About This Lot
Contemporary artist Kim McCarty is best known for her delicate watercolor portraits of young, unclothed men and women. Inspired by transparency, the artist builds layers of monochromatic hues using a wet-on-wet technique to dramatize her portraits’ blurred, afterimage effects. “I wish to convey the transitory and emergent state,” The artist has said, “The watercolor is so translucent that the medium expresses both flaws and perfection.” Born in 1956 in Los Angeles, McCarty spent a majority of her young life in Geneva, Switzerland. She later returned to Los Angeles, and in 1980, she received her Bachelor of Arts at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in California. In 1988, she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles, and she was included in