NYAB Event - Paula McCartney "Interpreting Nature: A Collection of Artists' Books"

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At Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
Media: Graphics, Photography

I create photographs and photo-based artists' books that explore the intersection of art and science and the idea of constructed landscapes through the collection and creation of natural elements. I'm inspired by natural history illustrations, Victorian botany journals, Audubon's Birds of America and the studies of Karl Blossfeldt. I want the viewer of my books to consider the world that exists within a landscape and the different ways upon which it can be elaborated.

I'm interested in the medium of artists' books because they provide an accessible, personal and intimate experience for the viewer. Books can also act as a contained exhibition that can be viewed and experienced repeatedly without the timing or location limits of a physical exhibition.

Paula McCartney teaches photography and the history of photography at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the College of Visual Arts. She has exhibited her work at Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, which represents her. She has also shown her work at Affirmation Arts in Manhattan, Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis and other venues. In 2010, she won the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, in addition to other grants and fellowships she has been awarded through the years. She earned a M.F.A. in photography from San Francisco Art Institute and a B.F.A. in photography from Empire State College.

To contact the artist:
paulamccartney@yahoo.com | www.paulamccartney.com

[Image: Paula McCartney "Bird Watching" (2006), Edition of 40, hardbound artists' book]

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