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| Oil Paintings | |
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| Joy Street Studios
86 Joy Street, Studio 13
Somerville, MA 02143
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| Contact: |
| 781-720-9247
julieat@verizon.net
http://JulieAT.com
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| Statement: |
| In 2004 I began working out of a painting studio at the Joy Street Studios in Somerville. Once there my subject matter shifted from paintings of sand dunes and weeds to paintings of fruit, vegetables, and eggs.
Recent paintings use these organic items, (apples, eggs, onions, etc…) to emulate different personifications of human emotions that enabled them to embody a life and story of their own; to express individual personalities when interacting with one another. They are seen cuddling, showing off, and alienating each other. Unseen viewers look in on them as they interact, react, spy on, and show off for one another. Some can be seen on a stage, strung up, or hidden away. Even when mistakenly confident in their privacy, someone is always watching.
I use and explore the imagery created around these natural elements, while continuing to devise new ways to best close the gap dividing the flat painted images lying within dimensional surface texture. In some paintings I experimented with materials to augment the surface of the canvas, in order to better play off the paintings imagery. The paintings texture vary from smoothly gessoed surfaces, of tight weave canvas and paper, to greatly textured canvases - created through a combination of materials such as dirt mixed with gesso, built up plaster-like surfaces through thick layers of gesso, or even simply through using course, ruff, heavy canvas.
I am also continuing to explore concepts of size and scale between objects. Specifically as to how the size of the object impacts the viewer. I am in the process of trying to answer some questions like - How would an object, such as a lemon, effect the viewer differently when it is seen as actual size compared to being the size of a soccer ball or a marble? Or, how would all three relate to each other if all were placed on a single canvas? The newest paintings touch on these questions and also begin to experiment with minimalism. These new pieces have a duel focus - the combination of background and foreground. The background has become an abstract field of color on texture producing a void unto itself. Gesso has been thickly layered on with a pallet knife, and then thin glazes of color have been applied to enhance the texture. The still life is used as an anchor to give the pictorial field a sense of weight. It also transforms the abstraction of the textural background into a landscape for the fruit and veggies to exist in. | |
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