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EXHIBITIONS

USA

BOSTON

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Until 22 February

Truth and Beauty:

Pictorialist Photography

mfa.org

LOS ANGELES

ANNENBERG SPACE FOR

PHOTOGRAPHY

Until 3 May

Sink or Swim:

Designing for a Sea of Change

annenbergspaceforphotography.org

HAMMER MUSEUM

Until 17 January

Robert Heinecken: Object Matter

hammer.ucla.org

NEW ORLEANS

A GALLERY FOR FINE

PHOTOGRAPHY

Until 31 January

A Sense of Place

agallery.com

NEW YORK CITY

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Until 16 February

Thomas Struth: Photographs

Metmuseum.org

PASADENA

PASADENA MUSEUM OF

CALIFORNIA ART

Until 11 January

Burning Down the House: Ellen

Brooks, Jo Ann Callis and Eileen Cowin

pmcaonline.org

SAN FRANCISCO

CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM

Until 1 February

Arnold Newman: Masterclass

thecjm.org

STANFORD

ANDERSON COLLECTION

Until 15 February

Peaceful Presence: Leo Holub and

the Artist Portrait Project

anderson.stanford.edu

WASHINGTON DC

AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

Until 20 March

Irving Penn

americanart.si.edu

All pictures © Paula McCartney

M

cCartney confesses

that she prefers

photographing

subjects close-

up, at night or against a black

background as she feels ‘the

ambiguity of scale and substance

helped the subjects transcend their

source.’ She says, ‘Not everything

in the series is snow or ice but

I don’t have labels next to each

image specifically identifying its

source or location. I would prefer

the viewer to look at the series as a

whole and consider the recurrent

forms throughout nature. I’d like

the work to encourage a wider and

more open way of looking.’

After completing the images for

A Field Guide to Snow and Ice, she

produced a critically acclaimed

artist book based on a sub-series

of the project entitled, On Thin

Ice, In a Blizzard. Initially, she

considered her more extensively

fabricated images as separate from

the larger project. But when she

began to sequence the monograph

she realised the images as a whole

could be combined effectively, so

several were also included in her

book A Field Guide to Snow and

Ice (Silas Finch, 2014).

To date, McCartney has

produced 11 photo-based

artist books and has had two

monographs published. She has

attained funding for her projects

by earning several notable

grants, including two McKnight

Fellowships, two grants from the

Minnesota State Arts Board and

an Aaron Siskind Foundation

Individual Photographer’s

Fellowship grant.

Currently she is working on

a new body of work entitled

Hide the Sun, which seamlessly

combines landscapes abstracted

from their wider environment,

portraits, self-portraits and

still lifes.

A selection of prints from her

series Bird Watching are on show

at the Smithsonian American

Art Museum’s exhibition

The Singing and the Silence:

Birds in Contemporary Art until

22 February. Her solo exhibit at

the Kiehle Gallery at St. Cloud

State University in Minnesota is

on view through February 2015.

paulamccartney.com

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