Discipline: Visual Art

Paula Overbay

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991, 1994
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Paula Overbay She attended the Pacific Northwest College of Arts in Portland, OR and received a B.F.A. in printmaking and painting in 1978. In 1980 she received a grant to attend Carnegie Mellon University and graduated with an M.F.A. in printmaking. She then taught conceptual design and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University and printmaking at the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Crafts. She began showing in university and New York Galleries and received grants from the Pennsylvania State Council of the Arts. Her work traveled with the Smithsonian World Print II Exhibition Tour, and was exhibited with the Boston Museum National Print Exhibition and Philadelphia Print Club International Exhibition. In 1985, she shifted from printmaking to painting and began exhibiting while teaching at Lewis and Cark College. Her works continued into public collections in New York, San Francisco, Portland, Ossaka, Honolulu, and Denver and she attended residencies at MacDowell. In 1997, she moved to Brooklyn. She has exhibited in “Penelope’s Constellations” at Muriel Guepin Gallery in Brooklyn NY; “Paintings” at 38 Cameron Gallery in Cambridge MA; “Cosmology” at Storefront Bushwick in Brooklyn NY; “Artronomy” at AG Gallery in Brooklyn NY; “The Shift-A New Art of Spirit” at KNOX Gallery in New York, NY; and “The Universe: Microcosm and Macrocosm” at the College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ.

Studios

New Hampshire

Paula Overbay worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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