Julie Umerle

Julie Umerle

Eclipse
Born Julie Umerle
Connecticut, United States
Nationality British, American
Education Falmouth University
Parsons The New School for Design
Known for Painting
Website
www.julieumerle.com

Julie Umerle is an American-born abstract painter who lives and works in London.

Early life and education

Born in Connecticut USA to an English mother and an American father, her family moved to London when she was five.

Umerle studied French Literature at the University of Sussex and gained a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Falmouth University with First-class honours.[1]

She completed her art education in New York City, graduating from Parsons The New School for Design with a Master of Fine Arts in 1998. After graduation she lived and worked between London and New York for a further five years before returning to the UK in 2003.

Work

In April 1995 Herbert Art Gallery and Museum hosted Julie Umerle’s first museum exhibition of paintings including works such as Paragon, Flock and Wrap.[2] In London, exhibitions include Royal Academy of Arts, Barbican Arts Centre and Christie's. Early exhibitions in New York were at Artists Space and AIR Gallery. Internationally, she has also shown in Berlin, Paris, Philadelphia and Miami.[3]

Umerle makes work that explores the materiality of paint. Paintings that exist at the meeting point of decision and accident.[4]

Latitude, 2007, Acrylic on canvas

Her paintings make the viewer aware of the trail of the brush, the pressure of the artist's hand and the degree to which one mark can differ under varying circumstances. Her work sets up conditions for chance and responds to the physicality of paint.[5]

Julie Umerle, Cosmos or Chaos, studio1.1 London, 2010

In 2009, British artist and art historian Simon Morley wrote:

Her paintings evoke a feeling of suspension, as if what we see is a held or frozen moment within an ongoing process. This sense of simplicity is achieved through an enormous process of condensation, resulting in a level of clarity and unity that permeates the work.[6]

Her works are held in public and private collections including The Deutsche Bank Collection, Swindon Art Gallery, The Connaught and Madison Museum of Fine Art.

Umerle has been the recipient of several awards from Arts Council England (2015, 2008, 2007 and 2005)[7] and an individual support award from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in 2001.

References

  1. ↑ "Julie Umerle - Falmouth University". Falmouth.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  2. ↑ "Julie Umerle : Recent Paintings.". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  3. ↑ "The Drawing Center - Viewing Program - Julie Umerle". Drawingcenter.org. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  4. ↑ "Julie Umerle at studio1.1". studio1.1. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
  5. ↑ "Julie Umerle: New Paintings". NY Arts Magazine. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  6. ↑ "Julie Umerle : Cosmos or Chaos.". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  7. ↑ "Julie Umerle : Arts Council England". Artscouncil.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-02-25.

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