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Artist Spotlight: Julie Curtiss

A selection of recent paintings by Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Julie Curtiss. Centered around the relationship between nature and culture, Curtiss’ paintings explore and rework female archetypes through a surreal sense of the uncanny. She elaborates: “I enjoy the complementarity of humor and darkness, the mysterious and the mundane, grotesque shapes and vivid colours, which I explore in paintings , sculpture, and also gouache on paper.”

See more from Julie Curtiss below!

© the artist. Photo © Charles Benton. Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery
© the artist. Photo © Charles Benton. Courtesy White Cube
© the artist. Courtesy White Cube
© the artist. Photo © Charles Benton. Courtesy White Cube
© the artist. Photo © White Cube (Ollie Hammick)
© the artist. Photo © Charles Benton. Courtesy White Cube
© the artist. Courtesy White Cube
© the artist. Photo © Charles Benton. Courtesy White Cube
© the artist. Photo © Charles Benton. Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery

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