5/15: SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS new works by LYDIA ANNE MCCARTHY

SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS
new works by LYDIA ANNE MCCARTHY

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 15, 4-8
Open Hours: Monday, May 16, noon-4

ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street

…I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

-from No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS reveals Lydia Anne McCarthy’s obsession with how we perceive and experience reality.  The photographs on display are visions, flashes, and hallucinations of moments from the past.  Each image vibrates with the thin traces of memory and attempts to gain access to the archive of the unconscious.  The lens of this camera has the ability to simultaneously mutate and beautify; it creates a flickering vortex of darkness and light.  The artist is asking both the viewer and herself: what do you at once desire and fear?  And how does this alter your perception of the world?

LYDIA ANNE MCCARTHY is a North Carolina-based photographer.  In 2010 Lydia was chosen as a winner of Joerg Colberg’s Conscientious Portfolio Prize by Elisabeth Biondi, Visuals Editor of the New Yorker and her work has been published in the JSBJ’s Bruit de Fond and the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward-Emerging Photographers 2010.  She recently received a fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and will have a solo exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in July of 2011.  Lydia received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 2004 and an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2011.

More information about Lydia Anne McCarthy can be found at www.lydiamccarthy.com