Known for her fluid yet controlled handling of the watercolor medium, Kim McCarty's paintings of fabricated figures and elements of nature are subtle, translucent and absolutely mesmerizing. McCarty uses a wet in wet technique that allows pigments to run into one another and form spontaneous pools of color combinations, the process of her rapidly created works are analogous to the flash of time that is portrayed in the work. As Hammer Museum Curator Claudine Isé notes, McCarty's subjects “appear to be fading away before our eyes”.
Kim McCarty received a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has had recent exhibitions at Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles (2009); UCLA's Hammer Museum (2007); cherry and martin, Los Angeles (2006); Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York (2005); Pasadena Museum of Art (2005); and Aldrich Museum of Art, Connecticut (2005).
McCarty’s works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (New York), UCLA Hammer Museum and the Honolulu Academy of Art.