"Skin" is an exhibit of my photographs, curated and displayed by Opalka Gallery, Albany NY.
Mark McCarty’s portraits don’t resemble any being made today. When it seemed that every approach to the person, even the denial of any approach at all, had been exhausted by the camera, McCarty asks that we reconsider what we can know from the picture of another. We can’t seem to dispense with the portrait. Next to landscape photography, it is the genre with the most commercial lineage and the one that has come in for the most scrutiny by contemporary critics and artists.
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Time is McCarty’s ultimate subject. The body lives it but cannot know it. Photography registers it but cannot stop it. These luminous photographs embrace it as our great shared mystery.
Introductory essay “The Body in Time”, by Lyle Rexer
Arm; Jack and MaryKate, 1996
Ernie, 2007
Jack, Saturation Point, 2002
Bobbie with her Doll, from "The Face of Alzheimer's", 2004
Len, 2007
Shower, Florida, 1999
Ruth, 2008
Arms, with Matthew, 1985
Chickenpox, Matt, 1987
Kate’s Head, 1992
Karen, 2010
Vicki and Matt, 1986
Hat, from "The Face of Alzheimer's", 2004
Bath, Matt and Vicki, 1985
Elizabeth, 2008
Freida, from "The Face of Alzheimer's", 2004
Bath, 1985
Bob & Bobbie, from "The Face of Alzheimer's", 2004
Kate and Vicki, 1993
Erika, 2009
Bob, 2008
Kate, Fingers and Toes, 1998
Kate, Loon Lake, 1996
Emilee, 2011
Kiss, Matthew, 1986
MaryKate, Cape Cod, 2011
Miss Ada, 2011
Bath, Kate and Vicki, 1993
Margaret, from “The Face of Alzheimer’s,” 2004
Kate in the Bath, 1996
Troy, 2009
Sock Mark, Loon Lake, 1996
Tub Hug, MaryKate and Jack, 1998
Jean, from "The Face of Alzheimer's", 2004
Liz M, 2009