Paula Overbay is a Brooklyn-based artist. She attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and received a Masters of Fine Art in Printmaking. She then taught conceptual design and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University and Printmaking at the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Crafts. “I imagine nature at a cellular level: molecules as a metaphor. The images are influenced by cells in a petrie dish, the murmurations of birds, the migrations of butterflies, star constellations and especially our mercurial weather. Clouds are an ongoing theme that I return to again and again. It could be that living in Oregon for the bigger share of my life and witnessing cloud banks, fog, gales, drizzle and downpours for months on end have given me an edge into the semi-translucent quality of those illusive things.”