Julia Couzens was born on 1947 and is a California-based, American artist known for a diverse body of work that embraces unconventional materials and methods and includes drawing, sculpture, installation art, and writing.
10 Facts About Julia Couzens
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Julia Couzens's art has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Flash Art, New Art Examiner, and Art Practical, among other publications, and collected by institutions including the Crocker Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California and Butler Institute of American Art, among many.
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Julia Couzens's studies were interrupted by an accident in 1989 that forced a long recovery in a wheelchair and crutches and shifted her art from large abstractions using unconventional materials to small charcoal drawings she could do in her lap.
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Critics and curators note that Julia Couzens's practice is fluid and wide-ranging, encompassing several identifiable bodies and mediums and a multitude of materials, rather than any one signature style.
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Julia Couzens has long been recognized for her draftsmanship, and writers consider it to be at the core of her practice, even in later sculptural work.
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Julia Couzens's show "Net Work" featured wall pieces whose allusions ranged from eroticism to the figure to landscape.
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Julia Couzens's "Bundles" consist of intuitive, abstract sculptural forms evoking god's eyes, dreamcatchers or cat's cradles, that she builds up through processes of wrapping, binding, stitching and layering, and displays as wall pieces or floating "satellites," such as Chanteuse.
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In 2017, Julia Couzens exhibited Last Words, a 2,500-square-foot mixed-media installation at Sacramento State University.
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Julia Couzens has been recognized with a Publication Fellowship from Peripheral Vision Press, visual artist fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and Art Matters, and an artist-in residency at the Roswell Museum and Art Center.
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In 2019, Julia Couzens participated in the Cheongju Contemporary Craft Biennale in South Korea.