ARTIST STATEMENT
It’s autumn, 70 degrees and sunny. I am on a lake in a kayak. My companion has just started paddling back to the dock. I turn to follow but I see sunlight reflections and chase them with my lens; I drift, engaged. In no time she is two hundred yards away and I paddle myself back thinking of our conversation about the air being visible through the surface of the water... about how James Lovelock noticed that different from any other planet, the atmosphere of Earth self regulates to support life suggesting an intelligence he named Gaia. And I breathe in.
The invisibility of the air infuses my body and the realization hits me – interaction with the elemental forces around me define my body’s current living state as I use the earth for my survival every minute of my life. In reciprocity, I contemplate the connections and perceived boundaries between the inside and the outside and I am moved to make art.
BIO
Julia Way Rix attended Georgetown University (B.A. English and Fine Arts), Tyler School of Art (M.Ed Art Education), and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (MFA). Rix’s videos, installation work, and watercolor paintings seek contemplation in the moving spaces between the self and surroundings. She lives and works in Elkins Park, PA.
She has exhibited at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Anna Zorina Gallery, Marginal Utility Gallery, Borrelli’s Chestnut Hill Gallery, Montgomery County Community College Fine Arts Center, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Winterthur Museum, Wayne Art Center, the Henry Gallery at Penn State Great Valley, Black Rock Center for the Arts in Maryland, Abington Art Center, Painted Bride Gallery and the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. In 2018 she was Artist-in-Residence at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts. She is a Signature Member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society.
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It’s autumn, 70 degrees and sunny. I am on a lake in a kayak. My companion has just started paddling back to the dock. I turn to follow but I see sunlight reflections and chase them with my lens; I drift, engaged. In no time she is two hundred yards away and I paddle myself back thinking of our conversation about the air being visible through the surface of the water... about how James Lovelock noticed that different from any other planet, the atmosphere of Earth self regulates to support life suggesting an intelligence he named Gaia. And I breathe in.
The invisibility of the air infuses my body and the realization hits me – interaction with the elemental forces around me define my body’s current living state as I use the earth for my survival every minute of my life. In reciprocity, I contemplate the connections and perceived boundaries between the inside and the outside and I am moved to make art.
BIO
Julia Way Rix attended Georgetown University (B.A. English and Fine Arts), Tyler School of Art (M.Ed Art Education), and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (MFA). Rix’s videos, installation work, and watercolor paintings seek contemplation in the moving spaces between the self and surroundings. She lives and works in Elkins Park, PA.
She has exhibited at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Anna Zorina Gallery, Marginal Utility Gallery, Borrelli’s Chestnut Hill Gallery, Montgomery County Community College Fine Arts Center, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Winterthur Museum, Wayne Art Center, the Henry Gallery at Penn State Great Valley, Black Rock Center for the Arts in Maryland, Abington Art Center, Painted Bride Gallery and the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. In 2018 she was Artist-in-Residence at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts. She is a Signature Member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society.
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