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Artist Exhibitions:
September 5 – October 11, 2008
Opening Reception Friday,
September 5, 5:30 –8:30 pm
Important and Collectable
Original Art Group Show
The Aldo Castillo Gallery
presents a new artists
exhibition featuring 40 new
and established artists.
Guidelines:
1)Theme: Artwork should appeal
to collectors therefore should
be: Abstract, rural ...
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Artist Galleries:
Vast Imagery Gallery
(Not Exclusive)
Gallows Bay Marketplace
5027 Anchor Way, Suites 1-13
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
00820-4671...
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Artist Reviews:
ST. CROIX PAINTER TO SHOWCASE
HIS WORK IN CHICAGO MUSEUM
By Ayesha Morris
Copyright 2008 Virgin Islands
Daily News
Sept. 5, 2008 -- Flinging
tubes of paint against canvas
is John McCarthy’s signature.
The resulting streaks, created
from drips or strings of
Utrecht oil colors, are his
abstract imaginings.
“It’...
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Collections:
Louise Stapleton, San Diego,
California
Tom Michael, Troy, Michigan
Vast Imagery Galleries, St.
Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Todd Cherry, Livonia, Michigan
Shawn M. Izenson, Alexandria,
Virginia
Larry Williams, Sydney,
Australia
Severn Kellam, Norfolk,
Virginia
Millard Davis, Norfolk,
Virginia
Aileen Reid, Los Angeles,
California
Holliday Jarvis, La Romana,
Dominican Republic...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for John Mccarthy
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JFM Theory: Chaos is the ultimate order.
The energy embodied in John McCarthy's triptychs especially spring from a chaos that exists at a level that far surpasses the categories of abstract expressionism and other forms of so-called "accidental art."
It is a place where the meaningful and the meaningless can playfully co-exist; where reason and the illogical exist side by side; where the details are always superior to the whole; where chaos is the ultimate order, where everything is flatly composed and only the surface exists like a Japanese print; where opposing sides forever reverse, replace each other and merge.
Conversely, the rules of the world can also be seen as reversals, betrayals, plot twists, double identities, traps, time warps, black holes, rebellions in consciousness, metamorphoses and the big bang.
McCarthy's paintings are shards of paint that exhibit chaos theory as much as they evince the work of Jackson Pollock or Sam Francis' later abstract expressionist works as they do an atomic or subatomic explosion of colors, or pixel dots on a TV screen or camera image, where the laws of cause and effect exist in a digital world.
In a world on the brink of nuclear disarmament, an image of "destroyer" art like John's might be out of fashion going into 2010 because we no longer live in a world seized with the fear of a science fiction-like Armageddon of destruction.
The lust for gratification through destroying and being destroyed leads to a stubborn repetition of crash and redux - like a Tsunami wave from Katsushika Hokusai. Chaos overflows and only the foam remains.
But the most fascinating thing about John F. McCarthy as an artist is the way in which he adheres to his absurd logic, while simultaneously presenting the meaning and the meaninglessness of his art. The reason is this baseball-pitcher painter, this graphic trompe l'oeil of lines has the innate ability to recall the great power of art - where the viewer contributes the meaning most significant to oneself.
This kind of art has the power to change the world in an instant - to re-open the old, sacred circuit that exists in all of us - because although art is the ultimate unknown paradigm - when it is done right - it always triggers an immediate, primeval visual response.
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