Kim McCarty is a painter given to consistent reinvention. For the past decade, she has been experimenting with watercolor on a grand scale, painting lithe young boys and girls, often nude, occasionally with a provocative or sensual edge. Having shown at many museums and galleries, she is now at mid-career and having a unique museum experience.
As of this Saturday, April 6, she has set up a studio at the Santa Monica Museum of Art where she will paint small watercolors that will then be for sale through their store Gracie for as little as $300. Her larger watercolors now sell for five figures at her New York gallery so these are not only a bargain, they benefit the museum itself since she gives a large portion of the profit to them. Children, dogs and flowers are some of the intimate and personal subjects that she paints as a matter of course but these works are on a smaller scale.
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