Julia Muench
Leonardo, NJ
For me, art is illuminating, healing and necessary. I love creating and merging with color and form, revealing new esthetics.
MessageJulia Muench is a multi-disciplinary, visionary artist and creator, based in Leonardo, New Jersey. She works in various types of sustainable fiber/fabrics, repurposed fabrics, glass mosaic and other sustainable materials. Her designs and techniques are unique, with universal appeal.
Her vibrant fiber canvases are in three layers, with embroidery and quilting, and with hand sewn-beading on the top layer. Some of the larger pieces take several months tor her to create. Her images
reveal a lifelong interest in the exploration and understanding of world cultures, music, dance and organic forms in nature. She plans to continue helping local environmental groups, through her volunteering and sales of her artwork.
Her fiber art works have been selected into several national juried exhibits, winning awards. Her recent solo public exhibits include: In-Spiral-ed held in the month of July of 2021, at Art Alliance of Monmouth County, in Red Bank, New Jersey, and Tides & Portals held September 2022 in Rumson, New Jersey’s Oceanic Library. She has recently been selected for an upcoming 2023 two person show at DC Gallery and Studio in Milleville, New Jersey.
Julia’s work reveals an abstract and sometimes surreal esthetic sense; starting with basic geometric and organic forms, and then breaking out of traditional, building into new structures.
Julia’s artwork has been chosen for publication in literary magazines: Vermont’s Mud Season Review, and Oregon’s High Shelf Press, and BSB Gallery in Trenton, NJ for their “Free Enterprise Exhibit this Spring 2020.
Some of her artistic influences have been Nancy Crow, Michael James, Judy Mathieson, Buckminster Fuller, and Hilma af Klint, and Antoni Gaudi, to name a few.
Julia grew up in Miami, Florida, taking art classes (drawing and sculpture ) at a very young age. Her mother, Deborah Winter, an artist in her own right, introduced her to art at an early age.
Later though still trained and working in art, Julia decided to study music and received her Master’s degree in Music from the University of Miami School of Music. Julia ’s initial fascination for the esthetic in geometry started with her career in music and composition and then continued to manifest in her art quilts going back to 2006. Since that time, Julia has continued to develop her own designs expanding into other media such as mosaic and sculpture.
Julia is an experienced artist, performer, musician, composer, and educator, has won achievement awards for her quilts, music performance, teaching, and sound compositions. She has also studied and performed and choreographed various dance forms such as flamenco, and worked in film and photography.
Born in California, early childhood raised in Miami Florida, she now resides in New Jersey for the past 23 years.
Julia Muench has lived with art, in one form or another, her entire life. Her latest fiber art collection spans the past 15 years, simultaneously, Julia has been working in the field of music, teaching and performing. She is currently working on a larger 4'x4' 3D sculpture "Moxius" made of Lexan, glass, and steel.
Julia Muench has a background in visual art, photography, quilting and music composition. Along with her own projects, she works on commissions for clients inspired by her own designs, and a variety of specifically chosen colors.
Julia’s original design constructions are inspired by modern quilt art and her background in art observation. Each creation emerges planned out, in the medium of various fabrics pieced together through sewing. Julia chooses specific fabrics as one would choose exact colors and textures for a painting. She incorporates some chosen fabrics to create atmospheres, and other fabric prints to work in contrast to each other and against the geometrical shapes they are cut into. As observed in her work in musical composition, she sees the background as crucially important to the foreground and piece as a whole. A background needs to enhance the solo object(s) in the overall composition.
Her art pieces may be hung on a wall or rolled for easy transport.
Philosophy:
We learn more about our creativity through the understanding of all Arts: Music, Dance, Film, Drama etc.
Statement
Statement:
For me, art is illuminating, healing and necessary. Creating something unique, merging color with form, and revealing new aesthetics, is a passion of mine. My artwork is influenced by a lifelong study of world cultures, music and dance. I believe art can be a way, to help someone see something, maybe take them beyond expectations, opening up new worlds of possibilities. My aim in making art, is to emerge with an outcome that moves and awakens. My concern for the Earth’s environment, starting with our oceans, reveals itself through the images and the sustainable materials I am incorporating into my art practice.
A viewer once said of my work…”Your art reminds people of themselves, of who they really are. They recognize the art they forgot about... They realize they do know, and can know, and that they never really lost themselves, that they are still there
and it makes them happy…”
I invite you, as a unique observer, to find your own take on what you see in my work, and maybe even find your own way into to creating something illuminating.
For me, Art is illuminating, healing and necessary. Creating something unique, merging color with form, and revealing new aesthetics, is a passion of mine. My body of visual artwork is influenced by a lifelong study of world cultures, music and dance. I believe art can be a way to help someone see something, maybe take them beyond expectations, opening up new worlds of possibilities. My aim in making art, is to emerge with an outcome that moves and awakens. My concern for the Earth’s environment, starting with our oceans, reveals itself through the images in some of my work, and the sustainable materials I am incorporating into my art practice.
A viewer once said of my work…” Your art reminds people of themselves, of who they really are. They recognize the art they forgot about... They realize they do know, and can know, and that they never really lost themselves, that they are still there and it makes them happy…”
I invite you, as a unique observer, to find your own take on what you see in my work, and maybe even find your own way into creating something new.
"Wondering Wheel" 2021
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