EDUCATION:
2008-2009 Massachusetts
College of Art, Expected MFA degree in 2010
1997-2001 The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University,
BFA Degree in Fine Arts, with Honors
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
2009 www.5RedBalls.com, online gallery
2008-2009 Petersham Craft Center, 8 North St., Petersham
2008
Cambridge Artists
Cooperative, 59A Church St., Cambridge
2007-2008 Tristan Gallery, 148 Commercial St. Provincetown
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo Exhibitions:
2007
Veggies on Display, The Biscuit, Somerville
Fruit, the Robert Edward Salon,
Newton
2006
Fruit with a View, Wu Chon
House, Somerville
2005 New Paintings, Gallery Exhibit, Coldwell Banker, Cambridge
2002 The Environments Hue, Gallery at the Stoneham
Public Library, Stoneham
Group Exhibitions:
2010 HOLY,
Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
2009 Directory Exhibition, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
What Is BIG?, Brickbottom Gallery,
Somerville
The Natural World, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
Silent
Auction, Joy Street Studios, Somerville
Armory ART Start!, Arts at the Armory, Somerville
Museum Show, Somerville Museum, Somerville
2008
Silent Auction, Joy Street Studios, Somerville
Museum Show, Somerville Museum, Somerville
Directory Exhibition, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
Fire, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
2007
Mindscapes, Mass General Hospital, Intercontinental Hotel, Boston
Silent Auction, Joy Street
Studios, Somerville
Directory Exhibition, Brickbottom
Gallery, Somerville
Silent Art Auction, Annual HRC Diner and Auction, Boston
Museum Show, Somerville Museum, Somerville
Inner Life, 1581 Gallery, Brookline
2006
The December Store, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
Directory Exhibition, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
Colors
Notebook,
Colors Magazine, Pompidou Center, Paris
Passage of Time, ArtBar, Boston
Silent Art Auction, 25th Annual HRC Diner and Auction, Boston
Present Tense, ArtSPACE@16 Gallery, Malden
A Thousand Words, 1581 Gallery, Brookline
Museum Show, Somerville Museum, Somerville
2005
What Is BIG?, Brickbottom
Gallery, Somerville
Midland Arts Association Spring Show, Museum of the
Southwest, Midland, TX
Directory Exhibition, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
Museum Show, Somerville Museum, Somerville
The December Store, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville
2004
Blue Ribbon Show, Cohasset
Art Gallery, Cohasset
Directory Exhibition, Brickbottom
Gallery, Somerville
2001
Edible Art 2001, Silent Auction,
Shreve, Crump & Low, Boston
Recent Works, 601 Newbury St. Gallery, Boston
The Boston Printmakers North American
Student Print Exhibition,
800 Gallery, Boston
Graduate Exhibition 2001, 700 Gallery, Boston
2000
Paintings, 601 Newbury St. Gallery, Boston
1999
ARTnite an Auction of Fine Art and Photography, 700 Gallery, Boston
The Picture of Aging, Central
Boston Elder Services, Veronique
at Longwood Towers, Boston
1998 The Boston Printmakers North American Student Print
Exhibition,
800 Gallery, Boston
NEWSPAPER REVIEW:
2005 “In a group show, artists embrace a faux naive style … Julie McAskill's
entrancing ''Odd One Out" features brown
paper pressed on canvas, all wrinkled and grainy, in three sections. The two
outside strips of paper feature cutouts to still lifes of pears. The texture
of the paper is like skin, and it's hypnotic; the revelation of traditional still lifes beneath beautifully conflates the
domesticity of grocery shopping with tensions between contemporary art and art history.”
- Cate McQuaid, the Boston Globe, July 29, 2005
ART ASSOCIATIONS AND COMMITTEES:
2008-2009 Cambridge Artists’ Cooperative, Website Manager, Cambridge
2007-2008 Cambridge Artists’ Cooperative Gallery and Website
Manager, Cambridge
2004-2009 Joy
Street Studios Open Studios Coordinator, Somerville
2006-2009 Board of Directors, Brickbottom Artists Association,
Somerville -
Joy
Street Studios liaison,
Baguette editor, Brickbottom Open
Studios Committee (2006), Health Insurance liaison (2007)
2004-2009 Member, Brickbottom Artists Association, Somerville
2003-2004
Member, South Shore Art Center,
Cohasset
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
The Boston Public Library
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
Massasoit Community College
Newton Housing Authority
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Beatrice Picano
Karen D. Ramacorti
ARTISTS
STATEMENT
In the paintings, texture is created from gesso and paper on
the surface of the canvas. The background texture of the paintings create
an atmosphere for its inhabitants to live in, that is reminiscent to the natural and organic world the fruit, eggs, and vegetables
came from. Outgoing fruit personalities mainly seem to reside precariously on
top of jagged surfaces; while, the secretive or guilty of conscience try to sneak away and hide, although unsuccessfully. They opt for the supposed security inside the safety of folds and protrusions around
them. But no matter what their goal, we, the viewer, are always close by,
looking in on them.
An egg, a cherry, a pepper, just
some of the subjects appearing in the paintings, though they may start off as eggs, fruit and vegetables, they soon begin to transform in their new world. They no longer exist as the objects
they once were, but are re-imagined as something greater. They begin to
convey their own personalities. Through this elevation their new persona enables them to acquire and display individual personality traits unique to each of them.
