Julia C R Gray
Julia C R Gray
has shown her work publicly in galleries, group and solo shows across the U.S.
since 1996. Gray's artwork has been exhibited at the American Museum of
Ceramics, Pomona, the Women's Museum of California, San Diego, at CSU Dominguez
Hills, Los Angeles, California and San Francisco Art Institute. Gray's
paintings and sculptures are collected by private and corporate
collectors. Gray received a Bachelor's
Degree in Fine Art from San Francisco Art Institute in 2014.
Artist
Statement
My art praxis,
which includes 2-D media, sculptures and installations, conveys an inquiry into
identity and memory. Body Memory, an oversize ceramic torso, explores the
concept of memory held in the body. Body Memory is based on the experience of
identity, of being a particular "self," that is found in the
structures accrued in bodily memory. We carry memory in our body. It appears in
different forms: situational, inter-corporeal, and traumatic memories are
comprised of more than just explicit recollections of the past. They are also
embedded in the habitual structure of the body, evidence of one's lived
experience. Sometimes the evidence is conveyed through the physical scars,
muscle and sinew formation, while other times it is invisible to the
viewer. 2-D images are hidden in the
interior surfaces of Body Memory, challenging the viewer to consider what is
hidden. Fragile/Strength also explores identity and memory through the body and
multiple masks of self
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