PRESS

"This menagerie of misfit toys inspires childhood nostalgia, the inherent wonder of smooth, shiny objects and a sense of something darkly animate lurking underneath — just waiting to be 'unearthed.'"

- Brangien Davis

"If you're still feeling bitter that you didn't receive a Furby for Christmas in '98, I recommend Cathy McClure's exhibition Unearth for some strange catharsis."

- Lindsay Costello 

🫶 CUTE OR CREEPY? 🫶

Seattle’s Traver Gallery hosts artist Cathy McClure and her metal Mickeys until the end of September. Stop by the internationally recognized downtown gallery to see McClure’s unconventional metal designs—and pick up a few dance moves from the robot on the last clip 🤖 🕺🏻

📍 Traver Gallery: 110 Union St, Seattle
⏰ Open Tues - Fri @ 10 am - 6 pm, Sat @ 10 am - 5 pm
📅 “Cathy McClure: Unearth” ~ On now thru September 30th

"Seattle-based artist Cathy McClure tears open plush toys to reveal the beautiful robotic innards hidden beneath them." 

- Video by Lauren Frohne

"If visual magic is her goal, McClure is 100 percent successful. Her three installations using motion, light and sound are astonishing, a visual and aural three-ring circus that scares and delights equally. They are so effective that they could bring even a curmudgeon to a state of childlike wonder." 

- David Bonetti

"If the movie Mad Max had had a toyshop, these half-whimsical, half-disturbing animals would have fit right in." 

- Pilar Vilades

"Her process for creating the bots is deceptively simple — by taking the fur off of the battery-powered toy animals and recasting them in silver or bronze, McClure can reassemble them into little metallic clanking gargoyles. 

- Laura Hutson

"McClure beautifully fabricates this kind of in-between state; we want to decipher the mechanics of her contraptions even while we long to lose ourselves in the fantasy." 

- Gayle Clemans

"The cotton wool flew.  

“We’re getting down into the guts of the piece,” she said.  

Poor little thing, I said.  

She gave an explosive giggle.  

“Not poor little thing! I prefer to see them as liberated,” she said." 

- Anthony Haden Guest