Lisa McCarty

Artist Statement

Photographer and printmaker Lisa McCarty uses cameras and photographic processes with technical limitations in order to examine the subjectivity of photographic fidelity as well as the neurological processes that govern sight and cognition.

She deliberately restricts her control over the exposure, focus, and clarity of her images in order to reflect the lack of control we have over the brain functions that interpret visual information and thus shapes our reality.

Additionally, McCarty’s work deals with the gap between what is captured in a photograph versus what is actually seen, experienced, and remembered. To this end she often alters images of her own making by means of transfer, layering, and collage. This disorganizing or re-orienting of photographic information is also an attempt to recall the abstractions of light and form from which sight originates.

Biography

Lisa McCarty received her BFA in Studio Art with an Art History Minor from George Mason University in 2005 graduating Magna Cum Laude. Lisa has also attended the School of the Visual Arts Summer Residency Program in Painting and Mixed Media in New York in 2006 and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Post-Baccalaureate Summer Studio Program in Painting and Printmaking in 2007. She is a Resident Artist at Arlington Arts Center and has exhibited her work in numerous shows on the local and national level.