ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a culmination of questions I have about contemporary issues, materials that hold their own conversation, and mindfully cutting, wrapping, or mark making. I have methodically removed text to create work about banned books, woven multiples of miniature pants to speak about war, and constructed a crime scene between the characters of Dorothy and Alice to question our archetypes of gender.
Most recently I have been working from the grid and historical embroidery. That is what led me to make ‘reframe’. I was thinking about how we should focus more energy on the people who are undermined by our current president and highlight some part of their life to show their worth, just as was done in E.B. White’s book, “Charlotte’s Web”. I chose to embroider on medical gauze for this piece as a nod to the healing that we must endure.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Julianna Dail is an interdisciplinary artist investigating patterns, including those found in storytelling, (mis)communication, textiles, and behaviors. Their work speaks about comfort versus security, identity, gender norms, or accountability of actions.
A graduate of Kent State with a BFA concentrating in painting, Julianna then received an MFA degree with Departmental Honors from Parsons School of Design. Julianna has exhibited extensively throughout the US and was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for works on paper, a National collage Society Award, and has work in numerous private collections.
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