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Julia Samuels was born and raised in Portsmouth, NH. She moved to Brooklyn, NY to study at Pratt Institute where she earned her BFA in Printmaking. She now manages digital printing at Pratt Manhattan, and continues her own work in printmaking at the Gowanus Studio Space. She has been published by Cannonball Press, shown by the International Print Center of New York and has studied at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography.
Artist Statement
My work considers the dichotomy between natural and industrial while challenging the boundaries of where these two diverge. Our worlds are controlled by infrastructures we’ve built for ourselves, and I am constantly considering how the systems we’ve built encourage us to live so wastefully and disrespectfully. Electric pylons and bare trees are visually captivating with their brutally exposed geometries, one rigid and one organic. The intersections of steel beams support a network of interconnectedness that spans and supports us all. With downed leaves, the skeletons of a bare trees illustrate a different life force that pulls us together, yet also looks cold and dead.