March 14, 2013
"Self-awareness is the like-minded end goal of both yoga and art making. Julie Weitz’s new series of drawing on photographs, exhibited at The Suburban aligns the two practices into a sensually stimulating whole..."
January 27, 2013
The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
Julie Weitz and Kamrooz Aram are showing together at The Suburban in Oak Park, IL through March 2013. Both artists find inspiration from the endgame of Modernism, geometric patterning and Eastern traditions. Weitz explores the embodied self and triangulation of identity using geometric forms superimposed onto photographs of yogis. Aram explores the complicated relationship between traditional Eastern art forms and Western Modernism, specifically as related to the notion of the decorative.
January 11, 2013
July 24, 2012
Inova, Milwaukee, WI
The exhibition will present a selection of work by artists who have studied with Grabner as students, representing a larger picture of her influences, pedagogy and her orbit in the field of contemporary art...
April 22, 2012
"The works were like alien diamonds. As if the universe and time were represented in a gem stone these limited palette, multifaceted gem stones would be it. So minimal and restrained yet with an optical power that is achieved by the careful selection of surfaces and material. The works hummed and vibrated as the matte, gloss, variegated, lenticular surfaces competed for your ocular attention. At times the 2 dimensions would shift and you were convinced that what you were looking at was in 3D..."
February 10, 2012
William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH