JULIE SPIELMAN

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Contact
r.gestestudio@gmail.com

Biography
Julie Spielman is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Previously working under the monikers Galería Perdida and R. Geste, her exhibitions include: Essays on Abstraction Part 6, The Fold, Los Angeles; Intertwine, curated by Aandrea Stang, University Gallery CSDH, Agnes, Hernando’s Hideaway, Miami; A Sunset Mistaken for the Dawn, Niche Gallery, Los Angeles; Oh Is It, Expert, Todd Madigan Gallery, Bakersfield; All Else is Pale, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City; And Per Se And, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Routine Pleasures, curated by Michael Ned Holte, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; I want to blush, f***ers, JOAN, Los Angeles; Zelda Zonk, Curated by Timothée Chaillou, Preface Gallery, Paris; Somos fabricantes de alimentos en cuero and Todo la memoria del mundo, curated by Fabiola Isa, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City; Let’s Smell it Together, CUE Foundation, New York; El carne de burro no es transparente, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles; and Matryoshka, Recess Activities, New York.

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Statement

Julie Spielman’s multidisciplinary practice gives form to the slippage and eventual recovery of meaning that occurs through feeling, repetition, translation, and interpretation. There is power in surrendering to the atmospheric and the unknown. Once concrete ideas start to fray, fissures appear, and space opens up where optimism and defeatism can rub shoulders. The time-based elements of language, sound, film, and dance are embedded in Spielman’s practice and reveal themselves through visually atmospheric compositions that hint at the poetic and the absurd. In her recent abstract sculptural tapestries — whether wall hangings or aluminum-encased floor works — words float within a sea of visual static, as though their very presence transforms fields of color into ambient, striated patterns. There’s movement here. And time. Language is loosed from its constraints, hovers in a visual field, then dissipates. Unfixed. Open-ended. Pointless, to a point. The gray areas of dark humor.