In the last few years Alicia McCarthy has been recognized with solo exhibitions at such well known galleries as John Berggruen and Jack Hanley as well as large public commissions including the entire side of the Proper Hotel in San Francisco and the new graduate studio for the San Francisco Art Institute at Fort Mason. She worked on a project at Paulson Fontaine Press in 2019, and had this to say about the experience, “I came in here wanting to do something smaller, because my last prints were so big. But, again, I come to listen. I’ve been working with a lot more space in the last year or so. This time, I’m going to leave with ideas I get to bring back to the studio.”