JULIA SCHWADRON MARIANELLI

Weed Impunity, acrylic ink on canvas, bundle dyed with plants, 38” x 42” 2021. Julia Schwadron Marianelli

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.

 

Studio visit with Julia Schwadron Marianelli

Brittle Myths, 24” x 18” acrylic ink on paper on board, 2021. Julia Schwadron Marianelli

High Country series

In her recent work, Julia has been using still life objects from her immediate natural environment as starting points for paintings and drawings. Seven years ago, she relocated from New York City, to South Lake Tahoe, CA - landscapes she considers polar opposites. Loosely titled, “High Country,” this work is evolving out of her exploration of this new topography, and the experience of living in the mountains as a contemporary artist and thinker.

 

Painting is a literal way to map Julia’s understanding of her surroundings and create a record of her relationship to them. The paintings she is making now initiate from a glimpse of a color or texture she observes outside (or drags inside). She then uses a mixture of oil and water-based paints as well as bleach and charcoal to layer these observed moments over text-based abstractions, embedding imagery or pattern onto and into paper and other manipulated fabric surfaces.

 

available work below

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What's left over

Where we end up is where we started, Traces, 2006

The largescale paintings in the " What' s left over..." series are oil on linen, white paint on a black ground, and evoke the photographic negative, a photogram, or an x-ray. Unlike any of these comparisons, the paintings are made by  hand, in direct response to an object itself, in this case, a bouquet of dead flowers.

 

Each painting in the series measures 54 ” x 90 ”, enforcing a relation to a human scale. The white paint on the black surface is transparent in parts, and the brushstrokes are present as evidence of potential life left inside what is already dead

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Having moved to Lake Tahoe from New York City 8 years ago, artist Julia Schwadron found a personal connection to her new surroundings through trail running. Her most recent body of paintings, "High Country", reflects elements of the landscape, the light and ephemera she collects in her mind as she moves through the local trails of South Lake Tahoe, California. This video is a small reflection on what it’s meant to her paintings and her life to have found a way to connect her physical body to her natural surroundings, in order to find new imagery and meaning in her work.

Camera/Edit: Bligh Gillies
Second Camera: Cheyne Lempe
Music: Louis Schwadron
Audio Mix: Andy Mead

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2021 TREMBLING GRASS / VIBRATING GRASS: RECENT PAINTINGS, Oates Park Arts Center, Fallon NV 2018 

2021 HIGH COUNTRY, Spinster Sisters, Santa Rosa, CA

2012      EVERYTHING, H Gallery Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand

2012 JULIA SCHWADRON, Paintings + Drawings, Farnham Galleries, Simpson College, Indianola, IA

2011    YOU ARE HERE, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 FIELD NOTES, 3-person exhibition, Truckee Donner Recreational Center, Atrium Gallery, Truckee, CA

2022 EYE WANT CANDY, Melhop º7077 Gallery, Zephyr Cove, NV

NO SUCH PLACE, Melhop º7077 Gallery, Zephyr Cove, NV

HOLDING PATTERN, curated by Nick Larsen, Holland Projects Galleries, Reno, NV

HOLLAND BILLBOARD PROJECT, March 2022, Wells + 2nd Street, Reno, NV

FACULTY / STAFF EXHIBITION, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA

2021 A ROOM OF THEIR OWN, Women Artists of the Sierra, Confidence Firehouse Gallery, Placerville, CA

2018     APPEARING UNANNOUNCED, curated by Sathit Sattarasart, Rikrit Tiravanija’s Studio, Chiang Mai, Thailand FORMERLY PHILLY, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA

2017     ARTISTS AT THE RENAISSANCE, curated by Eric Brooks/Sierra Arts, The Renaissance Hotel, Reno, NV

2015     THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS, curated by Sarah Lillegard + Jared Stanley, Sierra Nevada University Galleries, Incline Village, NV

2014     POSSESSION II, curated by Brian Curtin + Steve Dutton, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University, England

2013   POSSESSION, curated by Brian Curtin + Steve Dutton, Bangkok Art + Cultural Center, Thailand

YOUR FACE IS A LANDSCAPE, curated by Sara Reisman + Reina Shibata, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY

             BROOKLYN VISITS HEATH, curated by Heath Ceramics + Pam Morris, Heath Ceramics Showroom, San Francisco, CA

2012     TEMPORARY STORAGE, curated by Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Bangkok Art + Culture Center, Thailand

            DISTANCE + MAGNET + CLOSENESS, CMU Art Museum, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

2011     HEADCASE, curated by Laurel Farrin, Lesley Heller Workspace, NY, NY

2010      PULSE Art Fair, Charles James Gallery, Miami, FL

             PAPER TALK, Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Chiang Mai University Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

            COPY JAM: TEXT EDITION, A Printinteresting Curatorial Project, The Printer’s Ball, Chicago, IL

            REMNANTS, curated by Lisa Lebofsky and Melanie Doll, Fuse Gallery, NY, NY

             PALLING AROUND WITH SOCIALISTS, UTurn Artspace, Cincinnati, OH

            ONE VERTICAL UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT, curated by Mariah Dekkenga, Coe College Sinclair Art Galleries, Cedar Rapids, IA

Julia Schwadron Marianelli in her studio at Interlude Residency in Hudson, NY 2021

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