Margaret
McCarthy
Media:
Photography, Mixed Media
Studio Location:
43-01 22nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101
Room/Studio#
311
Website:
Artist Bio:
Exhibition Highlights: the Fogg Art Museum, The Griffin Museum of Photography, the Overseas Press Club and The Hudson River Museum; numerous galleries, universities and public exhibition spaces -- especially in the vibrant Long Island City arts community.
Selected Public Collections: The Kinsey Institute Art Collection, Indiana University; The New York State Museum, Albany, NY; The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, TX; Aperture Photobook Library, New York, NY; Poets House, New York, NY, The Archives of Irish America, Bobst Library, NYU, NY.
Fine art publications: ON LANDSCAPE (UK), BW GALLERIST (Best of Best) ARTZEALOUS, (Photographers to Watch,) LENSCRATCH, SHADOW AND LIGHT Magazine, MUSEÈ Magazine, aCURATOR, LE JOURNAL de la PHOTOGRAPHIE, Elizabeth Avedon’s Photography BlogSpot, University of Georgia’s ARTS AND LETTERS JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, WRITING ON WATER (MIT Press), PARABOLA Magazine, SOUTH X SOUTHEAST photomagazine.
McCarthy has been awarded fellowship grants from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ragdale Foundation and The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences. A graduate of New York City’s School of Visual Arts, she has juried its BFA Scholarship Awards Panel; she has taught and mentored art students through The Great Lakes Colleges New York Arts Program.
Artist Statement:
Margaret McCarthy is an artist using photography, poetry and theatre. Her background as a poet and playwright influences her visual art and way of telling stories; she brings the eye of a poet and the soul of a dramatist to her photography.
Her work is driven by a sense of wonder at the fecund creativity of the natural world; while our culture seems determined to manipulate and control the natural world, her photographs address our soul’s yearning for a way back to balance with it. Inspired by myth, she photographs the landscapes of the ancient world with an immediate, intuitive reaction to the unique spirit or “genius loci” of each iconic place. Her work has taken her to the standing stones across Europe, the pyramids of Mexico, the temples of Greece and the castros of Celtic Spain.
Her goal: make images that bridge past and future, inner and outer worlds, art and commerce. Her philosophy: “Beauty in an ugly age is revolutionary.”
