Paula McCartney

Paula McCartney (American, b. 1971) Bird Watching (Aqua Tanager) 2004 C-print 10 x 10 inch image on 11 x 14 inch paper Signed edition of 50 Paula McCartney’s densely wooded landscapes are enlivened, ironically, by brightly colored craft store songbirds. While the deceit is more obvious in some pictures than others, what bears noticing is how these faux fowl punctuate their environments both as formal elements carefully arranged amid the arc and curve of brush and branches, and as a curious construction that offers an idealized vision of nature undercut by the gentle satire of that ideal.McCartney’s studies include a Certificate in Photography from the International Center of Photography, New York (1996), a BFA from Empire State College, New York (1998), and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, California (2002). She is the recipient of a 2007/08 McKnight Photography Fellowship and a 2004 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant. Recent solo exhibitions i