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catherine macmahon

Catherine MacMahon's work lives in productive contradiction. Craft material and industrial material. Fragility pushed until it transforms. She submerges paper in dye baths, risking dissolution to achieve transformation; she wraps unraveled canvas threads around metal rods, undoing one structure to build another. Moving fluidly between architecture, art, and design, her practice brings dye, weaving, stitching, and basketry into conversation with steel, brick, wood, and plaster, not as opposites but as shared vocabulary for questioning the stories we tell about strength, labor, and beauty, and which kinds of making we decide to value.

MacMahon has a Master of Fine Arts degree from California College of the Arts and undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and from the McCombs School of Business. She has attended the Textile Society of America Study Tour, "Fibers of Japan," in Japan with Yoshiko I. Wada. She has participated in the Gallery Lab Program and in The Great Create both at The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. MacMahon's work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, Dieu Donne, and The Wassaic Project in New York; Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Barry Whistler Gallery, and Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX. She will be included in an upcoming drawing exhibition at Women and Their Work in Austin, Texas, and in a group show this spring at Kelly-McKenna Gallery in New Jersey. She currently lives and works in Dallas, TX.

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