Artist
Kim McCarty
American, b. 1956
Kim McCarty is an American artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Kim McCarty was born in Los Angeles.
Overview
Kim McCarty (born February 10, 1956, in Los Angeles, California) is an artist and watercolor painter living and working in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. 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. 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.
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).
Solo exhibitions
2015
Maloney Fine Art, Culver City, CA Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY 2013
Kim McCarty Paints, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA 2012
David Klein Gallery, Detroit MI Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY 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 An
Selected public and private collections
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
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
Collections represented
Museum