Nancy McCarthy / Catherine McCarthy / Fay Shutzer
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 15, 4pm - 6pm
Nancy McCarthy is a painter based in Rehoboth, MA. Recent exhibitions include “Flora,” at First Street Gallery, NYC and “Blooming” and the “In, Of, On Paper'' shows at There Gallery, NYC. Awards include Visiting Artist, Beijing Royal School; residency at Inside Out Museum, Beijing; a St. Botolph Foundation Award; Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant; and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. Her work is represented by the Larkin Gallery, Provincetown, MA and Zeuxis, NYC. She teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA. and is co-owner of Black Pond Studio, Rehoboth, MA. nancymccarthypainting.com
Catherine McCarthy is a Boston based painter with an extensive exhibition history. She has been featured in 24 solo exhibitions including at the MFA in Boston, the Kemper Art Museum in Kansas City, the San Jose Art Museum, and the Knoxville Art Museum. She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including at the Harvard University Museum and the Rose Art Museum, among others.Her paintings are in the collections of the MFA, Boston, the Kemper Art Museum, the Rose Art Museum, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, as well as many corporate and private collections.In 2024 her work will be featured in shows including at the PAAM, as a Lillian Orlowsky William Freed award winner, and at the Fitchburg Art Museum in the exhibition “In Her Own Terms: Feminine Power Embodied.Catherine’s work has been reviewed by Art In America, Artforum, The Boston Globe,San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, and The New York Times as well as featured in Oxford American, Arts and Antiques, Audubon, Boston Magazine, The Denver Post, and Art New England.She studied at The Ruskin School at Oxford University and received her BFA from Mass College of Art.
Check out Catherine’s workshop at Castle Hill!
Fay Shutzer, trained and licensed as a psychologist, had always longed to express herself through art from childhood on. An exhibit of her drawings in a youth art show led to a summer job drawing portraits in a restaurant. Yet, in college, though captivated by her studio art classes, she majored in psychology. “I saw myself as ‘artistic’ but not as an artist. Looking back, I wonder how I made the distinction. “ After spending time on Cape Cod, where she was inspired by the landscape, the light and the art community, Fay became a student of Provincetown artist, Ann Packard. Training continued at the Art Students League in New York. Her landscapes reflect her New England roots and her passion for light on rural buildings, although as a resident of New York City, there is a place for cityscapes as welll. Fay is currently intrigued by the immediacy of plein air painting. Her work, exhibited at the Left Bank Gallery in Wellfleet, the Gallery of Graphic Arts in New York City, and as a guest artist at the Addison Gallery in Orleans. has been juried into numerous shows and competitions.