Nancy McCarthy, The Moon Visits the Fortune Tellers, 2023
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I’m so happy to be returning to my Boston roots and exhibiting work in “The Moon Visits” at the Childs Gallery on Newbury Street this May through July. Guest curated by longtime Childs Gallery artist, Hannah Barrett, this group exhibition of paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, and art objects, celebrating Pride Month through trans, queer female, and other gender identities. The exhibition gathers the artist’s friends and compatriots in a delightfully discordant grouping of enigmatic liaisons, tender moments, quiet scenes, and curious oddities.
Hannah Barrett, the curator describes the exhibition as such:
‘The Moon Visits’ presents the work of eighteen artists of varying degrees of connectedness and weirdness, including artists affiliated with Childs Gallery, based in Boston or nearby, and/or within shared artistic circles. The title is taken from Nancy McCarthy’s painting ‘The Moon Visits the Fortune Tellers,’ a mysterious image in which two flamingos at a table with a crystal ball are joined by a yellow orb. There is a story here as there is behind each object in the show, or in some cases it’s a riddle, a trace, an enigma, a cypher, or a surprise. There are vintage cars, prudes, perverts, ornate and derelict interiors, geometry, astrology, gay constructions, mixed media brews, printed flowers, and of course, flamingos. The moon is a big personality, and it can be a pain, but it’s also a feminist, a witch magnet, the menstrual cycle, all things crazy, a beautiful nightlight, lesbian, queer, and trans.
Mara Baldwin, Hannah Barrett, Tony Bluestone, Deborah Bright, Lizi Brown, Caleb Cole, Opal Ecker DeRuvo, Natalie Hays Hammond, Nancy Haselbacher, Xylor Jane, Catherine Kehoe, E. Lombardo, Nancy McCarthy, Louise Nevelson, RJ Messineo, Laurel Sparks, Shellburne Thurber, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
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Hannah Barrett, the curator describes the exhibition as such:
‘The Moon Visits’ presents the work of eighteen artists of varying degrees of connectedness and weirdness, including artists affiliated with Childs Gallery, based in Boston or nearby, and/or within shared artistic circles. The title is taken from Nancy McCarthy’s painting ‘The Moon Visits the Fortune Tellers,’ a mysterious image in which two flamingos at a table with a crystal ball are joined by a yellow orb. There is a story here as there is behind each object in the show, or in some cases it’s a riddle, a trace, an enigma, a cypher, or a surprise. There are vintage cars, prudes, perverts, ornate and derelict interiors, geometry, astrology, gay constructions, mixed media brews, printed flowers, and of course, flamingos. The moon is a big personality, and it can be a pain, but it’s also a feminist, a witch magnet, the menstrual cycle, all things crazy, a beautiful nightlight, lesbian, queer, and trans.