A Hug From The Art World is delighted to present Embrace,
Mary McCartney’s first New York solo exhibition.
The exhibition opens on Thursday, November 16th, with a reception from 6-8 pm, and runs through December 23rd.
Embrace is the third part in a trilogy of exhibitions. The first: Moment of Affection opened at Château La Coste’s Bastide Gallery, Provence in June 2022. The second: “Can we Have a Moment? Three Decades of Photographs in Britain” opened at Sotheby’s in London in March 2023. Lastly, Embrace, completes the trilogy, featuring over twenty works spanning the artist’s thirty-year career, it is the first major survey of McCartney’s work in the United States.
McCartney said of her upcoming exhibition, “I feel a strong connection to New York City, as it is a big part of my family heritage, so showing at A Hug From The Art World feels like a homecoming. Embrace completes the trilogy of shows, delving further into the collected memories held within my archive. The trilogy is about connection, trust, devotion, and human emotion, I want the images to take the viewer on a shared journey with me and Embrace is the culmination of that journey.”
In this exhibition, McCartney collaborates once again with longtime friend, Georgina Cohen, the two previously teamed up on her Château La Coste show, which Cohen co-curated. “Mary has a talent for capturing beautiful moments and it is wonderful to see these being embraced and shared. A Hug From The Art World feels the perfect place in which to do this,” says Cohen.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mary McCartney was born in London in 1969.
Her photography work is held in major private and public collections including: the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Royal Academy, London and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris. In 2015, McCartney was chosen to by Buckingham Palace to take the official portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to mark the occasion of her becoming Britain longest reigning Monarch.
McCartney’s first feature documentary as director, Abbey Road Studios: If These Walls Could Sing, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival September 2022 and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award. Streaming now on Disney+
Recent solo exhibitions include: Can we Have a Moment? Three Decades of Photographs in Britain, Sotheby’s, London (2023); Moment of Affection, Château La Coste, France (2022); The White Horse, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (2018); Monochrome Colour, Muzeum Woli, Warsaw (2019); From The Print Draw, A Gallery For Fine Photography, New Orleans (2019); Undone, Izzy Gallery, Toronto (2017); Monochrome Colour, de Pury, London (2014); Developing, The Lowry, Manchester (2013); From Where I Stand, Tres Hombres Art, Halmstad (2012), Contributed, Berlin (2011), Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (2010), Staley-Wise Gallery, New York (2010) and National Portrait Gallery, London (2010)
Selected publications include: Feeding Creativity (Taschen, released November 2023); From Where I Stand (Thames & Hudson, 2019); Paris Nude (HENI, 2019); The White Horse (Rizzoli International Publishing, 2018); Twelfth Night 15.12.13(HENI, 2016), Monochrome Color (GOST, 2016), From Where I Stand (Thames & Hudson 2010).