William McCarthy Fine Art



	"Each of these luminous and mysterious images of trees against sky, field, and river evoke a subtle variation of light and atmosphere. The arrangement of the trees - whether standing in solitude or in pairs or in large groupings seem at once inevitable and yet surprising, formal yet accidental. All of these paintings are comprised from memory, imagination and thumbnail sketches from my beautiful basement studio in my home in Connecticut. I work on wood board, paper and canvas using several layers of gesso before priming the surface with cadmium red base, a quick sketch using charcoal is used to lay out the design then the paint is applied. I work in layers using thinned down oil color, building on these layers with glazing techniques the colors are adjusted and brought up to completion before final coats of varnish are applied. Light has come to play an important part, and when I look back over this body of work, I feel it speaks about spiritual places, places that contain a quiet inner light, radiating an ethereal whisper, the places we see every day." - William McCarthy
Career Highlights SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS October 2012 Center for Contemporary Printmaking 2011 Sandra Morgan Interiors, Greenwich, CT 2011 Muse Gallery, Columbus, OH 2010 Red Raven Gallery, Lancaster, PA 2010 Wynn- Falconer Gallery, Chatham, MA 2009 Kelher Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT 2008 EBK Gallery, West Hartford, CT 2007 Amuse Gallery Columbus, OH 2007 Willoughby Wallace Library Branford, CT 2006 A Muse Gallery Columbus, OH 2004 Artistically Bent Columbus, OH 2004 Premiere Fine Arts, New Hope, PA Trudy LaBell Fine Arts, Naples,FL 2004 Middlesex Community College, Middletown,CT Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT Langman Gallery, Willow Grove, PA Trudy LaBelle Fine Arts, Naples, FL Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Sandra Morgan Interiors, Greenwich, CT 2011 Senator Joseph Libermans Office, Washington D.C 2010 Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT 2010 Patterson Club, Permanent Display, Fairfield, CT 2008 Hartford Golf Club, Permanent Display, West Hartford, CT 2005 Ritz Carlton, Permanent Display, Washington D.C 2004 Gallery 125, All Things Same, New Haven, Ct 2003 Citywide Open Studios, New Haven, Connecticut 2002 Center for Contemporary Art, Norwalk, Connecticut 2001 Premiere Fine Arts, Lambertville, New Jersey 2001 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut 2000 Albers Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee 1998 DFN Gallery, New York, New York 1998 Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, New York 1998 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts COLLECTIONS Mayo Clinic, Transplant Wing, Rochester, Minnesota Bell Haven Club, Greenwich, Connecticut Ritz Carlton, Washington, D. C. Cirque du Soleil, Las Vegas, Nevada Hartford Golf Club, West Hartford, Connecticut Patterson Club, Fairfield, Connecticut Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middeltown, Connecticut Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut New York Public Library, New York, New York PUBLICATIONS Primi Pensieri, Collection of First Thoughts, 2012 "Days of Wonder", Collection of recent work, 2011 2009 New Haven Register, Arts Review 2006 American Artist Magazine Feature Article, "Discovering Art in Memories" 2004 The Art Guide 2002 American Bungalow 2002 – 2003 Pottery Barn Catalog 2001 Florida Design Magazine 2000 Chamber Music Magazine 1996 Investing in Dreams, Connecticut Commission on the Arts Statewide Museum Collection AWARDS 2011 First Place for Painting, Westport Fine Art Show 2010 First Place Painting, Boca Raton Art Museum Show, Boca Raton, Florida 2009, Painting Award, Armonk art Festival, Armonk, NY 2008, Painting First Place, St. Stephens Art Festival, Coconut Grove, FL 2006 & 2007, Judges’ Choice, Mt Gretna Outdoor Art Show, Mt Gretna, PA 2006 First Prize for Painting, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut 2006 First Prize for Painting, Glastonbury On the Green Fine Art & Craft Show, Connecticut 2005 Best in Show, Fine Art, Fine Furnishings Show, Providence, Rhode Island 2005 First Prize, Painting, Armonk Outdoor Art Festival, Armonk, New York 2005 Best in Show, Columbus Art Festival, Columbus, Ohio 2002 First Place in Oil, Glastonbury On the Green Fine Art & Craft Show, Connecticut 2002 Best in Show, WCSH Sidewalk Art Festival, Portland, Maine 2002 Jurors Choice Award, Columbus Art Festival, Columbus, Ohio GRANTS & RESIDENCIES 2010/2011, Invited Artist Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT 2007, Guest Artist Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT 2005/2006, Guest Artist Center for contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT 2003 – 2004 Guest Artist, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut 2001 – 2002 Weir Farm Residence for Visual Artist, Wilton, Connecticut 1994 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant EDUCATION 1988 – 1994 Wesleyan University, Various Graduate Liberal Studies in Printmaking 1970 – 1972 Columbus College of Art and Design, Received Scholarship DATE OF BIRTH – October 25, 1951

Career Highlights