CATHERINE
McCARTHY
American, born 1955, Lowell, Massachusetts
SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
"Doubling the World," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 – June 8, 2001.
"Beyond the Frame,"Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, October 6, 2000 – February 18, 2001.
"Upon a Lilac Sea: Paintings by
Catherine McCarthy," San Jose
Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, September
26 – January 9, 2000.
“Beautiful Girls,” David Beitzel
Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY, April 8th – May 15th,
1999.
“Velvet
and Plush,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, January 15 –
March 21, 1999.
"Catherine McCarthy, Gathering
Nectar," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 4 – May 16, 1998.
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY,
March-April 1997.*
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May –
June 1996.
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, May, 1995.
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY,
September, 1994.
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1994.
David Beitzel Gallery, Project Room, New
York, NY, 1993.
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1993.
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1992.
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1989.
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1986.
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
"Summer Group Exhibition," David
Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 20 - August 31, 2000.
“Summer Group Exhibition,” David
Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 8 – August 20, 1999.
“Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary
Landscape Painting,” Fuller
Museum of Art, Brockton, MA September
19 – December 13, 1998.
"Knowing Children,"
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY June 19 - July 31, 1998.
“Great Buys: Recent Acquisitions from
the Permanent Collection,” DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 1998.
“Abstract Expressionism/Figurative
Expressionism: Common Ground,” DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 1998.
“Sublime Nature,” Fuller Museum of
Art, Brockton, MA, 1998.
"Telling Tales," Curated by
Deborah Muirhead, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, February 9 - February 27, 1998.
“After Nature,” Herter Art Gallery,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1998.
"Subject(s) a Collective
Portrait," The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Boston, MA, September
11- October 26, 1997.
"Summer Group Show," David
Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 31-August 29, 1997.
"10 Artists/10 Visions,"
DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 1997.*
"The Persistence of Pop," Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, November 7 - December
15,1996.
"Inaugural Exhibition," Hosfelt
Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996.
"New Traditionalist," Museum of
Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, September 1996.*
"Changing Horizons: Landscape on the
Eve of the Millenium," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY,
July 28 - September 29, 1996.
"Microsoft Print Exhibition,"
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, March – April, 1996.
"Matters of the Heart," Haines
Gallery, San Francisco CA, February – March, 1996.
"In Her Own Voice," Gallery A,
Chicago, IL, 1996.
"Insight," David Beitzel
Gallery, New York, NY, June 22 - July 28, 1995.
"Printed Matter II," Miller
Block Gallery, Boston, MA, February 18 - March 14, 1995.
"Inspired by Nature: A Contemporary
View," Boston College Museum of Art, Newton, MA, 1995.
Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY,
1995.
"Pulp Fictions," Works On Paper,
Gallery A, Chicago, IL, 1995.
"Contemporary Prints at the
Drake," Chicago, IL, 1995.
"Power, Pleasure, Pain, Contemporary
Woman Artist and the Female Body," The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February - May 1994.
"Shrines, Symbols & Cherished
Objects," The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, January – April,
1994.
"The Uncommon Flower," Palo Alto
Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, 1993.
"Insight/Incite/Insite", Nielsen
Gallery, Boston, MA, 1993.
"Crossing the
Line-Abstraction/Figuration,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1993.
"Recent Acquisitions," The Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1992.
“Fragile Power: Exploration of
Memory,” Newton Art Center, Newton, MA, 1993.
"In the Spirit of Landscape,"
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1992.
"Introductions," Haines Gallery,
San Francisco, CA, 1992.
"The Bostonians," Terrain, San
Francisco, CA, 1991.
"10 Years of Boston Art at the
Nielsen Gallery," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1991.
"Nuclear Solstice," Mills
Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, 1991.
"Boston Now 10," The Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1991.
"The Sixth Triennial
Exhibition," Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, 1990.
"Summertime," Nielsen Gallery,
Boston, MA, 1989.
"New Work," Nielsen Gallery,
Boston, MA, 1988.
"Common Ground," Nielsen
Gallery, Boston, MA, 1988.
"Seven Women at the Nielsen
Gallery," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1987.
"Ten Boston Artists," Nielsen
Gallery, Boston, MA,1987.
"Boston Now Painting,” The
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1986.
"Summer Show," Nielsen Gallery,
Boston, MA, 1986.
"Summer Show," Nielson Gallery,
Boston, MA, 1985.
"Boston Artist Works on Paper,”
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 1981.
"Dogmatic Days: A Multi Media Group
Show," Gallery East, Boston, MA, 1981.
"On The Verge, 9 Boston
Painters," Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 1980
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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"San Jose Museum of Art Preview Party for McCarthy Exhibit," Valley
Scene, November 1999.
Jack Fischer.
" Huge canvases reflect a painter's interior world," San
Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley Life, Sunday October 3, 1999, Section G pp. 1 and 12.
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"Catherine McCarthy Review,"
San Francisco Magazine, September, 1999.
Alice Thorson. “Appropriations and
negotiations,” The
Kansas City Star, January 22, 1999.
Roger Boyce.
Art New England, April/May 1999.
Inara Cedrins.
“Knowing Children: David Beitzel Gallery,” Cover, September, 1998, page
51, volume
12, #4.
Maria Porges.
Artforum, September, 1988.
David Bonetti.
“Gallery Watch,” San
Francisco Examiner, April 17, 1998.
Otto Peter Erbar.
“Lowell-Born Artist Captures Inner life,” Lowell Sun, August
10,1997.
Cate McQuaid, "The DeCordova Presents
a Vital Look at Local Artist," The
Boston Sunday
Globe,
June 29, 1997.
George Melrod, "Ah, Wilderness!
Contemporary Artists Find Inspiration in Nature," Art
& Antiques, April, 1997.
“Catherine McCarthy,” Print Collector’s Newsletter,
Volume XXXVI, May-June, 1995.
Debra Bricker Balkan. “Catherine McCarthy,” David Beitzel Gallery, March 27 –
April 26, 1997.
Nancy Stapen, "Real Women Meet Old
Masters' Women," The Boston Globe, June 15, 1995.
Susan L. Stoops, "A Matter of Body
and Soul: Catherine McCarthy,” Boston
Commonwealth
Press, 1995.
Linda Yablonsky, "Catherine
McCarthy," Artforum,
January, 1995.
Eric Gibson, "Staking Out
Claims," Art
& Antiques, September, 1994, p. 31.
John Mendelsohn, "Transgressing the
Unconscious," Cover Magazine, September, 1994, p. 15.
Beth Wolfensberger, "Bodies of
Work," The
Boston Phoenix, April 22, 1994.
Cate McQuaid, "Power, Pleasure,
Pain," The
Boston Phoenix, April 8, 1994.
Nancy Stapen, "Elusive Movements
Captured in Paint," Boston Globe, April 22, 1993.
Christine Temin, "Perspectives,"
Boston Globe, September 23, 1992.
David Bonetti, "Gallery Watch," San
Francisco Examiner, July 17, 1992.
Miles Unger, "Nielsen Gallery/Boston;
Catherine McCarthy," Art
New England, June – July, 1992.
Addison Parks, "A Room with A
View," ARTS
Magazine, 1992.
Nancy Stapen, "Painters' Evocative
Images Are Rooted in Geometric Units," The
Boston Globe, March 20,1992.
Miles Unger, "Spotlight: Attack of
the Killer Penis," Art New England, October - November, 1991.
Miles Unger, "Spotlight: The
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Now 10," Art
New England, August - September 1991.
Nancy Stapen, "Vital Art Born in
Boston," The
Boston Globe, June 27, 1991.
Cate McQuaid, "ICA Now," South
End News, June 13, 1991.
Mary Sherman, "Contemporary
Contradictions in Boston Now 10," The Boston Herald, May 31, 1991.
Christine Temin, "Boston Now 10
Unites Potent Works,” The Boston Globe, May 31,1991.
Miles Unger, "Boston 1990: The Sixth
Triennial Exhibition," Art New England, January-February 1991.
Christine Temin, "In Brockton a Slice
of Boston's Art Scene," The
Boston Globe, October 19, 1990.
Carl Little, "Catherine McCarthy at
the Nielsen," Art in America, March, 1990.
Miles Unger, "Nielsen Gallery/Boston
Catherine McCarthy: New Work," Art
New England, February, 1990.
Christine Temin, "Catherine
McCarthy's Mysterious, Menacing Imagery,"
The Boston Globe, November 16,1989.
David Bonetti, "Art On and Off the
Street," The Boston Phoenix, November 5, 1987.
Christine Temin, "Perspectives,”
The Boston Globe, November 5, 1987.
David Bonetti, "If Not Now,
When?," The
Boston Phoenix, July 15, 1986.
Norman Keyes, "McCarthy's
Drawings,”
The Boston Globe, February 12, 1986.
Amy Lighthill, "The State of the
Artist," Art
New England, October, 1984.
Eugene Narrett, "South End Artists
Show," Art
New England, April, 1983.
Sarah Wright, "The Postmodern
Manifesto," The
Real Paper, May 7, 1981.
Robert Taylor, "Boston Artist Works
On Paper," The Boston Globe, October 25, 1981.
Robert Taylor, "Elusive Zest Characterizes Young Artist at Boston University Gallery,” Boston Globe, December 6, 1980.
PUBLIC
AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, New
York, NY
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Investment, New York, NY
Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO
Harris Associates, Chicago, IL
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas
City, MO
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Saks Fifth Avenue Corporation
Headquarters, New York, NY
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
SELECTED
AWARDS
New England Foundation for the Arts Grant,
1998
Ucross Foundation Award, 1996
Artist-in-Residence, Ucross Foundation,
Wyoming, 1996
Semi-Finalist, Massachusetts Artist
Fellowship, Painting, 1984
The Ruskin School's Annual Drawing Award,
1976
EDUCATION
Massachusetts College of Art, B.F.A., 1978
The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art,
Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1976-77
Massachusetts College of Art, 1975-76