ARTIST STATEMENT
Julie Glass is interested in the intersection of materials, processes, visuals, and ideas. Her wood collage work uses reclaimed wood and allows for infinite combinations of colors, patterns and ideas. She is inspired by the ideas of quantum physics. Because particles can be anywhere at any time, it is theorized that parallel universes could exist. Whether or not this is true, she relishes the thought that there are endless possibilities and that we could live an infinite number of lives. If everyone knew they might live every other person’s life, empathy would abound. This thought led her to begin creating female figures from different walks of life. Like every woman’s life, they are assembled from diverse previously created elements. They are added, subtracted and rearranged until the figure becomes who she is meant to be.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Julie Glass is a sculptor working in wood, steel and textiles. She has exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, the Aquarium Gallery, the Good Children Gallery, the Kolaj Institute Gallery, the Carroll Gallery at Tulane University, and the Louisiana Jazz and Heritage Museum in New Orleans; the Waveland Gallery in Mississippi; the Glassell Gallery, the Carey Saurage Arts Center and the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge; the Masur Museum in Monroe, the Alexandria Museum of Art; the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum (solo show), the Norton Art Gallery, ArtSpace (solo show and group shows), and the Marlene Yu Museum and other locations in Shreveport. She has completed a residency at the Kallenberg Tower. She has also created public art permanently installed at the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (ArtStation) in Shreveport and designed and created steel art frames in Shreveport Common for the display of blankets created during the Nick Cave residency. Glass and her wife have recently moved to Amite, Louisiana where they are renovating a 100 year old house.
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