Art

Farnham Galleries Exhibit - Julia Schwadron

schwadron1Julia Schwadron is an artist and academic. She was raised in Los Angeles, California and attended U.C. San Diego, where she studied Art. She moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1998.

After being awarded a residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2000, Schwadron attended graduate school at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, where she completed her MFA in Painting in 2004. At Tyler, Schwadron earned several honors, including the University Fellowship, as well as a Jacob Javits Fellowship.

As a Javits Fellow, Schwadron travelled to Brussels, Belgium in order to facilitate an exchange and curate a show in conjunction with the Transmedia Postgraduate Program in Art and Design.

In 2006, Schwadron was awarded a Joan Mitchell Fellowship for residency at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, VT.

Schwadron has shown her work in and around New York City, Los Angeles and Iowa. In addition, she was a founding member of the “Matzo Files,” a flat file project inside Streit’s Matzo store on the Lower East Side.

schwadronRecently, Schwadron was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Iowa, and currently is a Visiting Lecturer in Painting at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

"In an ongoing series of recent paintings, I use tropes of painting such as Still Life and Landscape to explore material possibilities through which the image can arise," Schwadron said. "I begin with a single image and then cover it up or erase it, only to dig it out again. I repeat this process through layering over, wiping out and sanding back. Ultimately the image I am looking for asserts itself through this process of manipulation and excavation."

 

 

Last Updated: 1/9/12