Kim McCarty (born February 10, 1956 in Los Angeles, CA) is a watercolor painter, artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. McCarty's work has been exhibited in over 20 solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. She works in layers of monochromatic colors.
McCarty began working with the watercolor medium in 1993 after her studio was destroyed by a fire. She could no longer find a space with proper ventilation for working with oil paint. She works in a wet-on-wet technique, normally associated with oil painting , in which the paint is applied to a moistened sheet of paper.
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 ).
2015
Maloney Fine Art, Culver City, CA Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY 2013
Kim McCarty Paints, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA 2012
David Klein Gallery, Detroit MI Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY 2009
Lightbox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2006
Kim McCarty, cherry and martin, Los Angeles, CA 2005
Kim McCarty, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Under Glass, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA Watercolors, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Kim McCarty, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2002
Kim McCarty, Rebecca Ibel, Columbus, Ohio Kim McCarty, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, CA 2000
Kim McCarty, Recent Paintings, De Chiara/ Stewart, New York, NY 1999
Kim McCarty, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, CA Kim McCarty, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho 1998
Drawings, Works on Paper Inc. Los Angeles, CA
1997
Helen, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA 1996
Recent Paintings, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA 1992
Recent Paintings, Janie Beggs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014
Watercolor, Griffin Fine Art, London, England New York Armory, David Klein Gallery, New York 2012
Wet, Kim McCarty/Natalie Franks, Eden Rock Gallery, St Barthes, New York Armory Modern, David Klein Gallery, New York Fresh, MOCA,Los Angeles, CA Selling Sex Show, studio, London, England Twisted Sister, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
2011
California Contemporary, Scott White Gallery, San Diego CA Inaugural Exhibition, Heiner Contemporary Gallery, Washington DC Eve, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles CA Art Platform, David Klein Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2010
Dis-a-pear, Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY Fresh Figures and Abstraction, Scott White Gallery, San Diego, CA View to the Soul, Portraiture Old and New, Heather James Gallery, Palm Desert, Medium is the Message, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI 2009
Blue, Blue, Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery, Culver City, CA Draw the Line, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Dillitantes, Divas and Dandies, Gavlak Projects, Palm Beach, FL Watercolorland, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008
Ces Enfants Etranges, Shore institute of the Arts, New Jersey Black Dragon Society exhibition, Black Dragon, Los Angeles California Contemporary Art, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo Artists Portraits of Artists, Pace University Gallery, New York, New York 2007
Empty Nest, The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the present, Nathan A Bernstein Gallery, New York, November 1 to January 12, 2008 Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part 2, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA The Unexpected Watercolor, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2006
100 artists, 100 watercolors, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York August Light, Great Barrington, MA Figuratively Speaking, Part 2, Elika Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY LA: Now, Dominique Fiat Galerie, Paris, France Portrait Show, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005
Contemporary Erotic Drawings, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Liquid Los Angeles: Currents of Contemporary Watercolor Painting Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA The Unexpected Watercolor, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR Painted Ladies, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA 2004
Drawn to the Present, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY What's Doin?, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Summer Group Show, Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA New Talent and Familiar Faces, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA LA Woman, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA Expect: Art, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Behind Door Nine, UCSB University Art Museum, Santa Barbara. CA 2003
International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Smoking Pencils Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Wet Paint, Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California Biosystems, USC Institute of Genetic Medicine Art Gallery, Los Angeles,CA Multiple Expressions, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002
What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Toyland, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon A Thousand Clowns, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Re-Configuration, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China Re-Configuration, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium 2000
H20, Works On Paper, Inc. Los Angeles, CA For Example, Acuna Hansen, Los Angeles, CA Paintings, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Exhibition, New Jersey Center For The Arts, Summit, NJ Certain Things: Unlikely Treasures, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY MOCA Auction, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 1999
Works on Paper, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Traces New Drawing, Katrina Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1997
LA Current: A Media Fusion, UCLA Gallery at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA The Painted Image, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA Group Exhibition, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA LA Current: The Female Perspective, UCLA Gallery / Armand Hammer Museum, L.A. 1995
LA Woman, Lutz Hegenbarth, Cologne, Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY * UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WI * Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, NY Latham and Watkins, New York, NY * Neuburger and Berman, Los Angeles, CA Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii Vogue, Irene Neuwirth, index, March 2013 Huffington Post, Boys and Girls Brings Uncertain Humanity to Morgan Lehman Gallery, November 14, 2012 Elist Jasmine, Subliminal Projects Gallery "Eve" is all about Female Creation. LA Times. July 28, 2011 S.R. Leher, Kim McCarty At Kim Light/Lightbox, Los Angeles, Art on Paper, September/October 2009 Miles, Christopher, Kim McCarty, LA Weekly, April 30, 2009 Drohojoswka-Philp, Hunter, Artist's Pick, Artnews, February, 2006 Pincus, Robert, "Ladies and Dreamscapes", The San Diego Union Tribune, June 30, 2005 Genocchio, Benjamin, "Erotic Goes Mainstream" The New York Times, Sunday, May 8, 2005 Karlins, N.F. "Teenage Tempest", Artnet, Thursday, April 7, 2005 Lombardi, D. Dominick, "Drawn to the Present", The New York Times, Sunday, October 17, 2004 Jones, Lesli, "Step into Liquid", Art on Paper, July/August, 2004 Frank, Peter, "Mark Steven Greenfield, LA Woman," Pick of the week, LA Weekly, May 4–10, 2004 Wood, Eve, Mojo Rising," Artnet, May 2, 2004 Pence, Elizabeth, "LA Woman," Artweek, May, 2004 Green, Tyler, "DC Dairy, Revival of Painting," Artnet, March 17, 2004 New American Painting, 49th Edition, 2003, (cover) El-Diri, Hanadi, "Youth," An-Nahar, Beirut, Lebanon, July 3, 2003 Mageean, Sean, "The Dreams of Children, New Watercolors, by Kim McCarty," The Independent, June 12, 2003 Donelon, Charles, "Brutal Youth," Santa Barbara News Press, May 2003 Frank, Peter, "International Paper," Art on Paper, April 2003 Chen, Eva, "Artists," Elle Magazine, April 2003 Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Kim McCarty at cherrydelosreyes," Artweek, March 2003 Knight, Christopher, "Drawing Not Toeing the Line," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2003 Ohlman, Leah, "Teens Stripped of Their Veneer," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2003 Fyer-Kohles, Jeanne, "Two Rooms best for vastly different works," Columbus Dispatch, November 2002 Green, Robert, "Artist Curates," Artforum, April 2002 Wei, Lilly, "Elsewhere, Everywhere, Here," catalog essay, "Re-configuration," 2001 Galleries New York, Contemporary Art Report, October 2000 Kokot, Sharon, "Works on Paper" hardly flimsy," The Columbus Dispatch, June 1999 Kaplan, Peggy Hall, "Malibu Artist Draws Her Motivation from Experiencing Trial by Fire," Malibu Surfside News, February 11, 1999 Clothier, Peter, "Inside-Out," catalog essay for Kim McCarty, Works on Paper, Inc. August 28. 1998 Irmas, Deborah, "L.A. Summer Surf," Artnet, July/August 1998 
