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Julie Simon

Multidisciplinary, Multidisciplinary Art

Julie Simon uses photography much as an abstract painter would use a paintbrush. Color, shape, and movement are generated photographically and blended digitally. Where a painter might use a variety of brushes and paints to layer the canvas with texture and color, She intentionally move and jerk the camera, capturing frames filled with movement and light.

She is much inspired by the ideas of the mid-20th century color field painters, but taking their ideas of form and process and updating them with a 21st century digital twist. She blends elements from many layered photographs focusing on the photographic basics of form - light, texture and color - more than the actual content of the original images(s), to bring out the purity of medium, a process she calls "Digital Expressionism".

About the Artist

Julie Simon has been working with the photographic process for more than 40 years - first in television news, and then in corporate media and education. She has exhibited her experimental video, photographic, and interactive work on television and in art galleries/museums and on the web, winning a number of prestigious awards for a wide range of media projects.  Simon is a Professor at the University of Baltimore where she teaches photography and video production.    

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Featured Work

Photos

Archival Digital Photo Collage
Archival Digital Photo Collage
Archival Digital Photo Collage
Archival Digital Photo Collage
Archival Digital Photo Collage
Archival Digital Photo Collage

Videos

  • Excerpt: "Multiply, in Parts"

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    Multiplication tables and art don’t necessarily seem to go together. However, the relationship, rhythm, and patterns found in math are artistic at their core. “Multiply, in Parts” visualizes the 2 times table, the 4 times table, and the 8 times table, in abstraction, over time.

    What you see here is the second act, "Four Times in Cmaj".
    Medium: Experimental Video
    Year: 2015
    Details: 4:01

  • Twill

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    Twill is a textile pattern of diagonal ribs. This experimental video explores what happens when you apply that weave structure to lines of video.
    Medium: Experimental Video
    Year: 2020
    Details: 2:12

Booking

Available for Artist Talks statewide.