Published by DeMerritt Pauwels Editions, 2022
Unglazed black stoneware ceramic sculpture, Three archival pigment prints mounted to museum board, Boxes covered in Duo and Euro Buckram, Foil stamped in black
Closed - 11.75" W x 10" H x 2.25" D
Open - 11.75" W x 10" H x 9.5" D
Edition of 10 with 2 APs
Staged Geometries is a deconstructed artist book that allows the viewer to assemble its elements into an installation. This sculptural object uses the language of black and white analog photography to explore the interconnectedness of positive and negative and presence and absence.
Housed within the specially designed handmade box are the elements to construct an architectural space. The lid of the box is removed to reveal the folded stage walls and a folio that contains the ceramic sculpture and three mounted photographs. The walls are unfolded and placed into a channel built into the base of the box. Next, the viewer places the ceramic object into the floor of the stage then choses one of three photographs picturing the sculpture’s shadow to place onto the stage wall.
The installation varies depending on which photographic background is chosen by the viewer as well as any artificial or natural light that allows the ceramic to cast an additional shadow on the stage floor or wall. Stemming from a yearning that exists for visual connections, the work highlights the dependence that exists between an object and its shadow.
2014
Published by Silas Finch, NY
Essay by Mark Alice Durant
10 x 8 x 1.25 inches
48 b&w and four-color plates
ISBN: 978-1-936063-08-6
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A Field Guide to Snow and Ice is McCartney's interpretation of the idea of winter. The series includes images of snowfalls and wildflowers, frozen waterfalls and stalagmites, snowdrifts and piles of gypsum sand, as well as other icy forms, in an effort to explore and reinterpret natural structures and the way they can reference multiple ideas on both micro and macro levels. The ambiguity of scale and substance helps the subjects transcend their source. With less there becomes more. This work invites viewers to look at the winter that surrounds them in a new way, abstracted from the vast landscape - a winter of the artist's imagination.
Exquisitely printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front and back covers. With the spine detached from the front cover, the book becomes an installation piece approximately 34 feet in length.
Surface Area exhibition installation view at Marin Gallery, IA. Curated by Noah Doely.
Installation view, Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University, MN