Julia Rommel
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Julia Rommel | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 44–45) Salisbury, Maryland, U.S. |
| Known for | painting |
Julia Rommel is an American painter. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum.
- Long Leash, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA, 2020[1][better source needed]
- Fall Guy, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway, 2019
- Candy Jail, Bureau, New York, 2019
- Twin Bed, Bureau at Tanya Leighton, 2018
- A Cheesecake with Your Name on It, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA, 2016
- Two Italians, Six Lifeguards, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, November 2015 – April 2016 (curated by Amy Smith-Stewart)[2]
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Julia Rommel is an American abstract painter.[3][4] Her early paintings were typically monochromes of blacks and muted colors.[5] Rommel make paintings of various sizes with cool to warm color palettes of blues, greys, reds and bright citrus hues.[6] She makes her paintings using a construction and deconstruction process.[7][8] Rommel’s laborious process of painting includes cutting and sanding the canvas, and wiping away and adding layers of paint.[6][9] Her working method stresses the canvas surfaces with physical manipulation, and admits frayed edges and staple holes.[6][9] Rommel allows imperfection in her painting which gives her work a handmade aesthetic.[10] “Whenever I approach what looks like an existing modernist painting, I know I have to change something,” says Rommel in an interview with Art in America, “I try to mess up the painting to prevent a fixed reading that reflects an established tradition.”[11]
