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Julie Umerle
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Biography
Julie Umerle is an American-born artist based in London. She studied fine art at University College Falmouth and then at Parsons School of Design, New York, where she received her MFA . She currently lives and works in the East End of London.
Julie Umerle has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include a solo show, Cosmos or Chaos, at studio1.1, London in 2010. Group shows include Unearthed at Warton House, London in 2011, Parsons Alumni Art in Miami, at the Caridi Gallery, Miami in 2010 and The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London in 2009.
Umerle is the recipient of several awards from Arts Council England (2009, 2007, 2005) and a 2001 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation award.
Artist Statement
Umerle's paintings are a combination of precision and chance. Materiality of paint and attention to surface are countered by a strong compositional element within the structure of the work. Layer upon layer of paint is built up, each layer intersecting with the previous. The canvases are slowly worked, allowing gravity to direct the flow of paint.
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