NADA MIAMI
Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136

Solo presentation with Caitlin MacBride
Booth B111

VIP Preview:
Tuesday, December 3, 10am–4pm

Open to the Public:
Tuesday, December 3, 4–7pm
Wednesday, December 4, 11am–7pm
Thursday, December 5, 11am–7pm
Friday, December 6, 11am–7pm
Saturday, December 7, 11am–6pm

Deanna Evans Projects is excited to present a solo presentation of paintings by Caitlin MacBride, an artist based in Hudson, New York, who engages material culture and artifacts in an exploration of labor and desire. Her works balance various languages of painting with the structures of utilitarian objects sourced from museum archives. This body of work diverges from her usual theme of American craft and focuses on a new topic of ocular technology, which looks at scientific progress through medical objects. Continuing her interest in museum archives, the works explore material culture from the Museum of The Eye in San Francisco and the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia via early iterations of the phoropter, ophthalmoscope, eye charts, and more.

These paintings use techniques such as color theory, double vision, optical illusions, and blurred effects to create a conversation that engages both art history and visual perception. This new body of work feels more personal to MacBride in that it connects to her early experiences with the medical industry. She went cross eyed at age 4 and underwent many tests and interventions until eventually having her vision corrected with an operation. Many of the objects in the paintings are familiar from her childhood - even if they date from decades earlier.

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Caitlin MacBride is an artist based in Hudson, NY. Her work engages material culture and artifacts in an exploration of labor, desire, and belief systems. MacBride’s paintings balance various languages of painting with the structures of utilitarian objects sourced from museum archives. MacBride has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. She has shown at Deanna Evans Projects, Moskowitz Bayse, Fisher Parrish, Chapter NY, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, Real Fine Arts, Greene Naftali, Zach Feuer, Jack Barrett Gallery, Hesse Flatow, The Shaker Museum, and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein among others. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Art Forum, New York Magazine, and Vogue.com. She is currently the Co-Chair of Painting for the MFA Program at Bard College.