17 Facts About Alicia McCarthy

Alicia McCarthy was born on 1969 and is an American painter.

Alicia McCarthy is a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement.

Alicia McCarthy's work is considered to have Naive or Folk character, and often uses unconventional media like housepaint, graphite, or other found materials.

Alicia McCarthy received her BFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994; and an MFA degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007.

Alicia McCarthy attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Alicia McCarthy was a key member of the Mission School movement, a punk artistic movement born in San Francisco.

Alicia McCarthy was a member of underground punk and LGBT movements in San Francisco in the early 1990s.

Alicia McCarthy's work, as part of the larger Mission School movement, is a direct response to the Dot-com bubble's effect on San Francisco's urban development.

Alicia McCarthy's art featured punk messages transformed into poetic and geometric forms.

Alicia McCarthy creates abstract paintings that fuse the aesthetics of American punk with those of outsider artists.

Alicia McCarthy uses a variety of different kinds of paint, often on found wood or paper and sometimes including text.

Alicia McCarthy's radiating zigzags, interweaving lines, and stripes of bright colors have a handmade quality that appear as if they are moving with an internal energy.

Alicia McCarthy is best known for her weave paintings, in which multi-colored lines weave together.

Alicia McCarthy is known for her series of color wheels, composed of shattered and interlocking arcs of color.

In 2018, Alicia McCarthy painted her largest-to-date mural on the side of the Proper Hotel in the Tenderloin District.

Alicia McCarthy's work has been shown at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Center, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Alicia McCarthy's work was featured at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in July 2017.