April 28th - June 10th 2023
Gallery Hours: 24/7
miniMAC (miniature Mount Airy Contemporary)
25 West Mt Airy Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19119
www.mountairycontemporary.com
miniMAC is pleased to announce Out of this World, an exhibition of works by Caroline Santa and Kellianne McCarthy. Both artists have a personal visual vocabulary from which they construct provisional spaces and worlds.
Caroline Santa (https://carolinesanta.com/ cuts apart her drawings and paintings, subtracting the language that is no longer relevant to her practice, and surveys the remnants. The studio walls are like one paragraph of many interchangeable words. Like written language, different arrangements of these units form alternate meanings.
Kellianne McCarthy (https://kelliannemccarthy.com/ wants to evoke a feeling of place where the elements of the world we know meet bizarre, reverent spaces that make dream sense: Strange, opulent worlds with relentless stripes, patterns, flowers and colors that are lavish and startling. Psychedelic color, references to spaceships, supernovas, pulsars and the spaces they occupy are meant to be welcoming but unpredictable.
Caroline Santa is a mixed-media artist based in Philadelphia. She earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Delaware. Her work utilizes drawing and painting on paper, fabric, and other materials in a spontaneous manner which often becomes sculptural and performative. She has exhibited her work throughout the northeast in galleries in Philadelphia and New York, as well as in San Antonio, TX at The Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. Internationally, Caroline was an artist in residence at the Lucy Tejada Center of Culture in Pereira, Colombia, where she also exhibited her work. Caroline is a co-founder of the network of art spaces, Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Caroline has collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing and composer Joshua Stamper to create a multimedia installation in The Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia’s largest uninterrupted gallery space. She teaches at Germantown Friends School.
Kellianne McCarthy works with oil, acrylic, and collage on wood panels. She is known for her saturated color palette and blend of imagery, abstraction, and pattern. She uses those elements to create spaces where the concrete and surreal meet. Influences filtered into her work include the graphic design of Peter Max, the altar pieces produced during the Renaissance, and the ungraspable vastness of the universe. She was born in Philadelphia, PA. She received a BFA in Painting from Moore College of Art and Design in 1992. She is a RN currently working in Philadelphia.
miniMAC is a project of MAC (Mount Airy Contemporary). MAC has been curating shows in northwest Philadelphia since 2009.
