Mike McGee is an American curator, art writer, educator, and arts administrator. He is the gallery director for the Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery at

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(CSUF) in Fullerton,

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Biography

He is the co-founder of the

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in 1994, and was interim acting director in 2011 for the CSUF Grand Central Art Center. McGee has been professor of the Masters program in Exhibition Design and

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at CSUF for the past 22 years. McGee has served as a board member for Arts Orange County, OCCCA, CSUF Grand Central Art Center and is an Arts Commissioner for the City of Santa Ana. He had

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and underwent a kidney transplant in 2008.

Publications

McGee has written major essays for several exhibitions, including: *"Mark Ryden: Bunnies and Bees", Porterhouse Fine Arts Editions and GCP, 2002 *"100 Artists See Satan", Grand Central Press, 2004, co-published by Last Gasp, San Francisco, CA *"

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-A retrospective", Grand Central Press, 2009 *"The Saddest Place on Earth-The Art of

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", Grand Central Press, 2006, co-published by Last Gasp, San Francisco, CA *"Charles Kraff's Villa Delirium", Grand Central Press, 2002, co-published by Last Gasp, San Francisco, CA *"Allegedly - Hugh Brown, Status Factory", *"The Art of

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, in process *"Mel's Hole" Grand Central Press, 2008, co-published by Last Gasp, San Francisco, CA *"

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- Heaven on Earth", Grand Central Press, 2004, co-published by

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, San Francisco, CA *" Jan de Swart, *"As Above So Below", Grand Central Press, 2004 *"Mark Ryden. Pinxit",

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, 2012 *"G. Ray Kerciu Radical Retrospective", Grand Central Press, 2013, co-published by CSU Fullerton, Begovich Gallery He is also a contributing writer to "The Curiosities of Janice Lowry", Grand Central Press, 2011 and " Suggestivism", Gingko Press and Grand Central Press, 2011

References

External links

CSUF Spotlight: Detrás de las Cortinas art exhibit.CSUF Grand Central Art Center: "Brent Green-To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given"Juxtapoz: Hugh Brown’s “Allegedly” at GCAC with Greg Escalante and Nathan Spoor.
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