Kim McCarty

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Kim McCarty (born February 10, 1956, in Los Angeles, California) [1] is an artist and watercolor painter living and working in Los Angeles, California. [2] Her work has been exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. [3] She often works in large formats using layers of monochromatic colors. [2] [4]

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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. [5] 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. [4]

Education

[1] 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

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Selected public and private collections

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Bibliography

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