QUENTIN JAMES MCCAFFREY

ABOUT

Quentin James McCaffrey’s carefully rendered oil on canvas paintings depict interior rooms and halls devoid of figures yet teeming with traces of life. Potted plants, miniature granite busts, mantels, convex mirrors and gilt-framed paintings stand in for missing personages, conjuring histories collected within walls decorated with wallpapers and lined with trim. McCaffrey’s work explores the domestic interior as a spatial palimpsest, a place where memory itself sediments. Here it may seem that time stands still, though delicately composed sunbeams streaking through window frames also mark a specific moment in time.

BIOGRAPHY

Quentin James McCaffrey received a BA from Taylor University in Upland, IN (2009) and an MFA from The New York Academy of Art (2011). He attended The Macedonia Institute Residency in 2022 and is a two time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2020, 2022). He has shown work at Ochi Projects (CA), Moskowitz Bayse (CA), Hesse Flatow Gallery (NY), Marlborough Gallery (NY), Winter Street Gallery (MA), 1969 Gallery (NY), Trestle Gallery (NY), Flowers Gallery (NY), and The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (MD). McCaffrey lives and works in New York.

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