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About Paula BillupsPaula Billups is an interdisciplinary artist with an international studio practice spanning over twenty years. She chiefly works in the media of painting, installation, artist book building, collage, and writing. She works and lives in Massachusetts and in the ether.
Ms. Billups' recent collage work shows her meditation on those fragments rescued from public spaces whose ephemeral stories are lost or obscured by the passage of time. In presenting these fragments, she asks the viewer to come to terms with the idea that not all things are knowable. Her recent paintings rejoice in the beauty of small and common subjects: her aim is to study and present these via the conscious brushwork of the macchioli, or "little patches" approach in her alla-prima works in oil. Her 2023 book, Penelope Unweaving, tells the story of her studio practice in 2017, during which she wove and unwove on an ancient Greek-style loom, followed in the footsteps of the mythical Queen Penelope, and documented her experiences and the lessons she learned from the project. |
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