Julie Shapiro works between painting, drawing, printmaking and constructing with paper. Her abstract work reflects experiences within her surroundings and a variety of other occurrences. The combining of control and accident and the unique possibilities of material and color within each medium is essential.
Her art has been shown in galleries including the Painting Center, NYC, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, Pollock Gallery, SMU, Weatherspoon Museum, Drawing Center, NYC, NY Satellite and Cleveland Print fairs and more locally at the Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, Five Points Art Center, Torrington, CT, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY and the Monterey Library.
Shapiro has received Pollock Krasner and Martha Boschen Porter grants, and residency fellowships at Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Redline Milwaukee, Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Yaddo. Her work is included in numerous collections.
She received a BA in Art from UC Santa Cruz, an MFA from Yale School of Art, and attended the Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT. She taught at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, and has participated throughout the country as a Visiting Artist and panelist. She is a member of NYArtist Circle and the artist collective Pell Lucy.
Julie Shapiro now resides in Monterey, MA.
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