kim mccarty’s teens
From Leah Ollman’s LA Times review of artist Kim McCarty:
“Mixed up, messed up, high-spending and sexually precocious — the public image of teenagers these days is not a pretty sight. But it’s a sight the media can’t seem to get enough of. Now that 12- to 18-year-olds have been tagged as a marketer’s dream demographic, both the screen and the page are full of them and products aimed at them. The navel of the pop culture world is tanned, pierced and 15.
….Kim McCarty’s [watercolors] hint at what lies beneath the brash and sassy veneers: tenderness, tenuousness, vulnerability.” (read more)
Kim McCarty is an LA based artist who works quickly with wet watercolors on wet paper. She can make hundreds or thousands of paintings before hand selecting the few that “make the cut.”
If you happen to live in Detroit, you can check out her work at the David Klein gallery until June 20th.
Responses to “kim mccarty’s teens”
Yellowgoat
June 15, 2009 at 8:23 amThese are great.
Julia
June 15, 2009 at 9:15 amYou did an incredible job describing these! It’s always a bit surprising to see it out in front of you, that vulnerable youth. The paintings do a fantastic job conveying these feelings!
Amy
June 15, 2009 at 2:23 pmi forgot how much i love watercolor!
Michelle
June 15, 2009 at 2:37 pmThese are beautiful and say a lot. The body language is real and tells a story.
marina guimarães
June 15, 2009 at 3:59 pmit looks like egon schiele’s work. beautiful.
Bri
June 16, 2009 at 1:15 pmThe colors, the textures, the depth! Amazing.