BIO Like blurry afterimages drifting past closed eyelids, Kim McCarty's watercolors depicting adolescent and preadolescent children hover between presence and absence, innocence and wisdom, and past, present, and future. Working rapidly, at times using only a single color and at others a haunting, bruise-inspired palette of acid yellows, greens, and browns, McCarty's portraits evoke the sense of uncertainty, ambivalence, anxiety, and loss with which we view today's generation of children and young adults. A graduate of UCLA (MFA) and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (BFA), McCarty has had recent solo exhibitions at Cherryandmartin, Los Angeles (2006); Briggs Robinson (2005). Recent group exhibitions include LA Emerging Artists, at the Dominique Fiat Gallery, Paris, May 2006. Liquid Los Angeles: Contemporary Watercolor, Pasadena Museum of Art, 2005. Erotic Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut McCarty is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Hammer Museum and the Honolulu Academy of Art.