Julia Rommel
Julia Rommel | |
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Born | 1980 (age 43–44) Salisbury, Maryland, U.S. |
Known for | painting |
Julia Rommel is an American painter. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum.
Exhibitions
- Long Leash, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA, 2020[1][better source needed]
- Fall Guy, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway, 2019
- Candy Jail, Bureau, New York, 2019
- Twin Bed, Bureau at Tanya Leighton, 2018
- A Cheesecake with Your Name on It, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA, 2016
- Two Italians, Six Lifeguards, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, November 2015 – April 2016 (curated by Amy Smith-Stewart)[2]
Work
Julia Rommel is an American abstract painter.[3][4] Her early paintings were typically monochromes of blacks and muted colors.[5] Rommel make paintings of various sizes with cool to warm color palettes of blues, greys, reds and bright citrus hues.[6] She makes her paintings using a construction and deconstruction process.[7][8] Rommel’s laborious process of painting includes cutting and sanding the canvas, and wiping away and adding layers of paint.[6][9] Her working method stresses the canvas surfaces with physical manipulation, and admits frayed edges and staple holes.[6][9] Rommel allows imperfection in her painting which gives her work a handmade aesthetic.[10] “Whenever I approach what looks like an existing modernist painting, I know I have to change something,” says Rommel in an interview with Art in America, “I try to mess up the painting to prevent a fixed reading that reflects an established tradition.”[11]
Collections
Among the museums holding her work are: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.[12][13][14]
Publications
- Julia Rommel, texts by Rebecca Bengal and Julia Rommel, edited by Arno Baudin and Julia Rommel, Zolo Press, 2021, 288 pages, 235 × 305 mm, 800 copies, printed in Belgium.[15]
References
- ^ "Goodnight Light". overduinandco.com.
- ^ "Julia Rommel: Two Italians, Six Lifeguards". The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ "Julia Rommel - Why I Paint". phaidon.com. November 24, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ "Julia Rommel". artland.com. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ Wolpow, Nina (April 2019). "Julia Rommel: Candy Jail". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ a b c "Julia Rommel: Two Italians, Six Lifeguards". aldrichart.org. November 15, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ "Julia Rommel at Bureau". artforum.com. May 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ "Julia Rommel at Bureau". artspeak.nyc. November 6, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ a b "Julia Rommel's first solo museum exhibition on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum". artdaily.cc. December 13, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ Vogel, Maria (April 18, 2019). "Julia Rommel continues to embrace painting's imperfections". artofchoice.co. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ Smith, William S. (December 1, 2016). "Julia Rommel at Bureau". artinamerica.com. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ "Julia Rommel". moma.org. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ "Collection". whitney.org. Archived from the original on April 6, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ "Painting Overtakes Pixels in Aldrich Museum Exhibition". The New York Times. February 18, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ Bengal, Rebecca (2021). Julia Rommel. Zolo Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-1-7345275-2-0.