"Julia Hensley's works on paper are saturated and warped. They dangle from thumb tacks. Simple painted shapes are carefully cut and scattered within and throughout seas of blended color, transforming two-dimensional works into a floor-to-ceiling explosion. To step back is to witness Hensley's illogical architecture; her own angst-ridden order. Not only does it work, it captivates."

Exerpt from Angie Jones's review of "Inspired Geometries" at Form-Space-Light Gallery in 2008. To read the full review click here.

"Seattle painter and Pratt Instructor Julia Hensley is unveiling two of her most recent works on paper completed in late winter of this year. She is well known for her meticulously crafted and intimately scaled abstract urban landscapes. Her previous work organized the “banal chaos of urban detail” into flattened grids of carefully modulated, painted and cut paper squares and rectangles interwoven together not unlike a quilt or one of Mondrian’s grid’s.

Julia’s latest work, the expansive and seminal piece “This Storied Heart” represents a breakthrough in her evolution of working with the grid and cubic pixilation. Moving away from strictly depicting urban scenes and external realities she is now staking new ground in the realm of the true “non-objective” composition.

Working in a looser and highly intuitive way, “This Storied Heart” represents a slow natural accretion of cubic pixels, color washes and elusive imagery with no contrivance by the artist during the process. The result is a collage of remarkable organic complexity that visually mirrors the vicissitudes and intricacies of life and the human heart with a photographic clarity. Demonstrating equal measures technical skill and emotional sensitivity Julia has lead us to a place unforeseen at the beginning of her latest artistic journey."

Excerpt from the press release by John Parkinson for the group show, "Inspired Geometries", at Form-Space-Light Gallery in 2008.

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Inspired Geometries

Julia Hensley, Joseph Keppler, John Parkinson, Mike Sweeney

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Recent Painting and Sculpture

Form-Space-Light Gallery

619 N. 35^th St.

Suite 100

Seattle, WA 98103

June 6^th thru July 20^th, 2008

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"Julia Hensley uses an invented perspective informed by cubism, pixilation, quilts, and Mondrian's grids, in which the city is seen as if from above and head on simultaneously. Her paintings and collages create an interesting friction between surface and illusory space. While her work [in this show] is derived from Northwest places, it also exists in an ultimately abstract, imaginary realm."

 Exerpt from the press release for Looking Out, Looking In, a curated group show at the Kirkland Arts Center in 2008. To read the full release, click here.

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Looking Out, Looking In

Curated by Kamla Kakaria

January 10-February 11, 2008

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Kirkland Arts Center Gallery

620 Market Street

Kirkland, WA 98033