Marianne McCarthy

Marianne is a photo-based multimedia artist who is interested in the invisible connections between all things. A native New Yorker, McCarthy holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and exhibits regularly in galleries throughout the city.

“The nature of a darkroom in many ways mirrors a traditional séance parlour. Shielded from external light, and dimly illuminated from within; both are liminal spaces where a productive atmosphere can be destroyed in an instant by the presence of white light.”

Tranceducers includes examples from Marianne’s Nuntium Series which she describes as exercises in surrender and precision.

“These experiments were undertaken to explore the question of how water might hold and
transfers formation. When in a trance state, the patterns and atmospheres I experience feel
very much Ike non-linguistc information to me. Although I don’t retain a rational, conscious
understanding of much in this ‘data’ most of my work involves an attempt to visually describe
it.

The water used in the marbling phase of each piece was either rainwater or moonwater and
charged during a trance state with the intention to transfer information. Additional handwork
and collaged elements were added to describe the more graphic aspect of the information received, such as lines and dots etc. which are common to the broader body of my work.

I have noticed that there is often a barely controllable aspect to my work in this case marbling existing beside a very precise and controlled aspect in this case the fines and dots and this feels very important to the resonance ef the piece. It feels like a condition that must be met in order for the magic to happen – the connection to something other than myself to be mantained.” Marianne McCarthy 2025

For more information on Marianne McCarthy visit her website MarianneMcCarthy.net

Selected exhibitions:

2025 Tranceducers: Art of Visionaries, Mediums and Automatists at the GPS Gallery in Soho, London
2025 Centering the Veil at The Gallery at 310 Riverside Drive in New York
2023 Lines and Other Forms at the Dodomu Gallery
2023 Creative License at Art Fluent
2023 Gratification at Treat Gallery, New York
2023 Sonic Expressions at the Prescott Gallery in Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ
2023 The Inevitability of Absence at Culture Lab’s Plaxall Gallery, Queens, New York
2023 Inner Sense at Treat Gallery, New York
2023 Who Are We? at the The Spence Gallery, New York
2022 Creative Spirits at the The College of Psychic Studies, London
2022 Behind The Eye at Cold Air Fine Art
2021 Emergence at Old Frog Pond Farm Sculpture Park and Studio, Harvard, MA
2015 After Image: Contemporary Artists and Photography at Art House
2014 Terra Incognita with Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2010 The Ecstatic with Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2009 In Your Dreams at Pen and Brush, NY
2008 Midnight Oils at STACArts: Mills Pond House, St. James, NY
2008 Between Worlds with Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Small Rays of Hope/Fragments of a Larger Idea at the Rhonda Schaller Gallery, New York
2007 Nature House (May-June) – Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Exposures and Entities – Art League of Long Island at The Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY