Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to announce Alicia McCarthy’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will feature McCarthy’s latest paintings, characterized by her unique visual language of twisted knots, intertwined arcs, and hourglass shapes in streams of color.

McCarthy’s abstract compositions are imbued with energy and merge intricate tapestry-like patterns with raw painterly gestures, luring viewers into a labyrinth of lines. Her distinctive handmade quality is evident by her frequent use of found wood surfaces and through various media, including pencil, soft pastel, Flashe paint, latex, and spray paint.

The surfaces of her works reveal their history through remnants of paint drips, pencil marks, splashes, smears, and spray paint traces, embodying an immediate, intimate connection between the artist and her practice. Her approach balances chance with control, order with chaos, and a confident embrace of imperfection.

Alicia McCarthy (b. 1969) lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007. McCarthy has widely exhibited across America and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, OH, at SFMoMA as part of the SECA Award show and the Berkeley Art Museum. McCarthy has received numerous accolades and residencies, most notably from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, Headland Arts Center and New Langton Art, San Francisco. Public collections with works by the artist include: MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels, American Academy of Arts & Letters in New York City, Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, CA and Oakland Museum of California.