| Julie Graham |
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| Biography |
| International Art-Making Program. BA, Hood College, Frederick, MD ('69); MFA, Central School of Art, London ('73). Solo exhibitions at Harcus Gallery and Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Group exhibitions: Stephen Haller Gallery and Art in General, NY; Neilsen Gallery, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Rose Art Museum, and Fuller Museum, Boston; Currier Gallery of Art, NH. Grants and awards: Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, finalist; Blanche Colman Awards; MacDowell Colony Residency. |
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| Artist Statement |
Architecture imposes geometry on nature, creating and defining non-natural spaces that are inhabited, at least for a time, by individuals and/or communities. I am interested in what defines a "sense of place" and what makes a space human or hostile, inviting or inhabiting; how vernacular architecture worldwide has a certain simplicity of detail but a richness of humanity; how structural outcroppings can at once be compelling and isolating. Buildings and their surrounding designed environments carry the memory of their creation and cause us to question our cultural identities and our own locations in time. As spaces are defined, so are our relationships to them and to each other.
Using the formal devices of painting, sculpture, drawing and architectural design I am building paintings in which the process mirrors the act of construction. I draw on the multiple resources of landscape and architectural photography, media images and historical painting to create these unpopulated spaces in which the emptiness is the real construct. |
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