Gestural Abstract Paintings
Megan Carty is an accomplished colorist whose artistry is showcased through her dynamic, gestural abstract expressionist paintings. Her pieces feature a brilliant array of bombastic techno-colors and expressive mark-making that draw inspiration from the organic world. Based in the tranquil New England countryside just outside Boston, Carty lives and creates amidst the beauty of nature.
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ABSTRACT PAINTINGS
Browse and purchase from a prestige offering of fresh abstract-expressionist pieces.
About the Artist
Megan Carty (b. 1978) was born in Portland, Maine, U.S.A. and is an accomplished colorist whose artistry is showcased through her dynamic, gestural abstract expressionist paintings. Her pieces feature a brilliant array of bombastic techno-colors and expressive mark-making that draw inspiration from the organic world. Based with her family in the tranquil New England countryside just outside Boston, Megan lives and creates amidst the beauty of nature.
Carty holds a BFA from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts: School of Art & Design. Her abstract art during her ongoing 25 year career thus far has been featured by Anthropologie, CBS Sunday Morning, Minted, Homegoods, In Her Studio Magazine, Artfully Walls, Michaels Crafts, Modern Luxury Interiors Boston Magazine, Artists & Illustrators Magazine, SHLTR, Morning Honey, The Spruce, The Jealous Curator, Maine Home & Design Magazine, Maine Cottage, the Improper Bostonian Magazine, Day’s Jewelers, Chris Loves Julia, The English Room blog, Honey & Fitz Collection, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. Her original paintings reside in private collections in both the USA and internationally. She has exhibited her work in three solo shows. Carty’s paintings can conveniently be purchased directly from the artist via her online gallery, www.megancartyart.com.
Carty offers many options to collect her work via one-of-a-kind original paintings, Giclée prints on fine art paper, and commissioned customized art. She also collaborates well with interior designers and art consultants. All are welcome to visit the Groton, Massachusetts studio by appointment; or she will happily meet you via online chat!
ABSTRACT FLORAL PAINTINGS
Browse and choose from a gorgeous collection of abstract floral paintings made with fine pigments in acrylic and oil pastel.
Abstract Landscape Paintings
Browse and purchase these stunningly unique sculptural abstract landscape paintings that celebrate the majesty of New England’s natural colors.
Fine art Prints
Shop an array of fine art giclée prints of Carty’s most beloved works. There are many sizes on velvet finish fine art paper; framed or unframed.
Artist Statement
My gestural abstract paintings are like carefully composed songs or poetry made visible.
I orchestrate contour lines; their weights and shapes serve as elements in a composition, much like notes that form a melody. I observe the fragility of a linear element as it interacts with blocks of color, creating tender narrative moments.
I purposefully incorporate seemingly empty space as a compositional element that allows the eye and psyche to breathe. My own mind requires ample “white space” to think, germinate ideas, and decompress. Just as in music, the space (or “rests”) around the marks is as important as the marks themselves.
My color choices are instinctual, driven by a yearning for moments of intense, perhaps “loud” saturation juxtaposed with muted, “quiet” neutral tones. We cannot have the quiet without the loud, just as we cannot have light without dark. As these hues dance, they create an energetic vibration—a mood unique to each viewer.
The end result is a one-of-a-kind harmonious visual concerto that is both dynamic and rare.
Welcome!
Megan Carty describes her abstract expressionist paintings as “visual poems that illustrate the human lived experience.” Our inner-beings are both beautiful AND flawed. In our lives’ journeys, we experience celebrations, achievements, love, and joy. In contrast, we also experience losses, injustices, abuses, and sadness. We are both given TO and taken FROM. Carty aims to document this dichotomy of random moments in time using specific colors, open space, and line. She pulls her mark making inspiration from plants and flowers, as they are the ultimate symbols of continuous growth, death, and renewal.