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[BARRY MCGEE: RETROSPECTIVE]

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It is a retrospective of sorts,

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so obviously I'm honored with the invitation to do it.

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But it's... I'm really uncomfortable in the situation.

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Not one person needs this much concrete and space.

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I was aware that they were going to find some old work that I wasn't happy with.

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There's, like, areas that I don't even want to visit anymore in my life.

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So, it's... I know it had to be here,

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but I just let other people hang it, and it looked okay.

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A lot of the vitrines are some of my friends'--

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the artwork that I like.

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If I could curate a good show, it would always have all of my friends

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and my favorite artists would be in here, also.

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Oh. Yeah, these all have my favorite things in them.

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This is a guy in Bolinas, this guy Chad.

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He passed away, but he used to do these paintings on wood

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of his favorite things. His favorite thing was Budweiser.

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He painted what he loved, [LAUGHS]

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and he signed it 'Chad'.

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My wife Clare made that.

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She made these three little canvases.

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She was really proud when she brought her classes up here,

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she was like, "I have paintings in here too, guys, okay?"

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"I have paintings in here."

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This is my ideal way to hang the artwork, too,

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just with like what I would call a more serious attempt at art,

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and then just something that a friend made on a Xerox machine right next to it--

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that's just as serious to me.

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These are boards.

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These are from thrift stores.

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I don't know what they are, but I keep on coming across them.

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I made these.

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These are ballpoint pen drawings, also.

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I just took a cue from what my father was doing.

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My dad, he passed away three years ago;

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But he always drew on napkins.

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Yeah, there's like thousands of these,

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and he would iron them with wax paper

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and he would always sign them, obviously: 'John C. McGee'.

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I tried to bring as many people as I could in here

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that deserve attention.

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There's so many more interesting things going on, I feel like.

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To me, it would be better as a massive group show--

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like, three hundred different people.

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Some kids in San Francisco did these.

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They're like in their early 20s.

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I was just kind of curious what they're...

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Like a twenty year-old kid that's into graffiti,

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what they're into.

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I think the generation is so far away from me now,

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I don't even know what they're doing anymore.

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I think it's so natural for them to be here, though.

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It'd be doing a big disservice for the Bay Area if this stuff wasn't here.

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This is where my work is going in the future--something like that.

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I'm very happy with that piece.

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Am I talking too much about my artwork now?

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I feel like I'm talking too much my artwork.

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[MAN OFF CAMERA] No, this is exactly what you're supposed to be doing.

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[MCGEE] Really?

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[MAN OFF CAMERA] Yeah.

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[MCGEE] I'm completely happy with this part.

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It was the hardest part to do for some reason.