Paula McCartney
Yellow Sweater, 2016
11 x 8½" Archival pigment print6½ x 6½" Image size
Edition of 22
Each print is editioned and signed by the artist.
About the Image
Wrapped in bright yellow optimism in a dark uncertain environment, this self-portrait represents a reflection on the dualities in life that I explore in my series Hide the Sun.
Artist Bio
Paula McCartney makes artist books, photographs, and ceramics that illustrate her collaborations with the natural world and consider ways that light activates both objects and environments.
She has received fellowships in both Artist Books and Photography from the McKnight Foundation and grants from Women’s Studio Workshop, the Aaron Siskind Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board, and was an artist in residence at The Hambidge Center and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
McCartney’s photographs have been exhibited nationally in exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Her books are included in the artist book collections of the Walker Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University, Getty Research Institute, New York Public Library among many others. She has two published monographs Bird Watching and A Field Guide to Snow and Ice.
She holds an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and a certificate in Creative Studies from the International Center for Photography.