Untitled (Colors) and Untitled (Ghost)

2010 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)

Alicia McCarthy

location: Oakland, California
year born: 1969
gender: female
nationality: American
home town: Oakland, California

A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (Colors) and Untitled (Ghost) are representative of McCarthy’s work. Upon first encounter, her abstract colorful compositions resemble somewhat formal nonrepresentational landscapes. However, a closer inspection reveals the presence of a lowbrow style that draws inspiration both from outsider and folk art traditions.


San Francisco-based Alicia McCarthy graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1990s and later pursued an MFA at UC Berkeley. She is now considered part of the first generation of “Mission School” artists, alongside Barry McGee, Rubi Neri, and Rigo23. McCarthy’s early work was largely associated with collective practices, graffiti art, and San Francisco’s active queer punk scene. In line with a trend that rejects the use of consumer goods, McCarthy’s paintings often begin with found materials such as discarded wood panels, on which she paints and draws with acrylic, latex, graphite, or crayon.


Colors:



Untitled (Bird and Eyes)
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Clare Rojas

2008

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Untitled
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Barry McGee

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Untitled (Butterfly)
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Mark Grotjahn

2002

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The Transparencies of the Non-Act
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Untitled (The way in is the way out)
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Alicia McCarthy

2010

A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (the way in is the way out) is representative of McCarthy’s work...

Untitled (Bird and Eyes)
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Clare Rojas

2008

Rojas’s two pieces in the Kadist Collection— Untitled (four-legged…) and Untitled (Bird’s Eyes) —are representative of her pictorial style which uses bold colorful blocks of paint and female and animal characters...

Untitled
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Barry McGee

Barry McGee’s Untitled is a collection of roughly fifty, framed photographs, paintings, and text pieces clustered together in corner...

Gypsy
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Pascal Shirley

2006

Gypsy shows an ambivalent scene, in which broken blinds and its unsmiling subject are balanced with the stilllife plentitude of watermelon slices and the beautifully lit nudity of the sitter...

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Nigerian artist Chibuike Uzoma brings dreamy paintings to Paris
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o que diriam as pedras a marte?
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arquivo mangue

2022

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Untitled (Boom Box, Double-Sided)
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Mary Ann Aitken

2002

Untitled (Boom Box, Double-Sided) by Mary Ann Aitken is representational painting of a boom box on an unconventionally long canvas painted on both sides, to mimic the scale and appearance of the actual appliance...

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Fordlândia Fieldwork
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Clarissa Tossin

2012

In Fordlândia Fieldwork (2012), Tossin documents the remains of Henry Ford’s rubber enterprise Fordlândia, built in 1928 in the Brazilian Amazon to export cultivated rubber for the booming automobile industry...

Untitled
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Mark Bradford

2012

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Ranu Mukherjee

2011

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Desiree Holman

2010

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Untitled (The way in is the way out)
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