About the artist:


 I am a mixed media artist working in Southern California. 

 In 1999 I moved to Los Angeles, where I completed two important bodies of work: The Mask Series and Toyland. In both, I dove into the not so subtle differences between Northern and Southern California. Throughout the 2010's, I concentrated on transforming the two-dimensional surfaces of my photographs by puncturing, weaving, stitching, and embroidering into them. From experiments in portraying shadows on paper constructions and photographing detritus in plaster, to building digital images incorporating text and woven portraits, my artwork began to shift towards a more textural framework, e.g. A Paper Ballet  and Home as Hat - Flora as Fashion. 

In 2020, I shifted my attention to three dimensional materials. The abstract wood reliefs  have allowed me to explore shadow, depth, and light - not by capturing these elements on film, but to explore them in actual physical forms. Working in a new medium gave me the freedom to break free from two dimensional plane of photography. In 2024 I began constructing a silent symphony in paper pulp to accompany A Paper Ballet. 

Along with the abstract wood reliefs, these three distinct but interconnected bodies of work were exhibited in a solo show at Keystone Art Space June 18 - July 5, 2025. 

Born from the stringed pieces in my silent symphony, I have begun constructing a vibrant and colorful new body of work, "String Relief",  addressing the interplay between visual vibrations of color and how it corresponsed to vibrational sound waves - leading me to construct interactive pieces which will allow the viewer to actually play the art. 

Exploring the cross-sensory connections between reverberation and form with a focus on chromesthesia, in which sound involuntarily evokes an experice of color, shape and movement, this next step in the evolution into three dimensional space will bring me closer to uniting intangible concepts with a tangible piece of art.

After being directly affected by the Eaton Fire in January, in the I have gravitated towards creating colorful gouche collages. I began with Outer Inner Spaces constructed for backdrops to an upcoming play by Sandra Cruze on Women in Science, which then lead to vibrant collage studies of the vegetation in the deserts of Southern California.

It has evolved into a larger, more focused body of work which I have tentatively labeled "The Garden of Imagination". These pieces are exactly what I was working towards, a cohesive culmination of line, vibration of color and form.

Julie Green

August 2025

Photo credit: Jim McHugh




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