Bio
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Julia Hensley is an artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa and currently living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her undergraduate painting degree from Boston University, where the legacies of Philip Guston, James Weeks, sculptor John Wilson and program founder, David Aronson provided a flexible scaffolding rooted in drawing. She has exhibited her work in Seattle WA, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, CA and New York, NY.
Artist's Statement
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I like to make a mess then find the structure, like feeling the walls of a cave in the dark. Inspiration comes from everywhere: cactus blossoms, a gum wrapper caught in a tree, Basquiat in Boston, the Bayeux tapestry, cliff walls, carbon molecules, a Rothko I saw in San Francisco. Graffiti on my walks fascinates me - pristine or painted over, always in flux.
Currently, I'm exploring space in all its dimensions - 2D, 3D, inner and outer. Whether working abstractly or from the seen world, it's all about the architecture. I work in any medium that comes to hand, lately favoring the least water-intensive. While I love color, I'm immersed in how black and white exposes the bones of things.