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INSPIRED GEOMETRIES
Seattle painter and Pratt Instructor Julia Hensley is unveiling two of her most recent works on paper completed in late winter of this year. She is well known for her meticulously crafted and intimately scaled abstract urban landscapes. Her previous work organized the “banal chaos of urban detail” into flattened grids of carefully modulated, painted and cut paper squares and rectangles interwoven together not unlike a quilt or one of Mondrian’s grids.
Julia’s latest work, the expansive and seminal piece, “This Storied Heart”, represents a breakthrough in her evolution of working with the grid and cubic pixilation. Moving away from strictly depicting urban scenesand external realities, she is now staking new ground in the realm of the true “non-objective” composition. Working in a looser and highly intuitive way, “This Storied Heart” represents a slow natural accretion of cubic pixels, color washes and elusive imagery with no contrivance by the artist during the process. The result is a collage of remarkable organic complexity that visually mirrors the vicissitudes and intricacies of life and the human heart with a photographic clarity. Demonstrating equal measures technical skill and emotional sensitivity Julia has lead us to a place unforeseen at the beginning of her latest artistic journey.
- John Parkinson
Exerpt from Press Release
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