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I really like your work, I think I saw some of your pieces in a Wynwood District Gallery last December?
Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.juliedavidow.com
- Relationship status
- married
- College / University
- New World School of the Arts 1999
- Program
- Visual Arts - Painting
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Drawing, Installation, Painting
- I am...
- Julie Davidow was born in Miami, Florida. Her path to the arts was circuitous.
She first received her BA in Advertising from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville in 1986. After ten years as a small business owner, she returned to her first passion and attended New World School of the Arts in Miami from 1996-1999 on scholarship for painting.
Her work has since been exhibited at The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., and numerous local and national galleries. Her work is included in many private collections. A recipient of the Leo and Raye Chestler Visual Arts Award, Julie is currently an artist-in-residence at the ArtCenter | South Florida on Miami Beach.
- About my artwork
- I am a frustrated scientist collecting specimens of the organic and inorganic worlds, motivated to create art by an endless curiosity for the natural sciences, the systems that govern its functions, and the relationship of those systems colliding with man’s coexistence and interference. These relationships are explored through painting, drawing, and site-specific wall drawings of biomorphic shapes. These shapes interact and respond to one another, like organisms under a microscope, spreading tendrils out into the space of the two dimensional plane.
The abstractions evoke various organisms glimpsed in a moment of transition, growth, reproduction, mutation, and conflict. Each painting is a snapshot, a momentary glimpse of an interaction. The imagery is drawn from biological, sexual, botanical, geological, cartographic, and architectural influences. Like “characters” in a story, the shapes animate the space, and create a narrative as they appear and reappear throughout the body of my work. Taken together, individual paintings could represent events occurring simultaneously within a singular body.
The web-like ground of my paintings is created from a series of folding. This ground invokes the body – intimating skin, tissue, muscles, and cellular structures. Ghosts of cellular changes are revealed in this “skin” – a hint of what has occurred and is fading from view - previous battles won or lost, scars of conflict. Or possibly, these “ghosts” are indications of that which is emerging- responding to invasion, stimulation, acting as defense.
Order is intrinsic to the universe- what appears to be chaos is the action of that order. A grid or remnants of a grid system is purposefully infused into the ground during the folding process. This establishes the architecture of the space and creates a diagrammatic structure in which to compose these landscapes.
The New Strain continues my exploration of man’s interference with the systems that govern our ecology. This new series of paintings reveal a more dynamic and complex organization as conflicts heat up. The introduction of more acid and fluorescent colors to an otherwise subdued palette supports this intensification. Fiery, biomorphic forms seek to infiltrate and infect the status quo, while interference pigments, those that produce the spectrum of color found in butterfly wings, bird feathers, beetles, and seashells, allude to the disruption of this tenuous balance. Masses of flat color reference both the built environment encroaching on these systems, and the subsequent retreat of regions considered too remote to be affected.
- Artists I like
- Clyfford Still, Terry Winters, Julie Mehretu, Matthew Ritchie, Ingrid Calame,James Rosenquist,Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, Chris Natrop, Aurora Robson....
- Interests
- All things Science and Art...
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- Julie Davidow: The New Strain @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery - www.tarrynteresa.com
- Centre of the artworld:
- nowhere and everywhere
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Comment Wall (16 comments)
- At 4:36pm on October 1, 2011,
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- At 4:03pm on April 10, 2010,
André Paradis said…
- I really like your work, I think I saw some of your pieces in a Wynwood District Gallery last December?
- At 8:28pm on September 19, 2008,
Joan Fabian said… - Hi Julie-
Always loved your work.
I will have a solo expo in Miami. The opening is noon to 2pm on October 8.
peace!
joan
- At 12:16pm on July 3, 2008,
Katharyna Ulriksen said… - Hi! Really enjoyed looking at your work... very exciting :)
- At 11:28am on June 3, 2008,
Frank Fu said… - Interesting works!
Please check out my site
cheers,
Frank Fu
- At 2:44pm on April 22, 2008,
Edward Morris said… - Really interested work, Looks amazing too
- At 7:52am on April 2, 2008,
Ismo Jokiaho said…
- very exiting!
- At 9:36pm on March 23, 2008,
Mark Beatty said… - ditto! thanks!!! exciting work!!!
- At 3:08pm on March 5, 2008,
Amina Bech said… - Interesting works! Found you through Tarryn Teresa Gallery..
- At 11:52pm on March 1, 2008,
Thomas Ziorjen said… - Fascinating work Julie!
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