Julie Hughes
Julie Hughes is known for her 2 and 3-dimensional, painted environments that highlight a fascination with fragmented, mutated, and reconstructed biomorphic forms. These installations are theatrical and over-the-top investigations of the arbitrary, corruptible and transient nature of perceived reality. They skate the line between seemingly distinct conditions: the seductive and the beastly; the playful and the menacing; the natural and the synthetic; the real and the imaginary. Her work allows audiences to inhabit her world, to absorb the environments, pose questions of their personal existence and experiences, to leave with a new appreciation and understanding of the tangible and the visceral. This year launches a new body of work that will explore personal experiences and inspiration that are actually inherent and relatable to us all.
"The enticing, candy-like quality of the colors combined with the images’ cartoon-like rendering belies my own discomfort with my suspicion that what we are—our corporeal matter—is all that we are." - Julie Hughes
Selected Exhibitions
- Internal Environments 2008 - Project Forefront and Ongoing - beginning in May 2008 (press release)
- Gallery Revisited…4 year anniversary show (press release) - January 2008
- Small is Large #2 "Malflourished" (press release) - 2 person exhibition - October 2006
- Inauguration 3 (press release PDF) - new location group show - February 2006
- Enter/Exit The Uncommon Landscape (press release PDF) - July 2005
2008 Reception Dates
- May 10th
- June 28th
- August 9th
- September 27th
Résumé
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2007
- Sanguilicious, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
- Adipose Gladipose, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2006
- Malflourished, (Two-person) Gallery Revisited, Silver Lake, CA
2005
- Turned-Out, (Two-person) Gallery 825, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA0
2004
- Bad Science, Good Lookin’ (Thesis Show), California State University, Northridge
Group Exhibitions
2006
- Parts to the Whole, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Elizabeth Grady, Whitney Museum of American Art - Inaugural 3, Gallery Revisited, Silver Lake, CA
- Surface Tension: Works by Fourteen Contemporary Artists, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Curator: Kyungmi Shin; Jurors: David Moon, Howard Fox, Yong Soon Min - Random Perspectives, Red House Gallery, Venice, CA
- Fresh stArt (Charitable Auction), McCall Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
- Flow Charting, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- Saturated Palette, Andlab, Los Angeles, CA
2005
- Group, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Enter/Exit the Uncommon Landscape, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2004
- Rustic and Urbane, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
- White Planes, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2003
- First Annual Invitational, The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA juror: David Pagel
- The $200 Show, Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Teaching Experience
2008
- Instructor, Drawing, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA
2003 - Present
- Instructor, Drawing, Painting and 2-D Design; California State University, Northridge
2002 – 2003
- Teaching Assistant, Printmaking; California State University, Northridge
Collections
- Andlab, Los Angeles, CA
- Chris and Amber Mullen, Los Angeles, Ca
- Ashley McLean Emenegger, Pasadena, CA
- Dr. David Tonnemacher, Glendale, CA
- Dr. and Mrs. James Palmquist, Kauai, HI
- Quinn Violins, Minneapolis, MN
- California State University, Long Beach Print Collection
- University of Minnesota, Morris Print Collection
Press
- Walking in a Hyper-Pink Wonderland New Times Magazine (December 2007)
Article by Ashley Schwellenbach - Refused Art Culture Magazine, Interview Spring/Winter Issue 3 2007
- LA Alternative Press, "To Do" October 12 - 17, 2006
- Part of What’s Up Artblog (www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog) (January 6, 2006)
Article by Libby Rosof - First Friday Focus City Paper (Philadelphia) (January 5-11, 2006) Article by Lori Hill
- Reality Shakes Hands with Fiction Los Angeles Times (August 26, 2005)
Article by David Pagel - Continuing and Recommended Exhibitions Art Scene Magazine (April 2005)
Article by Bill Lasarow - Enter/Exit at Bamboo Lane Revisited Art Week Magazine (September 2005)
Article by Charlene Roth
Awards
2006
- Best In Show, “Polyponesian Tuberfoil Mangrove” (collaboration with Pete Goldlust)
Surface Tension, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2004
- Polished Apple Excellence in Teaching Award, CSUN
- Second Place (Fine Arts), Annual CSU Student Research Competition
- Arts Council Scholarship, CSUN
2003
- Hans Burkhardt Scholarship, CSUN
Education
2004
- M.F.A. Studio Art (Painting), California State University, Northridge
1995
- B.A. Art, California State University, Northridge
1987
- Uppsala University, Sweden
1986
- University of California, Santa Barbara
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