This Storied Heart: Press Release

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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

Unveiling

I'm happy that with my first new post in a while I get to announce the unveiling of one of my newest works: This Storied Heart.

My painting is in a three-person show opening next month at Form, Space Light Gallery in Fremont. It takes up the entire north wall of the gallery, with pieces of collage extending past the borders of the painting and onto the wall. It's my first installation of this kind, and I'm very excited to share it.

Please stop by for the opening on June 6th, I'd love to see you! There will also be an artists' reception during the run of the show, and a closing event.

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Inspired Geometries

Julia Hensley
Joseph Keppler
John Parkinson
Mike Sweeney

Recent Painting and Sculpture

June 6th through July 20th

OPENING RECEPTION
June 6th during Fremont's First Friday Artwalk
6pm-9pm

ARTISTS' RECEPTION
Saturday, June 14th
6pm-9pm

CLOSING RECEPTION
Sunday, July 20th
2pm-5pm

619 N 35th St
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98103
Ph./Fax: (206) 545-6974
Email: info@fslgallery.com
Hours: By appointment
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Photo by Richard Nicol
This Storied Heart (non-installation view)
Acyrlic and Goauche Collage
on Watercolor Paper
52" w x 45" h

Intuition

Acrylic and gouache on paper and parchment
Approximately 3' x 5'

Richard Nicol

I took a pile of collages over to artist and photographer, Richard Nicol's house the other day to be photographed. I am excited to get high-resolution, high-quality images of the work I've been posting snapshots of here.

What a great conversation, culminating in Richard showing me some of his gunpowder drawings - drawings made by lighting black powder and modern gunpowder on heavy, textured paper. The marks left, in a palette of grays, siennas, browns and blacks, have a grit and a subtlety that has to be seen.

this storied heart

approximately 4'x5'
gouache and acrylic collage on watercolor paper
2008

must go see before last day. . .

Courtesy Of Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Florence
"The Creation" is one of the restored Lorenzo Ghiberti door panels from the Florence Baptistery. Three of the 15th-century gilt bronze panels are on display at the Seattle Art Museum through April 6.

studio

Fremont First Friday

Friday, March 7
6-8

Form-Space-Light Gallery
619 N 35th St, Ste 100
In the Alley North of the PCC Parking Garage

Look for the blue and orange doors.

206-545-6974
fslgallery@gmail.com
www.formspacelight.com

Official opening! Work by John Parkinson, Joseph Kepler, Julia Hensley et al

realize

about 2'x'3'
acrylic and gouache on watercolor paper
with bristol board and parchment collage

panning blind

acrylic and gouache collage on paper, bristol board and parchment
approx. 2'x3'

party at form-space-light gallery

Saturday, February 23
2-5pm

Form-Space-Light Gallery
619 N 35th St, Ste 100
In the Alley North of the PCC Parking Garage

Look for the blue and orange doors.

206-545-6974
fslgallery@gmail.com
www.formspacelight.com

This is the unofficial pre-opening party, and a chance to see my collages together with some of the little acrylics that began this whole phase of work back in 2003. (The official opening will be on Fremont's First Friday ArtWalk in March).












Walking From Queens;
Acrylic on Paper
9 7/8" x 3 3/4"
2003

matisse

"I am inhabited by things that wake me but do not reveal themselves."

(translation by Caroline Beamish)

intermission: into the wild

Watch the trailer here

I love small, non-Hollywood plots that contain a world; this one got to me in part because I couldn't help but be reminded of my own Alaskan adventure. And more specifically and uneasily, of the urge to challenge oneself to the point, sometimes, of foolishness. . . Based on the true story by Jon Krakauer and sharply directed by Sean Penn, it's about a young man who forsakes society to face and find himself in the wilds of Alaska. Emile Hirsch plays Christopher McCandless with absorption and fire, cheekbones, ribcage and all.

a work in progress

I couldn't resist as it's Valentine's Day. This is very much still in the works, things shifting and morphing. But the feel is there.

desert night

approximately 4'x5'
acrylic and gouache on paper, parchment and Bristol board

even the queen

acrylic & gouache on bristol board, parchment & paper
roughly 4' x 5'

the latest from studio 6N.