JULIE HARRISON
”Fragments” exhibition, Wekalet Behna, Alexandria, Egypt, 2015.
From the artist’s website:
Julie Harrison is an artist in New York City who moves between drawing, photography, video, painting, and performance.
She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and has exhibited widely. From 2003–2010, Harrison founded and directed the Art & Technology B.A. Program at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey (having taught there since 1992), and is currently associated with Granary Books, publisher of work exploring the intersection of word, image and page.
Julie Harrison was a pioneer user of the early Sony Portapak analog video system, creating her first video/performance in 1974 while attending the University of New Mexico. Her early time-based works traversed through private performances for video to single- and multiple-video camera/monitor performances and installations. Having performed and toured with New Mexico Danceworks from 1974–1976, she moved to New York City in 1976 and continued to work with dancers, most notably Simone Forti (1978) culminating in a performance of “Huddle” at the MoMA Sculpture Garden, and Grommet events spearheaded by Fluxus artist Jean Dupuy. Harrison was an early member of the artists’ group, Collaborative Projects (Colab) (1977–1984), was co-founder (with Willoughby Sharp, Susan Brittan and Wolfgang Staehle) of Machine Language, a video art collective (1984–1985), worked with image-processed videos on-and-off over a period of 15 years at the Experimental Television Center (ETC), and produced and directed video art, documentaries and art educational videos which have aired on PBS nationwide and were featured in festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival, The World-Wide Video Festival in The Hague; Video Roma in Italy; Video/Culture Canada in Toronto; the National Video Festival in Los Angeles, among others.
Camera for live broadcast on PBS, “June 12th Disarmament Rally” in Central Park, 1982.
In the 1980s, Harrison returned to painting and drawing and in 1993 she bought her first MacIntosh computer to convert video images to digital stills, combining her 2-D with her 3-D work. After creating conceptual-based photographs throughout the 2000s, she began her current series of biomorphic drawings in 2016.
From Global Portraits series, 2009
Photograph on archival pigment print
17" x 42", 2009
Julie Harrison’s work is represented and distributed by Granary Books (New York), Women Make Movies (New York), Stichting Kijkhuis (Netherlands) and Video Out (Vancouver Canada).
Graphite and paper on paper, 2017
12.5” x 12”