Julie Blankenship
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Julie Blankenship STATEMENT Julie Blankenship’s mixed media works explore history, loss and the changeable nature of identity in the context of an increasingly industrialized environment. In her current series, she uses small, found carte de visite (cdv) photographs and cabinet cards from the second half of the nineteenth century. She peels, cuts up and layers the images using collage techniques, and then heavily alters them with more layers of spontaneous drawing, painting and printmaking techniques using various inks. In recent years, she has produced series of works based on found photographs, fashion magazines and advertising ephemera from the 1900s. BIO Julie Blankenship was born in La Jolla, California and grew up in military family that moved frequently. She lived in Spain for several years, and became fascinated with the paintings of Velasquez and Goya. She studied with Bruce Conner and Linda Connor and received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in painting and photography. She taught photography and interdisciplinary art and collaboration at SFAI and San Francisco State University. While serving as Executive Director of Visual Aid, an organization that supported the creative work of artists with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses, she founded the Visual Aid Gallery and curated numerous exhibitions at the gallery and other Bay Area venues. Blankenship’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows and projects at Amsterdam Center for Photography, American Institute of Artchitecture’s Center for Architecture + Design Gallery, Joseph Chowning Gallery and The Lab in San Francisco and the American Institute of Architecture in NYC; and group shows at national and international venues including Korean Culture and Arts Foundation in Seoul, Korea, Poorthuis Openluchtmuseum in Genk, Belgium, Center for Photography International in Haarlem, Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Perceptual Art in Buffalo, New York and Arts Commission Gallery, Walter McBean Gallery, Southern Exposure, Camerawork and Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. ARTIST CONTACT IMAGES
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