LIZ MCCARTHY: WAX / WANE
@ ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Sunday, November 6th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Monday, November 7th
WAX / WANE is a collection of images exploring personal connection to the moon and its cyclical time. This body of work consists of photographs of the full moon with interpretive drawing on the surface and twelve drawings illustrating the artist’s association to each full moon that occurred this year, based on the Algonquin and Farmer’s Almanac moon calendars.
This work began as a prescribed obsession. A few years ago, after advice from a doctor to “pay attention to the moon,” Liz McCarthy began researching, contemplating, watching, and documenting the reflecting orb that punctuates the Earth’s night sky. Mimicking thousands of years of human instinct to create moon mythology, McCarthy uses photography and drawing to document her own personal relationship to lunar magnetism. In our urban society, surrounded by buildings and pavement, culture is less attached to the natural forces that have so much effect on both our surroundings and physical bodies. McCarthy seeks to emphasize the act of looking up and acknowledging the moon and its constant changing phases.
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LIZ MCCARTHY is an artist based out of the Pilsen neighborhood. She moved to Chicago two years ago from North Carolina to help found Roxaboxen Exhibitions gallery and studio co-operative. She balances her art practice with her role at Roxaboxen as co-director and curator. Most of her work is made through a process of combining photography with mixed media to document her perception of time and place and its relationship to identity.
More information about Liz McCarthy can be found at liz-mccarthy.com
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