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Kim McCarty | New Work
Solo exhibition, 26 October - 9 December 2017
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Kim McCarty | New Work: Solo exhibition

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Works
  • Kim McCarty, Brown/Multi Reclining - Small, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Brown/Multi Reclining - Small, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Brown/Pink Magenta Reclining - Small, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Brown/Pink Magenta Reclining - Small, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Purple Reclining - Small, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Purple Reclining - Small, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Purple Hand on Cheek, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Purple Hand on Cheek, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Orange Flowers, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Orange Flowers, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Dripping Hair, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Dripping Hair, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Blue / Herbs, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Blue / Herbs, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Purple - Male, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Purple - Male, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Male Nude, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Male Nude, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Untitled Nude, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Untitled Nude, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Untitled, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Untitled, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Untitled, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Untitled, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Looking Over Shoulder, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Looking Over Shoulder, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Blue Reclining - Small, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Blue Reclining - Small, 2017
  • Kim McCarty, Green - Male, 2017
    Kim McCarty, Green - Male, 2017
Press release

Kim McCarty’s obsession with watercolor and its ephemerality as a medium began when the artist’s home and studio burned down in a massive wildfire in 1993. Since then, each McCarty painting is the result of many attempts at securing an image that reads as both static and transitory. The artist’s process of working wet-into-wet on loose sheets of watercolor paper laid out across the floor forces her to grapple with forms that might disappear or disintegrate at any moment, inviting a perpetual renegotiating and reimagining of her subject through the liquidity of pigment suspended in water.

 

Ever-present are McCarty’s favorite subjects (the nude, the botanical), but these new works point more overtly to art history, especially iconic Classical imagery. Such symbols inform and expound upon McCarty’s longstanding interest in ideas of youth, beauty, longing, and the ideal. Here, bodies past and present come together, inviting questions of how historical male and female selves might relate to the transforming gender identities of today. Flowers and buds suggest another play on gender, while the Cannabis plant hints at an underlying dreamlike thread of narratives.

 

The artist describes her desire (if not compulsion) to create and recreate an image as “a means to control all that is so intangible.” Such is the spirit of this exhibition, where the evanescent meets the material. Morgan Lehman is delighted to present these works in the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.

 

 
 
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