juliejulie

Artist Statement:

I use materials in unexpected ways to highlight their organic components and show how they are related to the primordial journey of us, our cells and our environment. My work is filled with “Biology Rising” themes emerging in circles from conception to death and beyond. 

I make mixed media monotypes and image transfers on paper, canvas and objects. I create stencils and circles cut from canvas on my laser cutter to create vibrant layers of color and texture to tell stories about the natural world and our place in it.

My art explores the tension and dance between the organic nature of life at the cellular level and what humans have created from it in recent history.

Artist’s Bio:

Julie makes art in her studio on the edge of the North Umpqua river in Roseburg, Oregon. She has been balancing a career in Technology, writing and making art for the past 25 years. Most recently in her corporate life she worked at HP Inc. [and Hewlett Packard] leading teams through product innovation and corporate culture change. She still enjoys exploring the intersection between art and work, and teaches art workshops for business team-building. She is also a featured maker for MadeTV, a new streaming network for artists, creatives and makers, where she will be sharing how-to videos and behind the scenes tours of her process and her studio.

Julie has a BFA and a BA in English. She grew up in Eugene, Oregon and lived in both Bend, OR and the Bay Area.  Now a full time artist working in mixed media monotypes with and abstract expressionism, Julie also teaches with the Arts and Business Alliance of Eugene, at Whiteaker Printmaking Studio, at Umpqua Valley Arts in Roseburg, and at her home studio where she offers art retreats and workshops. Her online workshop series for individuals and business teams is coming soon. She showed her work in galleries and boutiques across the country in the early 1990’s, before beginning her career in tech, and even sold a vintage folk-art inspired Samsonite covered in thousands of dots of puff paint to Julia Roberts from a store in Los Angeles!

Julie’s artwork has come full circle, with all her life experiences embedded in layers of color, texture and form. She posts new work and works in progress on Instagram, her Facebook Page, and her website, juliejulie.co