Bland has had solo exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery, On Stellar Rays, Helena Anrather, and Miller Contemporary in New York, and at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago. She is currently included in Abstranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY, and was recently featured in Even Thread Has a Speech at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI.
She has been an artist in residence at The Macdowell Colony, Yaddo, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lighthouse Works, The Sharpe-Walentas Space Program, The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and The Shandaken Project: Storm King. She is a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Craft/Sculpture from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and has received awards including The Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship, The Carol Scholsberg Memorial Prize, amongst others. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art.
The Department of Art Presents Visiting Artist Julia Bland, October 19, 2021 @6:30Pm email dbrown15@ithaca.edu for the Zoom link.
By Doreen Brown, October 13, 2021
JULIA BLAND (b. 1986) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Bland’s works incorporate painting and weaving, developing the structures, symbols, and patterns that bind disparate elements into a whole.
Moth, 2019
“ARTIST JULIA BLAND makes artworks that exist somewhere in the space between painting, sculpture, and tapestry. Her experimental process incorporates stitching, weaving, knotting, dying, and even burning her materials. The results are gorgeous abstractions with geometric compositions that have tactile presence in the room.
Moth, 2019. Hand woven textile, hand dyed canvas and wool, linen, threads, hand twisted and braided ropes, wax, oil paint, 64" X 104"