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Joanne Julian
Joanne Julian was born in Los Angeles and is known for her works on paper of our organic world, and she has mastered media over her long career. These include printmaking, botanical and avian illustration, Zen Buddhist ink painting, calligraphy, and abstract composition. Julian is an artist whose oeuvre is informed by Zen aesthetics. She creates calligraphic ink strokes and splashes in a very energetic yet thoughtful manner. The artist has traveled extensively, most significant are her visits to Japan, where she observed and absorbed the techniques of Zen masters. In her drawings of koi and birds, in particular, one can sense this influence and reverence for that aesthetic.

Website: http://www.joannejulian.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joannejulianstudio/

Early Life and Education
Joanne Julian was raised in San Fernando Valley by her first-generation Armenian parents. There was a lot of structure and discipline in her household, where hard work, good grades, good behavior, and good manners were the main expectations. She went to public school and worked her way through college, teaching for the City of Los Angeles and doing clerical work at California State University, Northridge. Within five years, she completed two BAs and an MA, hoping to be able to support herself as a studio artist by teaching college. During the next five years of teaching at College of the Canyons, she saved enough to attend Otis Art Institute, earning her MFA while maintaining that job. She was lucky enough to study with inspiring artists Charles White and Emerson Woelffer. By that time, she was already showing my work and was represented by Jan Baum Gallery in LA and was also represented in San Francisco, La Jolla, and New York City. Eventually, she also taught at CSUN and the Art Center College of Design. She has had studios in Pasadena, downtown LA, Studio City, and Mandalay Beach. She has been able to pursue her passion as a studio artist with the assistance of other great dealers like Neal Menzies, who placed many of her works in corporate collections in Europe and Asia.

Art
Joanne Julian creates large works on paper combining various drawings and painting media. Her interest in gardening and nature at a young age has made her subject matter include palm trees, botanicals, ravens, fish, insects, water, skies, stars, and galaxies. Her work flows from prints to paintings to drawings, using techniques from Japan that embrace simplification of form and free strokes. The series, Zen Circles, combines boldly dramatic free brush strokes with the detailed painting of traditional Japanese hairstyles or natural elements like water or air. More Asian influence is found in paintings of ginkgo leaves and goldfish that begin with daubs or drips of color around which controlled brush strokes form images. As you can tell, she has studied and traveled to Asia, which is noticeable in her work. Critic Robert McDonald, a 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 reminds us that drawing is a physical enterprise. With the sureness of an athlete or a dancer, she has always tamed energy with grace. A sense of energy in motion, irrespective of imagery, dominates her works. They are both refined and vigorous, dramatic and beguiling, complex and reductive." He concludes that her works are truly exceptional, saying, "They are visual, yet they also have qualities associated with music and dance. They express graphically the energy that informs all phenomena."

Exhibitions

 * 2019 Joanne Julian: New Work, VITA Art Center, Ventura, CA Monumentalis: Works on Paper, Garo Z. Antreasian and Joanne Julian, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
 * 2017 Joanne Julian: Defying Darkness, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
 * 2015 Garden Portraits, Valley Performing Arts Center, CSUN, Northridge, CA
 * 2008 Joanne Julian: Counterpoints, California State University Northridge, CA
 * 1999 Joanne Julian - New Images: An Homage to Teshigahara, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA Fluid Gestures, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
 * 1996 Joanne Julian, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
 * 1995 The Paintings and Drawings of Don Bachardy and Joanne Julian, Vincent Price Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 * 1987 Joanne Julian - Paintings and Drawings, Thomas Babeor Gallery La Jolla, CA
 * 1986 Joanne Julian - Mostly Bouquets, California State University, Northridge, CA Joanne Julian, Transamerica Occidental Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
 * 1985 Joanne Julian - Recent Work, The Edge Gallery, Fullerton, CA Joanne Julian - Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
 * 1984 Joanne Julian, Cypress College, Cypress, CA Joanne Julian, Recent Work, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA Wigs and Knots, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 * 1983 Joanne Julian - Recent Works, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA
 * 1982 Joanne Julian - Mural Drawings and Other New Work, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 * 1980 Joanne Julian - Drawings, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA Joanne Julian - New Work, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 * 1977 Joanne Julian - Recent Drawings and Paintings, College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
 * 1973 The Drawings and Paintings of Joanne Julian, The Point Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Joanne Julian: Drawings and Prints, California State University, Northridge, CA