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Julie Anne Mann
often
works in series, many of them ongoing. In ‘Mortifera’ she has
reconfigured the bones, feathers, or wings of deceased animals to create new
mutant, hybrid creatures. Each specimen is titled in Latin, reflecting its
attributes, and reminiscent of Darwinian evolutionary samples. She says they
are “Familiar and alien at the same time. They resemble insects/animals from
a dead world, while still retaining the elegance and symmetry found in our
immensely diverse eco-structure.” ‘Forest Portraits’
is a series of works in
silver leaf that have
been reverse-etched on walnut burl veneer. In this series she says she is
looking to “depict the unusually anthropomorphic
nature of trees found on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.” Other
works, like those in the series ‘Botanicals’, are created from
large accumulations of seeds and pods. Some are threatening, as with
“The Wood of Suicides”, a giant sphere of countless thorny water
chestnut pods, an invasive aquatic plant, or “The Devil’s Sun”,
which is constructed from hundreds of the barbed seed of the southwestern
plant known as 'devil's claw' or ‘wood spider’. A less ominous piece titled
“A
Thousand Wishes” contains
thousands of fluffy dandelion seed heads.
Julie Anne
Mann received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in
NYC. Her work was recently exhibited at the Hoyt Street Community Garden,
Brooklyn, NY; the Hewitt Gallery of Art at Marymount Manhattan College, NY;
the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY; Go North Gallery in Beacon, NY, and
Shadow’s Space Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Her awards include a Fellowship
Residency through the Arts Alliance LES Rotating Studio Program, as well as
grants from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the
Brooklyn Arts Council. She currently lives and works in New York City.
More images of Julie’s work can be seen at
www.julieannemann.com.
This exhibition is funded in part by The Golub Foundation and the New York
State Council on the Arts, a state agency. The Courthouse Gallery hours
during exhibitions are Tuesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 –
4 pm, and all other times by appointment. The Courthouse Gallery is located
at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and
Lower Amherst Streets, Lake George, NY. For more information call (518)
668-2616, email:
mail@lakegeorgearts.org, or visit
www.lakegeorgearts.org.
Exhibition reviews online:
The Free George
Nippertown
The Post Star
Get Visual
Times Union
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This exhibition
is made possible with support from
The Golub Foundation
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