Julie Merehtu

Julie's Work focuses on systems and the movement into the in-between. Her paintings are made up of fragments, movements and levels that represent a broad range of influences. From the smaller movements to her larger scales explosions, she brings an expressive visual language into the art that deals with reality today as much as it deals with a biography of herself as an artist in the 21 century. She creates new narratives using abstracted images of cities, histories, wars and geographies with a frenetic mark making that for the artist becomes a way of signifying social agency as well as suggesting an unraveling of a personal biography. Julie’s paintings are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pen, pencil ink and thick streams of paint.  Many of her paintings refer to mapping elements and architecture that she creates into her own unique way to make her own art.