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benjaminJulia Karll

Artist
Columbia, MO

Julia Karll is a MFA graduate from the University of Kansas (2007) where she studied Textile Design.  She received her BFA in Photography and a BA in Fibers at Truman State University (2003). Although Karll is a recent graduate, here work has been included in numerous exhibitions and residencies across the country.  In the 2008-2009 school year Ms. Karll held a position as Lecturer of Art in drawing and design at Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, and in Spring 2009 collaborated with the American Creative Dance (ACD) Company in New York City, creating original artwork for the dance company to move with and around for their performance Judith. 

Founder of the ACD, Nancy Vining Van Ness, reviewed her work in an article titled Art in the Time of Crisis in the Women’s International Perspective and Ms. Karll’s work was included in 2 articles in the Denver Post following her residency at PlatteForum (2008), coinciding with the Democratic National Convention.  Ms. Karll has also been an artist in residence with the Colorado Art Ranch (2007) and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (2008).

Ms. Karll is currently a Missouri Clean Water AmeriCorps Volunteer, with Missouri River Communities Network in Columbia, MO.  She has been planning and organizing the Rain Barrel Art Review, an event inviting artists to paint rain barrels in an effort to raise awareness of storm water conservation and stream health. She hopes this turn in her career will create a foundation of direct service in art, social justice and the environment.

About the DIA Project
Read.  React. Record.  This is how I process the news. Sometimes sad, sometimes overwhelming, but none the less I feel the draw to read and to know and to acknowledge, good and bad, what is going on in the world.  We must not be overwhelmed by the news, but to keep asking questions, finding the meaning, and the beauty.  I continue to search for answers to “why?”

Knotted was constructed through twisting strips of newspaper and connecting them into long, thick ropes, tied together into an intestine-like knot.  I use recycled materials in my work, newspapers, old video tape, found objects, not only for environmental concerns and ease of availability but to bring additional layers of meaning into the work. The printed news, radio and television (video and audio tape) bring world events into my consciousness, the good and the bad.  This media can seem at times to be my connection to these far away events.

Using actual news stories as my material from which I create the work allows me to create something enticing out of the things which trouble me.

I hope to create a parallel, to draw in the viewer by the textures, shapes, shadows and movement, in the same way as I am drawn to the news.

 

 


 

  

33 IDEAS!, an exhibit of art, writing and ideas
March 15-June 15, 2010

Denver International Airport

DIA PostcardThis exhibit showcases visual and literary artists associated with Colorado Art Ranch as presenters, artists in residence, or Nomads at one or more Artposia. The artists were selected because they use their passion, skills, knowledge, and talent to ask questions and react to the world around them. The work, in turn, inspires us to ask questions and view the world from different perspectives.

33 IDEAS! is on display at the Ansbacher Hall: The Art of Colorado, on the walkway between the terminal and A Gates before the security screening. The hall is accessible for everyone’s enjoyment.

For more information contact DIA Art Program at
(303) 342-2521 or visit www.flydenver.com/art

 

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