March 24, 2009
© Laura McPhee, 2008
From the series Guardians of Solitude
On view at Bonni Benrubi, NY until April 11, 2009
Laura McPhee earned a BFA in Art History from Princeton University in 1980, where she studied with Emmet Gowin and a MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. McPhee was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and Fellowship in 1998 for work in India and Sri Lanka and a residency in Idaho from Alturas Foundation 2003-2005. She was also awarded a New England Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 1995 and a John Simon Guddenhaim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1993.
Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Center, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others.
Smoke above Fisher Creek, Valley Road Wildfire
40,838 Acres Burned, Custer County, Idaho, 2005
From the series River of No Return
© Laura McPhee
She is the daughter of award winning author John McPhee and photographer Pryde Brown, sister of novelists Jenny McPhee and Martha McPhee, architectural historian Sarah McPhee, and Joan Sullivan, founding principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters.
Sluices at a reservoir, part of a two-thousand-year-old irrigation
system now updated, near Badulla, Sri Lanka 1998
From the series No Ordinary Land
© Virginia Beahan & Laura McPhee
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