Kirk McCarthy’s work intends to provide a contemplative haptic experience that suggests or evokes the processes and shifts in consciousness that can occur as one encounters the world in unexpected ways. The mundane and the sublime rub up against each other in constant flux. Experimental combinations of objects, materials, and speculative associations engage our sense of how reality is potentially altered through proprioception and sensory intelligence.

Phase Shifts and Other Probabilities is a mixed media exhibition in which a complex linear structure inhabits one of the doorways to the gallery and snakes into the central space via connections to the walls, floor, and ceiling. Translucent multicolored rubber pours, plus found and hand made objects are interspersed and draped throughout the installation.