Bear Creek Redwoods (Santa Cruz, CA / Awaswas Ohlone)
acrylic on canvas 
92×48 inches
2021

Little Yosemite (Sunol, CA/Ohlone)
acrylic on canvas
72×42 inches
2021

In their work, Catherine Wang McMahon explores relationships and structures that exist outside of oneself. Both the pandemic and environmental disasters inspired them to get outside and discover a deepening connection to the natural world, one that they celebrate in their large-scale vertical landscapes. McMahon’s depictions of the lands around their home are soothing and softened, with bright colors that capture nature in its ideal state: undamaged and whole. They invite the viewer to enter and appreciate this fast disappearing world.

Catherine Wang McMahon’s work appears in Retro/Intro.