Love Potion: Kim McCarty, Mona Kuhn, Roger Herman

CULVER CITY, Calif. - Dec. 19, 2015 - PRLog -- Maloney Fine Art is pleased to present Love Potions, an exhibition of watercolors, photographs and ceramic sculpture by Kim McCarty, Mona Kuhn and Roger Herman.  Three kindred spirits, each artist explores timeless themes of vulnerability, intimacy and desire in their respective mediums.

One of the unifying concepts represented in this exhibition is a transition from Sentiment to Form.  While Kim McCarty watercolors reveal the form from which life evolves, Mona Kuhn’s photographs seduce and expose the intimacy of her subjects and Roger Herman’s ceramic vessels transform the sensual into tactile objects.

Each artist is united by a common desire to allure and discover.

Kim McCarty is known for her watercolors of youthful, androgynous figures, in a moment of transition. McCarty creates her own species of “painfully sweet” creatures—both animal and human—as apparitions staring back at us. Some of the works appear like shrouds, saintly heads floating in space, an ethereal homage of artworks past, and perhaps the artist herself.

A graduate of UCLA (MFA) and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (BFA), Kim McCarty lives and works in Los Angeles, California and New York City.

Mona Kuhn is best known for her large-scale, dream-like photographs of the human form. Her photographs often reference classical themes with a light and insightful touch.  Kuhn’s approach to her photography is unusual in that she usually develops close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable naturalness and intimacy, and creating the effect of people naked but comfortable in their own skin.

Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. She received her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.  She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Roger Herman, a German painter and ceramic artist, has lived and worked in California since the late seventies. Influenced by expressionism, Herman’s work is also highly referential, drawing on his art historical knowledge and generous sense of humor. With a focus on the female form here, Herman concentrates on the paint itself, saying of his process, “the subject is always painting.”

Roger Herman has shown widely in the United States and Europe and is represented by Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, where he is exhibiting new work through the month of January.  Herman has been on faculty for the department of painting and drawing at UCLA since 1990.

Each artist has concurrent exhibitions on view in Los Angeles