about

For the past three years, Paul has been working on several instant Polaroid series centered on rural landscapes, the unique ebb and flow of use and degradation that occurs in between cities, and the local forest as a metaphor for change and resilience. Her works are not digitally altered and make use of the uniquely direct, all-in-one Polaroid process.

Julia Paul was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997. While in Los Angeles, Paul installed museum exhibitions for artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Robert Kienholz, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman. She became Curatorial Associate coordinating and assisting in curating exhibitions by artists including Judy Fiskin, Barbara Kruger, Tony Oursler, Thomas Struth, Andy Warhol, James Welling, and H.C. Westermann. After nine years of museum work she moved to rural Virginia.

Polaroid photography was originally developed to be seamless and easy for anyone to use. This accessibility undermines a sense of formality. A physical object develops before your eyes, producing an image with soft focus and an intimate size that invites close viewing.

Education

1997    MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
1995    BA, University of California, Los Angeles

Exhibitions (selected)

2010    Paducah Photo 2010, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY, Juror: Michael Johnson (June 19 - July 24)
2010    47th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA, Juror: David Huston (May 22 - July 17)
2010     Nostalgia, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont. Juror: Larissa Leclair (April 6 - May 1)
1997    Thesis exhibition, White Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

On-line publications and blogs (selected)

2011

onefinedae
Pretty in the Kitchen

2010

Flickr Blog, Your Best Shot 2009: In the forest
fleuves & montagnes sans fin
365blanc
eyeblog
habit of art
female photographers of etsy
The Paper Dialogues

2009

Parasol Magazine: 2, May
Romka Magazine: Romka #3
Free People
Film is not Dead it Just Smells Funny
Images Found
The Best Things Blog
Pidgeonhole
The Dizzy Pixie
eb
Gentle Pure Space
For Me, For You
End of March

2008

About Some Things
Every Little Counts

2008

the smartest fish

Publications

Far From the City, Polaroid Photographs by Julia Paul, Self-published, 2008, 44 pages.

A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968. Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004. Contributor: 233-235, 294-295, 308, 342-345.

Member

Y Pottery Studio, Blacksburg

The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge

Blacksburg Regional Art Associate