The atmospheric interiors of restaurants and bars are the focus of McCormick’s increasingly psychological examination of isolated individuals. Seductive visual elements portray feelings of alienation associated with contemporary urban life. These paintings address the pause between moments of possible dramatic action. McCormick’s capacity for minute description disguises a more private vision. Neither romantic nor glamorous, his closely observed naturalism has a capacity to arrest our attention and persuade us to share both his fascination with objects and the latent content. While McCormick’s work, with it’s obvious technical virtuosity, has remained aloof from any modernist mold, it deserves close scrutiny, going beyond the visual content of his chosen subjects to the nature of contemporary relationships.

MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, New York
Newark Museum, New Jersey
The University of Southern Illinois
Jesse Besser Museum, Michigan
Charles B Goddard Art Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma
Griffith Art Center, Canton, Ohio
Canton Art Institute, Canton Ohio
Charles Rand Penny Foundation, NYC
Mr. Mel Brooks and Ms. Anne Bancroft
Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Fairleigh Dickonson University, Rutherford, NY
Syracuse University Collection, Syracuse, NY
Vatican Collection, Rome, Italy
St Mary’s College of Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Wichita State University Collection, Kansas
American Thermoplastic company, Pittsburgh PA
Senator Ted Kennedy

Born: New Jersey, June 12, 1942

Education: Self taught painter, Studied etching Pratt Institute

 

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