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About MARGUERITE MOREAU MCCARTHY
the
Artist &
the Marguerite Moreau McCarthy’s oil paintings celebrate the often-
overlooked beauty of light, shadow, reflection and refraction seen in
Work commonplace objects. As a painter, she manipulates color, line, and
form to echo the symbiotic relationship she observes between the
mundane and the divine.
Mothers’ Day Bouquet explores the emotional impact of a gift of flowers
through textural layers of paint, embellished with gestural sgraffito
drawing. The overlapping patches of color reveal dancing shadows and
highlights in this joyful work.
McCarthy invites quiet introspection with Apples and Pitcher, layering
richly colored brushstrokes to expose a quiet stillness and reverence for
surface qualities of this piece’s elements of fruit, glass, and wood.
In Teatime, the artist interprets the properties of light with casually
placed objects on a marble table. Here, she applies thick paint as well
as engraved lines to describe variations in hue, intensity, and value in
this arrangement.
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