General Ernesto Giesel (1976)
Leon Golub
Acrylic on linen.
Nelson Rockefeller (1976)
Leon Golub
Acrylic on linen
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Framed view of Julia Schmitt Healy Head in the Clouds, 1969-70 Yearbook collage and gouache on paper 8h x 6 1/2w in Framed: 15 1/2h x 12w in
Julia Schmitt Healy Head in the Clouds, 1969-70 Yearbook collage and gouache on paper 8h x 6 1/2w in Framed: 15 1/2h x 12w in
In "Head in the Clouds" from 1969-1970, Julia Schmitt Healy removed her face from 16 different photographic self-portraits and replaced them with images of clouds on a blue sky taken from cut-up postcards. Her show at Western Exhibitions closes this Saturday!
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From the artist: The woodgrain drawings came out of my situation, in 1976 in Nova Scotia. I was newly-married and the housework was 100% mine to do. Feminism was raising its head in women’s consciousnesses at the time and housework is a feminist issue. So my usual approach to making art--working in visual metaphors--was what was needed, and that is what I did. At the time, I noticed women around me who absolutely “became” their houses. It was their identity. I realized it was so easy to become overly-invested in one’s domicile—how it looked outside and in, what kind of style it had, how it was kept. It was an extension of self. I made women wearing tea cozies covering their heads (being suffocated) …women wearing masks (hiding)… women made of bathroom tiles… women made of stainless steel who “became their kitchen sinks,” and women made of woodwork... women as furniture. They were “wooden,” immutable, fixed. There is a wooden bride in a bridal veil…wooden bodies…wooden portraits. Women who seem to be pulled in many directions. I then took the idea of wooden figures to depict icons of the day--male and female. I feel they have an almost totemic presence. Eventually, I made a series of drawn totemic images where heads of people and animals are stacked totem-pole style, but that’s a whole other show!
Installation view of Julia Schmitt Healy’s solo show, LOOKING BACK: WORK BY JULIA SCHMITT HEALY FROM 1970-1981, up now in Gallery 1 at Western Exhibitions, through February 22
Installation view of Julia Schmitt Healy’s solo show, LOOKING BACK: WORK BY JULIA SCHMITT HEALY FROM 1970-1981, up now in Gallery 1 at Western Exhibitions, through February 22
From Julia Schmitt Healy’s solo show up now at Western Exhibitions, through Feb 22
Totem Pole #2
1976
Colored pencil on rag paper, 30h x 22w in. 34h x 26w in. framed
See the ALT TEXT on the first image for a statement form the artist
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Julia Schmitt Healy Baggy People, 1970 Acrylic on Canvas 59h x 59w in
Julia Schmitt Healy Empty Conversation, 1970 Acrylic on 1969 Linen Tea Towel 16h x 14w in
Julia Schmitt Healy Turned Away, 1970 Acrylic on Linen 1967 Calendar Tea Towel 16h x 14w in
Installation view of LOOKING BACK: WORK BY JULIA SCHMITT HEALY FROM 1970-1981, up now in Gallery 1 at Western Exhibitions, through February 22
From Julia Schmitt Healy’s show, in Gallery 1 at Western Exhibitions, through Feb 22
Baggy People, 1970
Acrylic on Canvas
59h x 59w in
Empty Conversation, 1970
Acrylic on 1969 Linen Tea Towel
16h x 14w in
Turned Away, 1970
Acrylic on Linen 1967 Calendar Tea Towel
16h x 14w in
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Julia Schmitt Healy's 1970 series of paintings and watercolors, "Empty People"
Empty People Series: Talking Shit, 1970 Gouache on paper, 8 1/2h x 8w in., framed: 12 1/4h x 12 1/4w in
Empty People Series: Backviews #1, 1970 Gouache on paper, 7 1/2h x 7 1/2w in., framed: 15 1/4h x 15 1/4w in
Empty People Series: Backviews #2, 1970 Gouache on paper, 8 1/2h x 8w in., framed: 14h x 14w in
From Julia Schmitt Healy’s solo show, LOOKING BACK: WORK BY JULIA SCHMITT HEALY FROM 1970-1981, up now in Gallery 1 at Western Exhibitions, through February 22
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