Works — Laura Alma McCarthy

Artist Statement

The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke writes that all things are “gestation and bringing forth” - that those outward things that we love, are excited about, that we mourn, or long for are recognized by us only because they have been with us growing in the dark, unseen places in our souls that nurture and nourish the moments that make up our lives before they are even known to us. I consider all my paintings to be Momentos - memories of a moment. In these internal landscapes that I paint, I try to capture those alchemical moments where our souls are molding the raw ingredients that will come forth to create the moments of our lives and the people we become.

Cipher

30”x30”

Tar and Oil on Canvas

Ripples and Dunes

14"x22"

Tar and Oil on Canvas

The Illusion Makes It Seem Real

The Illusion Makes It Seem Real

The Illusion Makes It Seem Real

14”x22”

Tar, Oil on Canvas

Brancha

5' x 5'

Tar and Oil on Canvas

Interstate Cove

5' x 5'

Tar and Oil on Canvas

Interstate Cove.jpeg

Interstate Cove (Detail)

Interstate Cove (Detail)

Our Passions Are Uncharted

5' x5'

Tar and Oil on Canvas

Our passions are uncharted.jpeg

Our Passions Are Uncharted (Detail)

Our Passions Are Uncharted (Detail)

Falling up

30"x30"

Tar and Oil on Linen

Falling Up.jpeg

An Immense World

30" x 30"

Tar and Oil on Linen

An Immense World.jpeg

The Mind on Fire

30" x 30"

Tar and Oil on Linen

The Mind on Fire.jpeg

Remnant Series

Tar and Oil on Paper (Framed)

Series of 3

@ 32'x25' (Each)

Remnant #2

Remnant #3

The Shadow of Sunlight is Blue

Series of 6

Tar, Oil, and Graphite on Panel

8" x 10" /Ea

War Beaten Back By Apocalypse

5'x8'

Tar and Oil on Canvas

The Pale Light of an Insufficient Answer

6'x6'

Tar and Oil on Canvas

Maybe the Dead Weight of my Arm is a Wing

4'x6'

Tar, Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas

No Sense Where the Edges Are

4'x6'

Tar, Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas

The Space Between my Bones

4'x4'

Tar, Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas

What Becomes Beautiful is the Wildest Thing

42"x60"

Tar, Oil on Paper

The Concession Science Makes to Faith

30"x42"

Tar, Oil on Paper

All the Things the Light Makes

2'x3'

Tar and Oil on Canvas

Stay

12"x12"

Tar and Oil on Canvas

Yamoto Takeru-No-Mikoto

Tar, Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas

6'x6' (Diptych)

Yamoto Takeru-No-Mikoto

Yamoto Takeru-No-Mikoto

6' x6'

Tar and Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas

In the Absence of the Breath

Tar and Oil on Canvas

3'x9' (Triptych)

Works on Paper

The Remnant series is a group of tar and oil works on paper.

Installations

power and electric.jpg

#2 Yesterday,Yesterday.jpg

#1 Rational and poetic.jpg

Rational and Poetic detail.jpg

#13 Brown Vessels.jpg

#10 Where the Sidewalk....JPG

The Ties That Bind Install.jpg

Ties detail 3.jpg

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Ripples and Dunes

The Illusion Makes It Seem Real

The Illusion Makes It Seem Real

Interstate Cove

Our Passions Are Uncharted

An Immense World

The Mind on Fire

The Shadow of Sunlight is Blue

War Beaten Back By Apocalypse

The Pale Light of an Insufficient Answer

Maybe the Dead Weight of my Arm is a Wing

No Sense Where the Edges Are

The Space Between my Bones

What Becomes Beautiful is the Wildest Thing

The Concession Science Makes to Faith

All the Things the Light Makes

Yamoto Takeru-No-Mikoto

Yamoto Takeru-No-Mikoto

In the Absence of the Breath