Kim McCarty (born February 10, 1956, in Los Angeles, California)Morgan Lehman Gallery website. Accessed December 15, 2015 http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/attachment/en/5331addecc8e1a98618b4568/TextOneColumnWithFile/533315266b921a2e138b4618 is an artist and watercolor painter living and working in Los Angeles, California.Maloney Fine Art website. Accessed December 2, 2015 http://www.maloneyfineart.com/#!mccarty/cksq Her work has been exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles.Artspace.com. Accessed January 13, 2016 She often works in large formats using layers of monochromatic colors.
Career and work McCarty works in a wet-on-wet watercolor technique, normally associated with oil painting, in which the paint is applied to a moistened sheet of paper.Artsy.net. Accessed December 15, 2015 https://www.artsy.net/artist/kim-mccarty She began working in the watercolor medium in 1993, after her studio was destroyed by a fire and was unable to find a space with proper ventilation for oil paint. A 2015 review by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp notes that McCarty is known best for paintings of young, unclothed men and women; it describes her work in that show—images of rabbits and dogs—as unpredictable and spontaneous.Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, "Sadie Benning and Kim McCarty", KCRW Art Talk, January 15, 2015. Accessed April 13, 2020.
Education
1988 University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts). 1980 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts).
Professional life
Solo exhibitions 2015 Maloney Fine Art, Culver City, CA Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Kim McCarty Paints, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CARefinery29. Accessed January 13, 2016 http://www.refinery29.com/kim-mccarty-santa-monica-museum-of-art#slideOpening Ceremony. Accessed January 13, 2016 http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=7469 2012 David Klein Gallery, Detroit MI Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NYWatercolor.net. Accessed January 13, 2015 http://watercolor.net/kim-mccarty-boys-and-girls/ 2009 Lightbox Gallery, Los Angeles, California David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI 2006 Kim McCarty, cherry and martin, Los Angeles, California 2005 Kim McCarty, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Under Glass, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, California Watercolors, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Kim McCarty, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2002 Kim McCarty, Rebecca Ibel, Columbus, Ohio Kim McCarty, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, CA 2000 Kim McCarty, Recent Paintings, De Chiara/ Stewart, New York, NY 1999 Kim McCarty, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, CA Kim McCarty, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho 1998 Drawings, Works on Paper Inc. Los Angeles, California 1997 Helen, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA 1996 Recent Paintings, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA 1992 Recent Paintings, Janie Beggs Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Group exhibitions 2014 Watercolor, Griffin Fine Art, London, England New York Armory, David Klein Gallery, New York 2012 Wet, Kim McCarty/Natalie Franks, Eden Rock Gallery, St Barthes, New York Armory Modern, David Klein Gallery, New York Fresh, MOCA, Los Angeles, California Selling Sex Show, studio, London, England Twisted Sister, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY 2011 California Contemporary, Scott White Gallery, San Diego CA Inaugural Exhibition, Heiner Contemporary Gallery, Washington DC Eve, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, California Art Platform, David Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2010 Dis-a-pear, Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY Fresh Figures and Abstraction, Scott White Gallery, San Diego, CA View to the Soul, Portraiture Old and New, Heather James Gallery, Palm Desert, Medium is the Message, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI 2009 Blue, Blue, Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery, Culver City, CA Draw the Line, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Dillitantes, Divas and Dandies, Gavlak Projects, Palm Beach, FL Watercolorland, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2008 Ces Enfants Etranges, Shore institute of the Arts, New Jersey Black Dragon Society exhibition, Black Dragon, Los Angeles California Contemporary Art, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo Artists Portraits of Artists, Pace University Gallery, New York, New York 2007 Empty Nest, The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the present, Nathan A Bernstein Gallery, New York, November 1 to January 12, 2008 Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part 2, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California The Unexpected Watercolor, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 2006 100 artists, 100 watercolors, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York August Light, Great Barrington, MA Figuratively Speaking, Part 2, Elika Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY LA: Now, Dominique Fiat Galerie, Paris, France Portrait Show, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2005 Contemporary Erotic Drawings, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Liquid Los Angeles: Currents of Contemporary Watercolor Painting Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA The Unexpected Watercolor, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR Painted Ladies, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA 2004 Drawn to the Present, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY What's Doin?, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Summer Group Show, Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, California New Talent and Familiar Faces, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California LA Woman, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA Expect: Art, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Behind Door Nine, UCSB University Art Museum, Santa Barbara. CA 2003 International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, Smoking Pencils Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California The Great Drawing Show 1550–2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California Wet Paint, Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California Biosystems, USC Institute of Genetic Medicine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California Multiple Expressions, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2002 What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, California Toyland, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon A Thousand Clowns, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2001 Re-Configuration, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China Re-Configuration, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium 2000 H2O, Works On Paper, Inc. Los Angeles, California For Example, Acuna Hansen, Los Angeles, California Paintings, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Exhibition, New Jersey Center For The Arts, Summit, NJ Certain Things: Unlikely Treasures, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY MOCA Auction, MOCA, Los Angeles, California 1999 Works on Paper, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Traces New Drawing, Katrina Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1997 LA Current: A Media Fusion, UCLA Gallery at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California The Painted Image, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA Group Exhibition, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA LA Current: The Female Perspective, UCLA Gallery / Armand Hammer Museum, L.A. 1995 LA Woman, Lutz Hegenbarth, Cologne, Germany
Selected public and private collections Artspace website. Accessed January 3, 2016 http://www.artspace.com/kim_mccarty Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY * UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California The Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WI * Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, NY Latham and Watkins, New York, NY * Neuburger and Berman, Los Angeles, California Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Bibliography Vogue, Irene Neuwirth, index, March 2013 Huffington Post, Boys and Girls Brings Uncertain Humanity to Morgan Lehman Gallery, November 14, 2012 Elist Jasmine, Subliminal Projects Gallery "Eve" is all about Female Creation. LA Times. July 28, 2011 S.R. Leher, Kim McCarty At Kim Light/Lightbox, Los Angeles, Art on Paper, September/October 2009 Miles, Christopher, Kim McCarty, LA Weekly, April 30, 2009 Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, Artist's Pick, Artnews, February, 2006 Pincus, Robert, "Ladies and Dreamscapes", The San Diego Union Tribune, June 30, 2005 Genocchio, Benjamin, "Erotic Goes Mainstream" The New York Times, Sunday, May 8, 2005 Karlins, N.F. "Teenage Tempest", Artnet, Thursday, April 7, 2005 Lombardi, D. Dominick, "Drawn to the Present", The New York Times, Sunday, October 17, 2004 Jones, Lesli, "Step into Liquid", Art on Paper, July/August, 2004 Frank, Peter, "Mark Steven Greenfield, LA Woman," Pick of the week, LA Weekly, May 4–10, 2004 Wood, Eve, Mojo Rising," Artnet, May 2, 2004 Pence, Elizabeth, "LA Woman," Artweek, May, 2004 Green, Tyler, "DC Dairy, Revival of Painting," Artnet, March 17, 2004 New American Painting, 49th Edition, 2003, (cover) El-Diri, Hanadi, "Youth," An-Nahar, Beirut, Lebanon, July 3, 2003 Mageean, Sean, "The Dreams of Children, New Watercolors, by Kim McCarty," The Independent, June 12, 2003 Donelon, Charles, "Brutal Youth," Santa Barbara News Press, May 2003 Frank, Peter, "International Paper," Art on Paper, April 2003 Chen, Eva, "Artists," Elle Magazine, April 2003 Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Kim McCarty at cherrydelosreyes," Artweek, March 2003 Knight, Christopher, "Drawing Not Toeing the Line," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2003 Ohlman, Leah, "Teens Stripped of Their Veneer," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2003 Fyer-Kohles, Jeanne, "Two Rooms best for vastly different works," Columbus Dispatch, November 2002 Green, Robert, "Artist Curates," Artforum, April 2002 Wei, Lilly, "Elsewhere, Everywhere, Here," catalog essay, "Re-configuration," 2001 Galleries New York, Contemporary Art Report, October 2000 Kokot, Sharon, "Works on Paper" hardly flimsy," The Columbus Dispatch, June 1999 Kaplan, Peggy Hall, "Malibu Artist Draws Her Motivation from Experiencing Trial by Fire," Malibu Surfside News, February 11, 1999 Clothier, Peter, "Inside-Out," catalog essay for Kim McCarty, Works on Paper, Inc. August 28. 1998 Irmas, Deborah, "L.A. Summer Surf," Artnet, July/August 1998
References
External links and additional references Kim McCarty Art on 1stdibs.com Kim McCarty official website Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology, Issues 57-70 San Diego Magazine, July 2005 - Page 239 Hometown Santa Monica: The Bay Cities Book