Catherine MacMahon, Thresholds of Uncertainty, Installation view, 2022. Photo by Kevin Todora.
LIVES AND WORKS IN DALLAS, TEXAS.
Catherine MacMahon’s installations, sculptures, and drawings embody universal themes of memory, repetition, and form. There is a sense of in-betweenness in MacMahon’s work. Though neither figurative nor narrative she suggests abstract liminal states, which question polarities, certitude, or fixed narratives, in favor of delicate deviances. Her practice involves the exploration of and sometimes rejection of the feminine identity ascribed to materials and structures. She rigorously challenges what constitutes an interior space, how that is formed, and what social constructs are latent within it.
MacMahon received her Master of Fine Arts degree from California College of the Arts in San Francisco (2006) and was an All-College Honors Award recipient. She completed a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (2002) where she received several endowed scholarships and awards. In 2006, she attended the Textile Society of America Study Tour “Fibers of 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, and Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, TX. And in 2019, MacMahon debuted her first solo show, LINES, at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX. MacMahon currently lives and works in Dallas, TX.
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