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Dan McCarthy: Freedom - Hardcover

McCarthy, Dan

 
9780847836864: Dan McCarthy: Freedom

Synopsis

The first comprehensive monograph surveying the expansive twenty-five-plus-year career of the highly influential artist, known for his rainbow-colored paintings, drawings, and emotive ceramic facepots.

McCarthy is known for his gestural and intuitive artwork. His brightly coloured paintings, with loose brushwork, depict figures in action: dancing, surfing, fishing, and skateboarding often against a rainbow-colored background. His ongoing series of ceramic facepots delight with their hand-built immediacy and invested emotionality. McCarthy who worked on fishing boats near Catalina Island and cites the Pacific Ocean as a lasting influence on his work.

The beautifully curated book includes an 8-page gatefold and a French-fold jacket, which opens up to a collectible foldout poster.

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About the Author

Dan McCarthy received his BFA at San Francisco Art Institute in 1984. McCarthy has exhibited at Anton Kern Gallery in New York, Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels, Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam, and Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve in Paris. His work is in the collection of MoMA New York, MAM Paris, ICA Miami,and DESTE Foundation. His published monographs include Dan McCarthy, 2007, Facepots, 2015, and Skateboarders, 2018. Writer Robert Sullivan is the author of Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, and My American Revolution. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, A Public Space, and Vogue. He is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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The first comprehensive monograph surveying the expansive twenty-five-plus-year career of the highly influential artist, known for his rainbow-colored paintings, drawings, and emotive ceramic facepots.

McCarthy is known for his gestural and intuitive artwork. His brightly colored paintings, with loose brushwork, depict figures in action: dancing, surfing, fishing, and skateboarding often against a rainbow-colored background. His ongoing series of ceramic facepots delight with their hand-built immediacy

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