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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My work is a response to the ways in which nature and the built environment intersect. A passion for rocks, plants and the geometries in nature combines with musings about space and the nature of deep time as evidenced by the traces of former worlds here on Earth. In my latest series I call Travelogues, black and white imagery layers graffiti-style to echo this overwriting of one form with another. I chronicle my observations of nature with abstract patterns reminiscent of cells, beehives, DNA and stars, interlacing these with drawings of dinosaurs, pyramids, figures from illuminated manuscripts, mathematical formulae and made up language. This is my response to being a human being at this moment on planet Earth.