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Description: Etching with Chine collé
Size: 15 x 11
2010 Showings
May 15 - 16, Site 73: Cubberley Studios; E,F, & U Wings
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
About Julia Nelson-Gal
Julia Nelson-Gal is a mixed-media artist who uses vernacular photographs, found objects, recycled materials and ephemera in her work. Her pieces explore time, memory, change, deterioration and mortality.
Her artwork comes from a life-long love of photography, an interest in collecting discarded materials and a fascination with folk art. Nelson-Gal incorporates objects made by other people in most of what she makes, whether it is a photograph, an old camera or a discarded work of art. Her re-interpretation of these objects comments on the changes in society regarding what is popular, the changes in technology that we are all subjected to, and how the change in context of an object can alter our perception of its meaning and value. Prior to becoming an artist, Nelson-Gal worked in museums, non-profit arts organizations and an auction house. Her previous career studying the artwork of others, continues to influence her approach to making art. She exhibits in approximately a dozen exhibitions each year throughout the United States. Nelson-Gal has been invited to create a body of work inspired by the Bade archaeology collection in Berkeley and will exhibit the work at the Doug Adams Gallery in spring 2011.
Contact Julia Nelson-Gal
E-mail: julieng@earthlink.net
Web site: http://www.julianelsongal.com