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Read more +īlum and Poe, '5 Photographic Works, 1970-1974', Santa Monica CA McCarthy’s work comprises collaborations with artist-friends such as Mike Kelley and Jason Rhoades, as well as his son Damon McCarthy. For 18 years, he taught performance, video, installation, and art history in the New Genres Department at UCLA, where he influenced future generations of west coast artists and he has exhibited extensively worldwide. McCarthy earned a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1969, and an MFA in multimedia, film and art from USC in 1973. McCarthy’s work, thus, locates the traumas lurking behind the stage set of the American Dream and identifies their counterparts in the art historical canon. These playfully oversized characters and objects critique the worlds from which they are drawn: Hollywood, politics, philosophy, science, art, literature, and television. Whether absent or present, the human figure has been a constant in his work, either through the artist‘s own performances or the array of characters he creates to mix high and low culture, and provoke an analysis of our fundamental beliefs. Playing on popular illusions and cultural myths, fantasy and reality collide in a delirious yet poignant exploration of the subconscious, in works that simultaneously challenge the viewer’s phenomenological expectations.
He has since become known for visceral, often hauntingly humorous work in a variety of mediums – from performance, photography, film and video, to sculpture, drawing and painting.ĭuring the 1990s, he extended his practice into installations and stand-alone sculptural figures, utilizing a range of materials such as fiberglass, silicone, animatronics and inflatable vinyl. Born in 1945, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, he first established a multi-faceted artistic practice, which sought to break the limitations of painting by using unorthodox materials such as bodily fluids and food. Paul McCarthy is widely considered to be one of the most influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artists. Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1 Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1.Editions Gary Simmons ‘Black Ark Stars’ Editions.Publishers Frank Bowling ‘Penumbral Light’ Publishers.Frank Bowling ‘Penumbral Light’ Frank Bowling.Artist in Residence Christina Quarles Artist in Residence Christina Quarles.Hauser & Wirth Launches Education Project in Los Angeles Hauser & Wirth Launches Education Project in Los Angeles.Education Lab Returns to Menorca Education Lab Returns to Menorca.Beyond Nature: A Presentation by Make at Hauser & Wirth London Beyond Nature: A Presentation by Make at Hauser & Wirth London.New Exhibitions in Southampton this Summer New Exhibitions in Southampton this Summer.Royal College of Art Announces New Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship Royal College of Art Announces New Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship.Jenny Holzer ‘The intolerable is a climate we share’ Conversations Jenny Holzer ‘The intolerable is a climate we share’ Conversations.Books Leon Golub’s Unwavering Gaze Books.
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