These instant Polaroid photographs explore the complexity of the deep forest in Virginia's rural Appalachian region.
Julia Paul was born 1966 in St. Paul, Minnesota, usa. 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 curating exhibitions by artists including Judy Fiskin, Barbara Kruger, Tony Oursler, Thomas Struth, Andy Warhol, James Welling, and H.C. Westermann. She contributed to didactic, press, catalogue, and grant proposal materials for exhibitions and traveled internationally for exhibition research and installation. After nine years she moved to rural Virginia.
For the past three years, Julia Paul has been working on several instant Polaroid series centered on rural landscapes, the local forest, and the unique ebb and flow of use and degradation that occurs in between cities. Paul has been featured on many photography and design blogs, and self-published her monograph Far From the City in 2009.
