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Art Paul McCarthy: Low Life Slow Life: Part 1

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Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass multitudes of styles, skewering the artist's own cultural clout (Painter, 1995), depicting his friend's head and a bowl of white goo (Family Tyranny, 1987), and knocking large-scale sculpture on its derrière (Santa Claus with a Buttplug, 2007). For Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 1, CCA's Wattis Institute had the artist curate an exhibition of work — his own and others' — that he considered significant to his early-period career in the '60s and '70s.

– Nicholas Nauman

Note: An opening reception for this exhibition takes place on Thur Feb 7 (6-8pm).

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