CATHERINE McCARTHY xxxxx biography
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Catherine McCarthy creates luscious paintings infused with
the sensibility of centuries past. Profoundly personal yet
rich with metaphor, her work incorporates references to art
history, religion, science, memory, and ideals of femininity.
Meaning lies in the transitions and connections between
isolated passages of landscape, body parts, scribbles of
text, and splashes of paint.

Her details are appropriated from such sources as mid-
twentieth century children’s textbooks, the nineteenth
century seascape paintings of Martin Johnson Heade,
Japanese wood block prints, nautical manuals, history
books, and contemporary fashion magazines. Her newest
body of work follows the journey of her alter-ego, the
geisha Nagasaki Moon.

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Enough is Enough (Song without Words), 2005
   
 
   
Himitsu No Arashi, 2005
  
       
   
 
   
My Petit Monsoon, 2005
  
       
     
   
Petal and Pearl, 2005
  
       
     
   
I Know How To Laugh (Ghost Ship), 2000