Julia Rooney "WAITING FRAME(01)"
Gouache and enamel on plastic tiles, mounted on wooden frame with ceramic tile, 10 in x 10 in x 1 in, 2021, $1750.
Artist Statement
WAITING GAME and WAITING FRAME emerged in 2020-21 as a strategy for both painting and play during a period of ever-increasing digital immersion. With so much social activity pushed to online spaces, I revived a set of dominoes as an analogue and highly-tactile medium. In handling the dominos, the smooth backsides revealed themselves to me as miniature panels for painting. I began a series of diptychs using gouache and enamel. Like in the game, the image on each domino bears a “mirroring” relationship to its partner—but this relationship can be complicated by placing other pieces beside it, and flipping the dominoes so that outside edges become inside ones. This process of play became an unexpected extension of the painting process. In their final mounted form, the rectangular and square formats suggest the phones and screens which have largely replaced in-person and tactile game-playing.
Artist Bio
Julia Rooney is a visual artist and arts educator. Though rooted in painting, her practice often bridges other disciplines, including writing and collaborative, community-based projects. She holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art and a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College. Recent solo exhibitions include @SomeHighTide (Arts+Leisure, NYC), Sections (Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA), paper paper (Kopeikin Gallery, LA) and Doubles (Chashama, NYC). Previous teaching fellowships/partnerships include The Joan Mitchell Foundation; More Art’s "Engaging Artists" residency; The Yale Prison Education Initiative; The Yale University Art Gallery; and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s SU-CASA residency. She is currently a Happy and Bob Doran Connecticut Artist in Residence through a partnership between Yale University Art Gallery and Artspace New Haven, during which time she plans to produce a body of work focused on the role of digital technology in art-making and art-viewing experiences.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
Gouache and enamel on plastic tiles, mounted on wooden frame with ceramic tile, 10 in x 10 in x 1 in, 2021, $1750.
Artist Statement
WAITING GAME and WAITING FRAME emerged in 2020-21 as a strategy for both painting and play during a period of ever-increasing digital immersion. With so much social activity pushed to online spaces, I revived a set of dominoes as an analogue and highly-tactile medium. In handling the dominos, the smooth backsides revealed themselves to me as miniature panels for painting. I began a series of diptychs using gouache and enamel. Like in the game, the image on each domino bears a “mirroring” relationship to its partner—but this relationship can be complicated by placing other pieces beside it, and flipping the dominoes so that outside edges become inside ones. This process of play became an unexpected extension of the painting process. In their final mounted form, the rectangular and square formats suggest the phones and screens which have largely replaced in-person and tactile game-playing.
Artist Bio
Julia Rooney is a visual artist and arts educator. Though rooted in painting, her practice often bridges other disciplines, including writing and collaborative, community-based projects. She holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art and a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College. Recent solo exhibitions include @SomeHighTide (Arts+Leisure, NYC), Sections (Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA), paper paper (Kopeikin Gallery, LA) and Doubles (Chashama, NYC). Previous teaching fellowships/partnerships include The Joan Mitchell Foundation; More Art’s "Engaging Artists" residency; The Yale Prison Education Initiative; The Yale University Art Gallery; and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s SU-CASA residency. She is currently a Happy and Bob Doran Connecticut Artist in Residence through a partnership between Yale University Art Gallery and Artspace New Haven, during which time she plans to produce a body of work focused on the role of digital technology in art-making and art-viewing experiences.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
Gouache and enamel on plastic tiles, mounted on wooden frame with ceramic tile, 10 in x 10 in x 1 in, 2021, $1750.
Artist Statement
WAITING GAME and WAITING FRAME emerged in 2020-21 as a strategy for both painting and play during a period of ever-increasing digital immersion. With so much social activity pushed to online spaces, I revived a set of dominoes as an analogue and highly-tactile medium. In handling the dominos, the smooth backsides revealed themselves to me as miniature panels for painting. I began a series of diptychs using gouache and enamel. Like in the game, the image on each domino bears a “mirroring” relationship to its partner—but this relationship can be complicated by placing other pieces beside it, and flipping the dominoes so that outside edges become inside ones. This process of play became an unexpected extension of the painting process. In their final mounted form, the rectangular and square formats suggest the phones and screens which have largely replaced in-person and tactile game-playing.
Artist Bio
Julia Rooney is a visual artist and arts educator. Though rooted in painting, her practice often bridges other disciplines, including writing and collaborative, community-based projects. She holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art and a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College. Recent solo exhibitions include @SomeHighTide (Arts+Leisure, NYC), Sections (Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA), paper paper (Kopeikin Gallery, LA) and Doubles (Chashama, NYC). Previous teaching fellowships/partnerships include The Joan Mitchell Foundation; More Art’s "Engaging Artists" residency; The Yale Prison Education Initiative; The Yale University Art Gallery; and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s SU-CASA residency. She is currently a Happy and Bob Doran Connecticut Artist in Residence through a partnership between Yale University Art Gallery and Artspace New Haven, during which time she plans to produce a body of work focused on the role of digital technology in art-making and art-viewing experiences.
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