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Laura Holmes McCarthy
Ceramics
Portfolio + Practice
  1. Form + Dysfunction (2024)
  2. The Beck (2023) 
  3. Idle Haus (2024)
  4. Raw Matter (2022)
  5. Deoptimization (2022)
  6. Edition for Mara Hoffman NYC (2022)
  7. Rescue Cats
  8. Instagram
  9. Shop
  10. CV


Advertising and Branding
Creative Direction
  1. CareerBuilder
  2. Cider
  3. Visa “Money is Changing” Y1
  4. Visa “Money is Changing” Y2
  5. Athletic Greens
  6. Google Workspace
  7. RedDrop
  8. UV1 Drumheads
  9. NYXL Guitar Strings
  10. Visa Tap To Pay
  11. El Camino Travel
  12. Tide Vivid White
  13. Additional Clients
  14. Resumé


Laura Holmes McCarthy —
Info
  1. Strategically-minded Group Creative Director with a generative, experimental, and empathetic creative philosophy.
  2. Copywriter by trade, with an expanded focus on brand architecture, brand voice and guidance, and holistic full-funnel advertising approaches.
  3. Emerging ceramic artist with an active practice in downstate NY.
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1. Form + Dysfunction | Super Secret Projects 2024






 On view October 7 - November 2, 2024
          Super Secret Projects presents Form + Dysfunction, a solo exhibition by Laura Holmes McCarthy, showcasing her continued exploration of the limits of functionality through sculptural ceramic vessels.

In Form + Dysfunction, vessels express maladaptation like bodies holding physical memory, informed by McCarthy’s personal history of engaging with productivity as a means of disengaging from grief. Straddling the line between sculptural art and functional objects, each vessel subverts the conventional concept of ‘good design’—which extols a frictionless merger between form and function resulting in objects that succeed in their failure to draw attention to themselves—by purposefully introducing formal disorder as a means of actively forcing the user’s attention. As functional design, they are not so much high-performing as they are high-functioning in spite of their dysfunction. As sculptural pieces, they ask us to interact with the way in which our bodies–often seen as disposable resources within a larger economic framework–cannot escape their innate humanity; revolting through breakdown and reactive adaptation to force us back into acute awareness of our most fundamental self

Work will be on display at the Super Secret Project speakeasy-style gallery, located at 484 Main St, Beacon NY, behind the Hyperbole shop. 
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