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A B O U T
Julia Vodrey Hendrickson is a native of eastern Ohio who lives and works as a visual artist in Chicago, Illinois. In 2008 she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. in Studio Art and a minor in English from The College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio). During the summers of 2007 and 2008, respectively, she participated in the Rhode Island School of Design’s summer European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, and worked as a printmaking assistant at the University of Wisconsin-affiliated Tandem Press in Madison, Wisconsin.
From 2009-2010 Julia served as a curatorial intern in the Prints and Drawings Department at the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently works part-time for the modern, typographic, city neighborhood poster company, Ork Posters. She is an active member of the Chicago Printers Guild, a Teaching Assistant at the Marwen Foundation, and is teaching a workshop at Spudnik Press in September 2010.
She is also a freelance art critic and writer for Newcity, Chicago’s weekly cultural newspaper, and keeps a blog called The Enthusiast, a documentation of the daily things that inspire, intrigue, and inform.
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S T A T E M E N T
Right now I am working on a photopolymer print series based on a documentation of small, physical objects that people collect or glorify. My recent work focuses on the combination of printmaking, photography, painting, and collage, and the opportunities these mediums hold for reclaiming the physicality of the image. As an artist who is also a collector of objects, I am drawn to objects that function as unique, liminal spaces between interior and exterior.
The things we collect are a glimpse into the inner workings of our minds—our hopes, memories, choices, and beliefs—yet they exist as a part of daily life and are therefore made invisible. I want to give these small, collected things value and weight. In many of my prints, by placing personal, collected objects in unknown locations, one is forced to question that which is taken for granted. Discomfort and confusion occur in the unexpected juxtaposition of familiarity and the unknown, in places without points of reference. My small, collected objects are made monumental, skewing perception of the visual space and placing them outside of time.
I believe, in this modern world where images are primarily digital, fleeting and ephemeral, that the images I create should have some grounding in a real, physical space. I am interested in making images that are not only about personal, physical things, but which are made physical and tangible in themselves.
My other major interest lies in the realm of comic and cartoon art. Throughout 2007 and 2008 as part of my senior undergraduate thesis I developed a body of work called Silent Lines: Comics and the Language of Image. This multi-media series questions the traditional structure of comics and calls for comics to be legitimized as an art form. The iconography of the purposefully emptied speech balloons in my paintings raise questions about voice and the nature of art. Each piece is a conscious rejection of artistic tradition and the expectations that we have as viewers of both comics and painting.
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E X H I B I T I O N S
2010
· The Op-Shop v. 2, The Opportunity Shop at East 53rd St. (Chicago, IL)
· Printervention: By the people, for the people, Imagining a New Deal for the arts, The Chicago Cultural Center Tourism Building (Chicago, IL)
2009
· The Book As Its Own Addendum, Marwen Gallery (Chicago, IL)
· The Op-Shop v. 1, The Opportunity Shop at East 55th St. (Chicago, IL)
· Trunk Show: Luggage, Travel, & Place, exhibition curator, Barbara & Barbara Gallery (Chicago, IL)
· Places of Origin, The Project Lodge (Madison, WI)
· Tender Twenties, Spudnik Press (Chicago, IL)
· Wonder Woman, solo exhibition, The Chicago Diner (Chicago, IL)
2008
· Silent Lines: Comics & the Language of Image, solo exhibition, The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
· Fumetto: Climate International Comix Exhibition (Luzern, Switzerland)
· Studio Art Senior Independent Study Exhibit, The College of Wooster Art Museum (Wooster, OH)
· Five Colleges of Ohio Student Biennial, Juror's Award, The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
2007
· Junior Independent Study Group Exhibit, The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
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P U B L I S H ED · W O R K
2010
· Newcity art review, Ray Noland / Chicago Urban Art Society (June 14th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Judy Pfaff / David Weinberg Gallery (April 26th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Gladys Nilsson / Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (April 12th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Mike Schuh / Golden Gallery (April 5th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Duncan Anderson / Kasia Kay Art Projects (March 8th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Ryan Travis Christian / Ebersmoore gallery (February 22nd, 2010)
· Newcity artist profile, Nathaniel Russell (February 15th, 2010)
2009
· A5 Magazine: Israeli Art & Design, Heroes Issue No. 8, Painting
· Eating Heirloom Tomatoes, The Local Beet (September 12th, 2009), Photography
2008
· The Wooster Voice, Newspaper Editorial Cartoonist & Lead Illustrator, [See political cartoons here]
· Eating Mindfully, Dr. Susan Albers, website and worksheet illustrations
· The Goliard, artwork
· The Allegheny Review, artwork
2007
· The Rains Came, The Wooster Book Company, book cover design
· The Wooster Voice, Weekly newspaper, Editorial Cartoonist & Lead Illustrator
· Advances in Physiology Education, Article illustrations
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P R E S S
2009
· "Top Five: Trunk Show" Bad At Sports: Contemporary Art Talk. 23 October 2009
· McKerrow, Katherine. "Descendent of Ohio Potters Finds Collecting Roots." Antique Week 27 July 2009: 16-19.
2008
· "Exhibition Now On Display at Wooster Museum." Times Leader [Martin's Ferry, Ohio]. 21 February 2008
· Finn, John. "Five Colleges of Ohio Student Biennial Comes to The College of Wooster Art Museum." College of Wooster news release 11 January 2008
A B O U T
Julia Vodrey Hendrickson is a native of eastern Ohio who lives and works as a visual artist in Chicago, Illinois. In 2008 she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. in Studio Art and a minor in English from The College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio). During the summers of 2007 and 2008, respectively, she participated in the Rhode Island School of Design’s summer European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, and worked as a printmaking assistant at the University of Wisconsin-affiliated Tandem Press in Madison, Wisconsin.
From 2009-2010 Julia served as a curatorial intern in the Prints and Drawings Department at the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently works part-time for the modern, typographic, city neighborhood poster company, Ork Posters. She is an active member of the Chicago Printers Guild, a Teaching Assistant at the Marwen Foundation, and is teaching a workshop at Spudnik Press in September 2010.
She is also a freelance art critic and writer for Newcity, Chicago’s weekly cultural newspaper, and keeps a blog called The Enthusiast, a documentation of the daily things that inspire, intrigue, and inform.
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S T A T E M E N T
Right now I am working on a photopolymer print series based on a documentation of small, physical objects that people collect or glorify. My recent work focuses on the combination of printmaking, photography, painting, and collage, and the opportunities these mediums hold for reclaiming the physicality of the image. As an artist who is also a collector of objects, I am drawn to objects that function as unique, liminal spaces between interior and exterior.
The things we collect are a glimpse into the inner workings of our minds—our hopes, memories, choices, and beliefs—yet they exist as a part of daily life and are therefore made invisible. I want to give these small, collected things value and weight. In many of my prints, by placing personal, collected objects in unknown locations, one is forced to question that which is taken for granted. Discomfort and confusion occur in the unexpected juxtaposition of familiarity and the unknown, in places without points of reference. My small, collected objects are made monumental, skewing perception of the visual space and placing them outside of time.
I believe, in this modern world where images are primarily digital, fleeting and ephemeral, that the images I create should have some grounding in a real, physical space. I am interested in making images that are not only about personal, physical things, but which are made physical and tangible in themselves.
My other major interest lies in the realm of comic and cartoon art. Throughout 2007 and 2008 as part of my senior undergraduate thesis I developed a body of work called Silent Lines: Comics and the Language of Image. This multi-media series questions the traditional structure of comics and calls for comics to be legitimized as an art form. The iconography of the purposefully emptied speech balloons in my paintings raise questions about voice and the nature of art. Each piece is a conscious rejection of artistic tradition and the expectations that we have as viewers of both comics and painting.
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E X H I B I T I O N S
2010
· The Op-Shop v. 2, The Opportunity Shop at East 53rd St. (Chicago, IL)
· Printervention: By the people, for the people, Imagining a New Deal for the arts, The Chicago Cultural Center Tourism Building (Chicago, IL)
2009
· The Book As Its Own Addendum, Marwen Gallery (Chicago, IL)
· The Op-Shop v. 1, The Opportunity Shop at East 55th St. (Chicago, IL)
· Trunk Show: Luggage, Travel, & Place, exhibition curator, Barbara & Barbara Gallery (Chicago, IL)
· Places of Origin, The Project Lodge (Madison, WI)
· Tender Twenties, Spudnik Press (Chicago, IL)
· Wonder Woman, solo exhibition, The Chicago Diner (Chicago, IL)
2008
· Silent Lines: Comics & the Language of Image, solo exhibition, The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
· Fumetto: Climate International Comix Exhibition (Luzern, Switzerland)
· Studio Art Senior Independent Study Exhibit, The College of Wooster Art Museum (Wooster, OH)
· Five Colleges of Ohio Student Biennial, Juror's Award, The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
2007
· Junior Independent Study Group Exhibit, The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
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P U B L I S H ED · W O R K
2010
· Newcity art review, Ray Noland / Chicago Urban Art Society (June 14th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Judy Pfaff / David Weinberg Gallery (April 26th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Gladys Nilsson / Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (April 12th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Mike Schuh / Golden Gallery (April 5th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Duncan Anderson / Kasia Kay Art Projects (March 8th, 2010)
· Newcity art review, Ryan Travis Christian / Ebersmoore gallery (February 22nd, 2010)
· Newcity artist profile, Nathaniel Russell (February 15th, 2010)
2009
· A5 Magazine: Israeli Art & Design, Heroes Issue No. 8, Painting
· Eating Heirloom Tomatoes, The Local Beet (September 12th, 2009), Photography
2008
· The Wooster Voice, Newspaper Editorial Cartoonist & Lead Illustrator, [See political cartoons here]
· Eating Mindfully, Dr. Susan Albers, website and worksheet illustrations
· The Goliard, artwork
· The Allegheny Review, artwork
2007
· The Rains Came, The Wooster Book Company, book cover design
· The Wooster Voice, Weekly newspaper, Editorial Cartoonist & Lead Illustrator
· Advances in Physiology Education, Article illustrations
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P R E S S
2009
· "Top Five: Trunk Show" Bad At Sports: Contemporary Art Talk. 23 October 2009
· McKerrow, Katherine. "Descendent of Ohio Potters Finds Collecting Roots." Antique Week 27 July 2009: 16-19.
2008
· "Exhibition Now On Display at Wooster Museum." Times Leader [Martin's Ferry, Ohio]. 21 February 2008
· Finn, John. "Five Colleges of Ohio Student Biennial Comes to The College of Wooster Art Museum." College of Wooster news release 11 January 2008
