PUNCTURE :: Christine McCarty

April 5, 2019

Cunsthaus

The exhibition features McCarty’s new body of drawings that examine the intersections and contradictions of temptation, competition, and irreverence. The pieces feature passive and active depictions of growth and conflict, culling from sources such as plant propagation, mixed martial arts, and weaponry. Through the fetishizing and fusion of these figures and objects, she restructures the them to blur the line between the revered and impure. Lines and layers featuring composite and grafted forms serve to track and dismantle tropes of structure and muscularity and their dispersal across popular culture to reach the apex of danger and sensuality.