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.
Glass was intrigued with this call because earlier in life she struggled with the need for approval and acceptance versus the urge to be authentically herself. She has said she has been on a diet since fourth grade. The wood collage sculpture “Like Nobody’s Watching” contains text echoing memories of things her mother said, along with text of her own thoughts.
Glass loves the poem “Fat Girl Dances” and expressed similar freedom and abandon when constructing the sculpture. She revels in the fact that it is not prim and pretty like a Degas dancer, but is instead loose and devoid of pretense. Like the poem, that is where its power lies.
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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