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Joanne Julian
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EARLY LIFE
Joanne Julian Armenian American Artist who was born in San Fernando Valley, California. In her early life, she was raised by her first-generation parents, their teaching and structure had relied upon her family's history. Both of her grandparents had fled to the United States during the Armenia Genodice. Her parents had a way of discipline and motivation to assure Joanne would achieve and pursue her goals. Furthermore, in her college life at California State University of Northridge, she obtained her BA and MA in sculpture and printmaking. During this time she began her journey by o teaching for the City of Los Angeles which eventually lead to teaching at the College of the Canyons. Moving on five years later she was able to earn her MFA at Otis Art Institute in painting. She began her journey of sharing her artwork and being represented in areas like Los Angeles, La Jolla, San Francisco, and New York.

ART WORK
Joanne Julian exhibited at the Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles, Thomas Babeor Gallery, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Newport Harbor Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LACMA, and more. Her creations include printmaking, Zen Buddhist ink paintings, calligraphy, botanical and avian illustrations, and abstract composition. She has been known for her calming "zen " pieces, Robert Mcdonald a create of La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Arts has also mentioned that she has a reductive style and causes people to be at ease. In total Joanne has had 20 solo exhibitions and been amongst 60 group exhibitions nationally as well. All of her achievements have now brought her to be College of the Canyons Art Gallery Director.

Zen Aesthetics
It is known that artist Joanne Julian revolves her artwork amongst emotions and inner peace. Her art contains bold calligraphic strokes and specific color templates that create a story behind her work. Julian's style of art has included the use of acrylic, sumi ink, Prisma color pencils, and graphite. One of her collections "Defying DarknesS" included 30 pieces within 3 decades of her as an artist. This exhibition allowed viewers to see how much more space there is in darkness. It had shown a variety of emotions between the medium of light and darkness like fear and joy but as well as life as a whole.

Citiations
https://artfulamphora.com/2017/02/studio-joanne-julian//ref> https://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=36&aID=3916/ref> http://www.joannejulian.com/Biography/ref>