Family, 2012 – Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Student Art Exhibition:

“Under the Ladder”, Fine Art Galleries, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.

In Julie’s installation “Family,” she is reacting to her own sense of place on motherhood and of her ancestry (present and past). Her multi-dimensional, emotionally charged work explores metaphor as a devise to clarify vitality, demise, and a tangled lineage.

The branches are natural, however forced together or apart through purposeful actions, solid yet precarious. Embellishments form a narrative using bailing wire, wax, wood epoxy, sterling silver wire, screws, acrylic paint and found objects.

Four large-scale Trace Monotypes prints inform the suspended branch sculpture. Each are hand pulled prints with multiple ink layers. On the back sides of the prints (not shown) are graphite pencil traced drawings, a process obscured as that layer is unseen against the wall - the discretion alludes to the many complicated sides a family posses.