Julia Dzikiewicz
Julia Dzikiewicz has a BS (Arch) from UVA, and has studied at the Corcoran School of Art and R&F Paints. She loves to paint figures and portraits.
MessageJulia Dzikiewicz was born with a paintbrush in her fingers and has been painting ever since. After finishing a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the University of Virginia, she continued her studies at the Corcoran School of Art and R&F Paints.
Her paintings have hung in numerous shows across the county. Through January2021, her solo show “The Right to Vote” can be seen at the Vulcan Muse Gallery, W-16 at the Workhouse Arts Center (https://www.workhousearts.org/event/right-to-vote-solo-exhibit-by-julia-dzikiewicz/). Smaller works are hanging across the lawn at the Arches Gallery, W-9.
Of course, the easiest way to get to know her and her work is to visit her website, https://gallerydz.com/ . Here you can see her political art and view two virtual art shows.
Ms. Dzikiewicz likes to watch movies in her spare time and works with Crimes of the Arts and Discordian Films (http://crimesoftheart.com/) to create short films. Her role is creating props, costumes and sets and registering the team for events.
It’s been a long journey for Ms. Dzikiewicz. She started out painting on her kitchen table when her kids were asleep, rented a studio once her kids left the house, and now is back to painting at home. She looks forward to meeting you all in this new world of Zoom, and looks forward to hearing your stories and questions.
Statement
I enjoy painting the political. I was raised by a mother who ran campaigns for fun, including her own. She felt knowing what happens in the world is important and instilled in me a desire to understand the issues and to paint about them.
I suppose these paintings are my diary, a place where one can see my interests and the current events of the time. But one never knows where inspiration will come. Here I was, happily painting about global warming, and then I moved into the Workhouse Arts Center. My studio used to be part of a prison that once held Suffragists imprisoned for picketing the White House. Thus began my Feminism Series, where I try to tell the stories of these brave women and attempt to pull their issues into the modern day.
The majority of my paintings after 2009 are painted with encaustic. Encaustic paint is made from beeswax and color and looks like a big bar of colored soap. I melt the paint on a large metal surface, pick up the color with my brush, and apply it to a prepared board. The paint cools immediately and becomes hard. I then use a heat gun or torch to burn in the color or to smooth the surface. It’s hard to tell online, but in person the painted surfaces can mimic stained glass. Other times, I paint out thin sheets of it and construct wax flowers. The beauty of this medium is its versatility.
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