGinness produced a limited edition screenprint to benefit the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Prints and Illustrations. Print Week runs from Saturday, October 27^th through Sunday, November 4, and offers many studio visits, artist talks and other events in addition to the exhibits. Please check the websites for details.