#J.L.Abraham

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Attach (color), 2018 Woodcut with watercolor on Mulberry paper. 38 x 26 in.

The Barbara Walters Gallery at the Barbara Walters Campus Center part of Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to present its latest exhibit, Working Paper by Julie Abraham. The exhibit runs through March 22.

Language and color are her subjects. In her mind’s eye, Minimalism meets "Pattern and Decoration," Gertrude Stein meets the Albers (Anni and Josef).

As a printmaker, she paints through printing. As a painter, she threads through printed grids. Printing, she turns text into drawing, language into pattern. In her painting, shades make statements of their own.

The geometries that result are rarely read as letters (even when they once were)—more often as evocations of the flat space of architectural plans, the bulk of the built environment, or the technological mazes in which we live. https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/news-events/events/detail/10286

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Not unordered, 2019 Watercolor on Fabriano paper. 22 x 30 in.

The Barbara Walters Gallery at the Barbara Walters Campus Center part of Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to present its latest exhibit, Working Paper by Julie Abraham. The exhibit runs through March 22.

Printmaking is a queer art. Treated as a marginal practice. Once an imitation—the mode by which paintings or drawings were reproduced. Now a phase—touted as a respite from or an aid to more serious work. Multiplying images that are and are not the same, repetitions that should but might not be identical, printmakers act out the excess and the confusion of sameness and difference key to persisting cultural fantasies about queer persons.

Printmaking is my practice because it embraces the imitation and the phase, flirts with excess, questions sameness and difference, and lets me play—through shape, color, repetition, variation, and juxtaposition, with language, place, and histories. http://www.jlabrahamprintmaker.com/artists-statement