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Julie Green
Biography
Born: Japan, 1961
Died: Corvallis, Oregon, 2021
Julie Green was born in Japan in 1961. She has moved a lot, and this may be the reasons her work is small and can be easily carried. Green attempts to set up life in a way that promotes creative practice: for example, as an adult she has never had a TV. She lived in Oregon with her husband, the artist, Clay Lohmann. Studio time was divided between personal narrative images and an on-going project called The Last Supper illustrating 650 final meal requests of US death row inmates. While the plates are quite different than the personal work, both are observations of contemporary society.
Green generally worked without models or photographic references because of a fascination with memory; specifically, that which we choose to remember and that which we choose to forget. The alterations of memory may give the work dream-like quality, though dreams are rarely used as subject matter.
Died: Corvallis, Oregon, 2021
Julie Green was born in Japan in 1961. She has moved a lot, and this may be the reasons her work is small and can be easily carried. Green attempts to set up life in a way that promotes creative practice: for example, as an adult she has never had a TV. She lived in Oregon with her husband, the artist, Clay Lohmann. Studio time was divided between personal narrative images and an on-going project called The Last Supper illustrating 650 final meal requests of US death row inmates. While the plates are quite different than the personal work, both are observations of contemporary society.
Green generally worked without models or photographic references because of a fascination with memory; specifically, that which we choose to remember and that which we choose to forget. The alterations of memory may give the work dream-like quality, though dreams are rarely used as subject matter.
Artist Statement
Fur Man
Green reads cookbooks and food history. Charlemagne’s Tablecloth, by Nicola Fletcher, contains a passage describing an elaborate candlelit medieval banquet with folks in animal costumes. Chaos follows.
After
Memento mori of a beloved first cat.
Red Curtain
A wedding portrait of writers Shelley Rosenfeld and Jeff Kuhr. Working from memory, having met Kuhr only once, Green struggled with his features, hence the curtain.
Green reads cookbooks and food history. Charlemagne’s Tablecloth, by Nicola Fletcher, contains a passage describing an elaborate candlelit medieval banquet with folks in animal costumes. Chaos follows.
After
Memento mori of a beloved first cat.
Red Curtain
A wedding portrait of writers Shelley Rosenfeld and Jeff Kuhr. Working from memory, having met Kuhr only once, Green struggled with his features, hence the curtain.