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Threshold Presents Julia Freeman
07.07.2010 Threshold
Julia Freeman is a Seattle based artist originally from Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2007 with her MFA in fibers. Her work is a continuous blend of printmaking, collaging, painting and drawing. Her experience with textiles and fibers heavily influences her process and material choices. She has recently been in exhibitions at Foster/White Gallery, SOIL Art Gallery, Clemson University, Kirkland Arts Center, Richard Hugo House Art and at the Art Factory in Seoul, South Korea. She was recently nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award for the second time in 2010 and was a finalist in the Miami University Young Painters Competitions.
“Conceived as a self-reflexive portrait of familiar/personal alienation, theses pieces became for me
a meditation on the supports we build because we must: uneasy attempts at stability, built rapidly
and often shoddily for perceived needs of the moment.
This series explores my sense of vertigo as crisis—reading movement where there is none, not
knowing up from down—and also as something which opens the possibility of lightness, of the
uncertain potential of losing stability.
The fabrics used here—collected from my own and my family’s clothing—play with familiarity
disguised, the original traits present but distorted, obscured and made distant.”
-Julia Freeman
Show dates: July 1st – August 12th, 2010
THRESHOLD is a space for creative inquiry and exposure showcasing local and regional art in a variety of mediums. As architects, we believe art can influence and shape ideas in the built world. Of special interest is work that demonstrates innovative vision with an awareness of current issues. We choose to use our lobby as an ever-evolving transition space open to all kinds of circumstance and creativity.
THRESHOLD is open 8am-5pm…..Mon-Fri…..exhibitions cycle every 6 weeks
Artist Inquiry…..contact: cristinab@mithun.com
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