“The Dowry,” 1994 | 74” x 53”
Exhibition on view:
July 22, 2023 – January 12, 2025
Christina Pugh, University of Michigan Press, 2024
Cover Image:
‘Rhyme and Reason,’ 2018 | 20” x 16”
Essay Light in Nagasaki:
‘We Walk on Jewels,’ 2005 Solo Exhibition
Essay Arranging, Deepening, Enchanting:
‘Flower Arranging,’ 2012 Solo Exhibition
“Catherine’s fractures, layers, and pushing at the bounds now make even more sense to me. “Tall Blonde,” her distorted portrait of a woman, has flowing locks, a posture of worry, and one limpid, anxious eye - but no body. The painting captures a gulf between what registers as feminine identity and felt (or numb) bodily experience. At the same time, it depicts a common struggle with agency, biology, and selfhood in the face of the 2022 Dobbs decision, which in essence decreed that our bodies are not our own. “Tall Blonde” is seen in society’s mirror. Ouch.”
Cate McQuaid | April 21, 2024
Featured Painting:
“Tall Blonde,” 2022 | 80” x 60”
Featuring the work of seven contemporary artists, the exhibition examines how the female form represents a space of agency and oppression.
Emma Breitman | March 19, 2024
Featured Painting:
“DNA,” 2024 | 12” x 12”
Fitchburg Art Museum
Exhibition on view:
February 3 — June 2, 2024
PAAM
Exhibition on view:
May 10, 2024 — June 16, 2024
Art Miami 2022
“Tiresias,” 2021 | 60” x 60”
Exhibition on view:
December 3 - 8 2022
Art Wynwood 2020
“No More Tears,” 2020 | 50” x 60”
Exhibition on view:
February 13–17, 2020
Art Palm Beach 2020
“Bushwhacker,” 2019 | 60” x 60”
Exhibition on view:
January 30 - February 4 2020
Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary 2020
“2020,” 2020 | 60” x 50”
Exhibition on view:
January 9 - 12 2020
2020 Berkshire Taconic Foundation
A.R.T. Fund for Artists Award
“2020,” 2020 | 60” x 50”
Exhibition on view:
January 9 - 12 2020
Art Miami 2019
“Original Woman,” 2019 | 30” x 24”
Exhibition on view:
December 3 - 8 2019
Issue 102, Fall 2018
Featured Painting:
“Petal and Pearl,” 2004 | 20” x 16”
Boston Globe:
When painting bumps up against reality
“McCarthy’s specificity and allusions startle and provoke, and the she always returns to the paint, a material stand-in for the loam of memory and imagination.”
Cate McQuaid, September 2017
Featured Painting:
Detail of “The Revisionist,” 2017 | 24” x 24”
Echo Art Fair, Buffalo.
Exhibition on view:
May 13-15, 2016 with Alden Gallery.
Boston Globe:
Arts Wednesday
“McCarthy layers images and juicy, abstract strokes in ‘Husbands and Wives,’ a dark series that balances sunny images of mid-20th-century suburbia with painterly evocations, both abstract and representational, of underlying dread and hysteria.”
Cate McQuaid, August 17, 2011
Boston Magazine:
Best of Boston 2004
“McCarthy takes her time with every canvas… Her figurative renderings drive the composition, but its her darker pallet of lush abstract space that gives each piece its contemporary flair.”