June solo show in downtown Seattle

Sightline Institute presents a show of my work now on display in the lobby of their Seattle office through the end of the month. Urban Perspective: City Views is a collection of my abstract urban landscapes in multiple media: oil, acrylics, and gouache-on-paper collage. Most of the images are Seattle area scenes, with a few of Boston, New York, and Vegas.

Urban Perspective: City Views

13 pieces by artist Julia Hensley

Curated by Becky Brooks

Sightline Institute

1402 Third Ave

Fifth Floor, Suite 500

Seattle

206-447-1880 ext. 100

Through the month of June

Visit on weekdays between 10am and 3pm

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All 13 pieces are available for purchase. Contact me for prices and availability. Affordably priced.
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Sightline Institute, Cascadia's sustainability think tank, is an important organization to the Northwest region and beyond as they research and communicate trends that are crucial to the region's future: health, economy, population, energy, sprawl, wildlife, and pollution. They provide the research and tools needed to make progress on a range of solutions to these issues. The now familiar term 'green-collar jobs' was coined at Sightline.

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Please stop by! After viewing the art, you are invited to respond to the question, “What thoughts about sustainability are inspired by Julia's art - or by art in general?” 

A notebook to share your response is available near the artwork, or you can add your comment here.
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Image:
Julia Hensley

Miller Paint; Oil on Panel; 16" x 20"; 2006 

JH on Sunne Savage Gallery site

I am excited to announce that my work is now represented on the Sunne Savage Gallery website. 

I am listed in the Contemporary section, just above David Hockney. 

Click on my name to view a page of my work.

Also represented in the Contemporary section are two professors from my school: James Weeks, who, though he was never one of my teachers directly, imparted a legacy that included the mixing of jewel-clear color;  and Nick Edmonds, my sculpture professor, who taught me to construct planes and build clear structure, to dance back and forth and view things from every which way, and to attempt the unlikely (an abstract giraffe skull, a clay landscape). I am honored to see my name on the same page with theirs along with the likes of de Kooning and Kline.

Julia Hensley
DARE
Gouache and Acrylic Collage on Watercolor Paper
30" x 22"

Photo: Art and Soul

Peace

Wishing you a New Year of discovery, beauty, art and light.

Summer campfire at Lake Cayuga, 2008.

Studio Sale Extended

Couldn't make it to my sale last week? 

There's still a chance.

I am extending my Studio Art Sale for FOUR more viewing opportunities:

Julia Hensley
STUDIO ART SALE
619 Western Ave
Studio 6 North

in Pioneer Square
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Saturday, November 22

10am-12pm
Come up for pastries and orange juice
and great morning light on the work
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Saturday, November 22
7-9pm
Wine and cheese
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Saturday, November 29
4-8pm
(NO Seahawks game)
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Sunday, November 30
1-4pm
(NO Seahawks game)
My last day in the studio at 619.
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See you there!

Deck Your Walls

I am moving my studio and making room for new work. That means it's time for a fabulous, priced-to-move,

STUDIO ART SALE

Saturday, November 15

4pm-8pm

619 Western Ave in Pioneer Square

Studio 6 North

By appointment through December 10

To reserve your choices, please respond to this post or email me at julia@juliahensley.com

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Checks only. Prices include tax. Shipping not included. 

There will likely be more work than is shown here, so COME EARLY for the widest selection of art (as well as wine and snacks).

Happy Holidays to all!

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A portion of the proceeds will go to the American Diabetes Foundation. 

in the studio

Amphibious

Julia Hensley

Amphibious

Acrylic and Gouache Collage on Paper, Bristol Board and Parchment
Approx. 2'x3'

This just emerged in the studio. Pictures taken with my iPhone.

Motherwell moment

at MoMa. For some reason on this trip, my eye kept getting grabbed by Motherwell. Bold and delicate at once. This is his Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 54.

Matisse

at MoMa. A detail of one of my favorite paintings in the history of painting. For the whole image, click here.

MoMA

Crowds in the Matisse room. I could stay in there for, oh, an hour. Go visit Motherwell and deKooning, come back for another hour...

MassMOCA

Jenny Holzer at MassMOCA. You walk into a room the size of a football field where her words are projected, scrolling up the floor and walls and ceiling. You can flop onto a beanbag and take in the effect of disjointed text washing over and around you, or stand at the entrance and get a more condensed read. I enjoyed the visual effect of the text, especially as it gets fragmented on the beams and from the side. I needed another half hour in there to take in the meaning of the writing itself. I am curious if the impact of the words would be different if I read them on a small scale.

Life in the laundro lane.

Wash.

Wear.

Wash.

Repeat.

Read all about it...

...HERE.

Angie Jones's review of "Inspired Geometries" is up on the Seattle.net site. I think she liked it.

Fremont!

The closing reception for "Inspired Geometries" is on a Sunday, and the gallery is just a few steps from the Fremont Sunday Market.

I was there last week. My first find was 20 bucks, on the street, which I spent on flowers.

My next find was an Yves Klein-blue scarf (my favorite blue) for $5, followed by a vintage Perry Mason paperback with a cover illustration of a bare-shouldered brunette peeking from behind a pink curtain. $3.

Treasures are everywhere...

Come on by

CLOSING RECEPTION
"Inspired Geometries"

Sunday, July 20th
2pm-5pm

Form-Space-Light Gallery

619 N 35th St
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98103
Ph./Fax: (206) 545-6974
Email: info@fslgallery.com
Hours: By appointment

Join us this Saturday

ARTISTS' RECEPTION
Saturday, June 14th
6pm-9pm
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Inspired Geometries
Paintings and Sculpture

Julia Hensley
Joseph Keppler
John Parkinson
Mike Sweeney
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Form-Space-Light Gallery
619 N 35th St
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98103
Ph./Fax: (206) 545-6974
Email: info@fslgallery.com
Hours: By appointment

The gallery is behind the PCC in Fremont.
Look for the orange and turquoise doors.










This Storied Heart
detail
photo: Richard Nicol

Story of an opening

iPhone pics:theschnitz

Taken during the public opening of "Inspired Geometries" on Friday, June 6. What a pleasure to see people interact with the paintings and sculptures. Thanks to all who came out.

This Storied Heart: Press Release

(Please scroll to next post for show information).

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'