"OKOKOK" by Julia Schwadron Marianelli

Julia Schwadron Marianelli is a painter and faculty of the Fine Arts Department, at Lake Tahoe Community College. Her paintings have been written about in multiple publications including The Brooklyn Rail, The Bangkok Post, and Contemporaryartdaily.com. She has shown her artwork across the country as well as internationally. She was a Visiting Professor of Painting and Artist in Residence at Chiang Mai University from 2010 - 2011, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Iowa from 2007-2009. She was a founding member of the “Matzo Files,” an artist flat file project inside Streit’s Matzo store on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2004.

Schwadron Marianelli received a Joan Mitchell fellowship in 2006. She completed her BA in Studio art at UC San Diego in 1998 and her MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in 2004.

She currently lives and works in South Lake Tahoe with her husband and two kids.

What makes you truly happy?

2 of my works in this show are from 2001, my first year of graduate school The other two are from just a few years ago, and almost 20 years later. I’m still looking at the basic structures of how to build the structure of image, whether from text, still life or self reflection. Making art makes me happy, so it’s interesting to look at this span of studies over time as evidence of my enduring pursuit of happiness in the studio.