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Projects in Oakland. Most recently McCarthy participated in Major Work, curated by Andrew Schoultz at Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, and has also recently participated in Patterned Chaos at Cinders, New York, Off the Grid, curated by Susette Min at EN EM Art Space, Sacramento, Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California at The Oakland Museum of California Art and Pierogi X X: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition at Pierogi in New York. In 2013, McCarthy exhibited in Energy That Is All Around: Mission School with Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, Ruby Neri at the Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University.
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text. Her radiating zigzags, interweaving lines, and stripes of bright colors have a handmade quality that appear as if they are moving with an internal energy. Found objects, text, and spray paint often make their way into these wood surfaces, so that McCarthy's colorful woven patterns and geometric blocks become personalized beyond their shapes. McCarthy's paintings are visually abstract, and yet her deceptively simple motifs — a weave or rainbow, for instance — are deeply personal and her works often include a clue of her personal and physical presence, such as the ring left by a coffee cup, print from a boot or a note written by the artist.
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shared an appreciation for funky cartooning, offbeat social satire, quirky abstraction, folk art and old-fashioned graphic styles. Combining craft/folk art and urban street and graffiti culture, Alicia McCarthy and this
Mission School group of artists cultivated an art style that prized the handmade in an increasingly technologized society. McCarthy's art featured punk messages transformed into poetic and geometric forms.
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McCarthy's work has been shown at the Dallas Museum of Art, the
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McCarthy creates abstract paintings that fuse the aesthetics of
American punk with those of outsider artists (a style sometimes referred to as "urban rustic"). She uses a variety of different kinds of paint (gouache, house paint, spray paint), often on found wood or paper and sometimes including
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Mission School was composed of five artists all born in the late 1960s and living and working in the 1990s in San Francisco's Mission District when it was still a low-rent neighborhood. The artists bonded over punk music, skateboarding, graffiti, queer politics and zine publishing, and they
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