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Joanne Julian was born In Los Angeles CA on May 20, 1941. In 1973 she was Chair of the fine art department and Gallery in CA. Joanne is Armenian raised with immigrant parents. Julian has mounted 20 exhibitions and over 60 group exhibitions nationally. She has exhibited at Jan Baum Gallery [Los Angeles], Thomas Babeor Gallery [La Jolla], Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Newport Harbor Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and many others. Critic Robert McDonald, past senior curator of the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, says, "She has developed a reductive style," and adds, "Critics have often identified a Zen quality in her work...a gentle merging of natures, a unification of humanity and all living things, of yin and yang, the discipline and spirit of Taoist painting." McDonald also wrote, "The works of Joanne Julian remind us that drawing is a physical enterprise. With the sureness of an athlete or a dancer, she has always tamed energy with grace. She has lectured students in many institutions including Art Center College of Design, Glendale College, University of California, Los Angeles, and California State University, Northridge. Public collections of her work include, Atlantic Richfield, Bank of America, Grand Wailea Resort, Home Savings of America, The Irvine Company, Nestle, Nikko, Price Waterhouse, and Teneco Oil. Joanne Julian's artwork is inspired by Zen aesthetics. Julian has traveled many places all over the world for inspiration for her artwork. She has traveled to Japan, where she absorbed her technique of Zen masters. She received her BA and MA degrees in sculpture and printmaking from California State University, Northridge and her MFA degree in painting from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. Author Betty Ann Brown sees Julian as "a modern American master of haboku ('flung ink' style.) Some exhibitions Julian had been the 2017 Joanne Julian: Defying Darkness, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA. As well as the 1996 Joanne Julian, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA.