Paula Eubanks
Photography
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Paula Eubanks, a native Georgian, has enjoyed a dual career as both an artist and art educator with a BFA, MFA, and EdD from the University of Georgia. She has taught photography at both high school and college levels and recently retired from Georgia State University where she was an associate professor. Paula is currently working on a textbook about pinhole photography.
She has worked in black and white silver prints, type C color prints, hand colored silver prints and digital media. Her work is sometimes three dimensional, moving forward from the picture plane by several inches to several feet. Her subject matter is wide ranging, including landscapes, architecture, automobiles, African American WWII soldiers in Nazi Germany but throughout her career, she has photographed the landscape of the Georgia coast. Another constant in her work is questioning and involving the viewer through visual puns, allusions, narrative text and even an invitation to manipulate the art.
Paula has had solo exhibitions at Sandler Hudson Gallery, at NationsBank, Atlanta and at the School of Ecology and the Student Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Her work has been shown at invited and juried exhibitions including Altered States at the Georgia Museum of Art, The South by It's Photographers at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Greenville Museum of Art, the Red Clay Survey at the Huntsville Museum of Art, and many exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta. Her work is included in the public and corporate collections including Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Agnes Scott College, West Georgia College, Gainesville College, Dekalb County Library, State of Georgia Offices, Federal Reserve Bank, King and Spaulding, John Wieland Homes, Resurgens P.C., Troutman, Lockerman and Sanders, Coca Cola Enterprises and Cox Enterprises.
Artist Statement
A Sea Grant first took me to Ossabaw in the early 199O's and I have returned frequently ever since. Ossabaw is the most beautiful of the barrier islands with long bands of marsh that stretch as far as the eye can see and driftwood forests on its beaches. For me its wilderness is a sanctuary, a place of consolation where humans are only visitors, where, in Thoreau's words "All good things are wild and free." Much of my work on Ossabaw qualifies as romantic, transcendentalist, even luminist.
My father's military service with African American WWII soldiers led to a recent interest in slavery and Jim Crow. The Ossabaw Education Alliance's conference and book African American life in the Georgia low country, the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee provided material for an intersection between that interest and Ossabaw which I have explored in some of the current work.
