
Gallery |
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"Under the Orange
Clouds," oil
on panel, 4" x 6" |
STATEMENT: |
In recent years, my artwork has developed into two different
directions. One body of work focuses on the celebration of and
advocacy for the planting of native flowers. Ancient Flowers is the
studio-based, interior-facing manifestation of this idea. In Ancient
Flowers, I layer images of native blooms grown in my own garden and in
gardens around Kansas City. Painted with close attention to the
architecture of the flowers, these paintings are intensely saturated
and disorientating as I stack blossoms on top of one another
compositionally. I want viewers to fall in love with wildflowers in
the hopes that they will begin to recognize them, and perhaps even
plant them in their own landscapes.
Flowers For Marlborough is the site-specific, public facing variation
of this project. In Flowers For Marlborough, I paint and install large
acrylic paintings on Tyvek of native plants on the boarded up windows
of vacant buildings in the blighted neighborhood of Marlborough,
Kansas City, where I live. This project, done with permission from the
properties’ owners, seeks to call attention to the environmental and
urban decay of my neighborhood that was once lush prairie. I want to
introduce the formal and purposeful beauty of native plants to my
neighbors, as well as offer a kind of psychological relief to my
community who face the effects of living in the ugly aftermath of
Kansas City’s racist policy of redlining. As part of this project, I
winter sow native plant seedlings to give away to my neighbors in the
spring, so they can experience the joy of living with the plants and
the amazing pollinators they host. I also do painting workshops with
neighborhood children, teaching them about the importance of native
plants and using art as a way to create a communal appreciation for
them. It is my hope that Marlborough can become known not for its
blight, but for its stewardship of native plants and pollinators.
Urgent Experiments in Tending is an ongoing series of improvisational
installations that explore the complex interweaving of the roles of
mother and artist, as well as the anxieties I feel raising children in
the anthropocene. In these pieces, I bring together intimate oil
paintings on Yupo of my children and my plants, with live plants,
often in stages of propagation, to explore the impulse to love and
care for living beings, the amazement at cycles of growth and
regeneration, and the interconnection between humans and plants. The
presence of grow lights and electrical cords, as well as blue painters
tape that attaches some of the paintings to the wall, are signs of
improvisation and adaptation, survival skills for all living things,
especially during this time of ongoing and amplified climate crisis.
The eco prints of native plants and propagating succulents emphasize
the transitional and ephemeral nature of raising kids and tending to
the ecosystems in which we live. The fading dye in the ecoprints is
also a metaphor for the natural loss inherent in growth, babies become
children and then adults, succulent leaves will spawn new plants,
dying in the process. |
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RESUME: |
Education: |
2000 |
M.F.A., summa cum laude, School of
Art and Design,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL |
1997 |
B.F.A., summa cum laude, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN |
1995 |
Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing, Aix-en-Provence, France |
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Awards: |
2020-2021 |
Rosser Faculty Biennial Fellowship
Award
Sabbatical, Spring Semester, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City,
MO |
2016-2018 |
Faculty Grant, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2013-14 |
Faculty Grant, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2011 |
Faculty Grant, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2010 |
Review Studio Artist Residency
Body of Work: New Perspectives in Figure Painting 2010, National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. |
2006-2008 |
Faculty Grant, Kansas City Art
Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2004-2005 |
Incomplete List of Excellent
Teachers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL |
2003 |
Artist
Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council |
2000 |
Outstanding Teacher Award, Dept. of Art and Design, Univ. of IL ,
Urbana-Champaign, IL |
1999-2000 |
Incomplete List of Excellent
Teachers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL |
1997 |
Emil
Jaques Gold Award, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN |
1996 |
Mabel
Mountain Painting Award, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN |
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Solo Exhibitions: |
2021 |
Flowers For
Marlborough,
Marlborough Elementary School, Kansas City, MO
Flowers For Marlborough, 1157 E 77th Terrace, Mar 14- May 1,
Kansas City, MO |
2015 |
Orange Skies, Pink Morning, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2014 |
Under
the Orange Sky,
Plug Projects, KC MO |
2012 |
Ecstasy and Dreams,
Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO |
2008 |
Paintings,
South Bend Regional Museum, South Bend, IN |
2007 |
Prairiesummerheartbreak,
Zolla/Lieberman
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2005 |
Eat
My Heart Out,
Ricco/Maresca
Gallery, New York, NY |
2003 |
more
more more!,
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2002 |
SUPERFLIRT,
Zolla/Lieberman
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2001 |
Northeastern
Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Group Exhibitions: |
2020 |
The New (ab)Normal,
group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2019 |
Work@Play,
group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2018 |
Para-Natural World,
group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2017 |
Zg Summer Group show,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2016 |
Zg Winter Group show,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2015 |
Zg Winter Group show,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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In Pursuit,
H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO |
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Zg Summer Group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2014 |
Winter Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2013 |
Inner Sight/Insight: Driven to Dare,
Governor's State University, University Park, IL |
2011 |
Editions Artists Books Fair,
2011, New York, NY, represented by White Wings Press of Chicago IL |
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Hardcore Painting,
University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE |
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Emblazoned Cyphers,
University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, NE |
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Between Thee and Me,
Greenlease Gallery,
Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO |
2006 |
Narrow Margins,
H and R Block Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
2005 |
Hardcore Painting,
Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO |
2010 |
Body of Work: New
Perspectives on Figure Painting,
National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. |
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Popular Culture
Re-Constructed,
Memorial Hall Gallery, RISD, Rhode Island, DE |
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Tethered to My World, Contemporary Figure Painting: Location, Chicago, Highland Pk Art Center, IL
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Highly Personal,
Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN |
2008 |
New, Three: Kansas City Art Institute Faculty,
H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO |
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Intersections,
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
2007 |
Paper
Now,
Ispace Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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It’s Only Natural,
H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO |
2006 |
Featured Artist, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, -scope Miami 2006,
Miami, FL |
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Collect All Four,
Byron
Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
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Oh,
You Beautiful Doll,
Andrea
Meislin Gallery, New York, NY |
2005 |
Sinister,
Tarble
Museum of Fine Art, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL |
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25th
Anniversary Bookplate Show,
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Five Presses,
Arvada
Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO |
2004 |
Summer
Love,
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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The
Artist as Collector,
Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN |
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Annual Remarkable Women Show,
Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
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Holiday,
Big Cat Gallery, New York, NY |
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Scope New York 2004,
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY |
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A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer’s 40 Year Journey,
Evanston Art Center, IL |
2003 |
Emergence: Women Artists in the New Millennium,
Northern Indiana Arts, Assn., Munster, IN |
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Cold Comfort,
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN |
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Zolla/Lieberman
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Luscious Too,
Zolla/Lieberman
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2002 |
Jean
Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2001 |
Welcome to My Dollhouse,
Zolla/Lieberman
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Luscious,
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Just Install It,
collaboration, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2000 |
Out of Afar(m)
and Whoa! La
Giaconda, set design and live video installation for Whoa! La
Giaconda, Merce Cunningham Studios, New York, NY |
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Selected
Bibliography: |
2021 |
KSHB News,
Artist Uses Native Flower Paintings to Highlight KC Neighborhood
Issues, May 12, 2021
KMBC News,
Kansas City Artist Works to Beautify Her Neighborhood,
May 5, 2021 |
2016 |
Radar Online Poetry Magazine, Issues 9, January, 2016, and Issue 10,
April, 2016
Art LTd Magazine, Robin Duran, p 31 |
2015 |
Art Ltd., "Julie Farstad:
Orange Skies, Pink Morning: by Robin Dluzen, Jan / Feb, 2016, pg. 31
Chicago Tribune, Pick of the Week, Arts & Entertainment, Sect. 4, p.3.
Nov. 26, 2015, illustrated |
2011 |
ereview.org, Feminine Fancies, by Tara Kloeppell, March 26,
2011 |
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The
Kansas City Star, Traditional Meets Modern, by Dana Self, Fine
Arts Sect., p.18, Mar. 3, 2011 |
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The
Kansas City Star, A good ‘FIT’ at Review Studio by Nick
Malewski, January 27, 2011 |
2010 |
ereview.org, Julie Farstad: Post-philosophy, A profile of a painter with many
talents to choose from
Janell Meador, September 17, 2010 |
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Chicagoartmagazine.com, Phyllis Bramson’s Painters at The Art Center in Highland Park,
Robin Dluzen, September 11, 2010
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Presentmagazine.com, Presenting: Julie Farstad and Peter Warren, Janell Meador,
August 3, 2010 |
2008 |
Manhattan Arts International,
http://manhattanhartherstory.blogspot.com, Renee Phillips, 7/30/10 |
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“Women to Watch”: An Exhibition of Underrepresented Artists |
2007 |
Chicago Tribune,
Alan Artner, June 15, 2007 |
2006 |
Oh, You Beautiful Doll,
catalog, curated by Douglas F. Maxwell |
2002 -2004 |
mouthtomouth magazine, Co-Publisher,
Co-Editor |
2003 |
Chicago Tribune
Alan Artner,, section 7C, p. 29 October 24, 2003 |
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Chicago Sun-Times,
Margaret Hawkins, Weekend Plus, section p. 24, November 7, 2003 |
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Chicago Reader,
Fred Camper, Section 1, p. 39, November 14, 2003 |
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Word for Word,
interview with Maria Tomasula, mouthtomouth magazine, September
2003 |
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Sticky,
exhibition catalog, interview by Kristen Brooke Schleifer, June 2002 |
2002 |
New American Paintings,
Number 41, juror Bill Arnung, curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center |
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