Julie Bozzi

Julie Bozzi (born 1943) is an American artist who is known for her landscape paintings. Bozzi currently lives in Fort Worth, Texas.[1] Bozzi's art is in the permanent collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,[2][3] The Brooklyn Museum,[4] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[5] and the El Paso Museum of Art.

Biography

Bozzi was born in California and went to graduate school at the University of California, Davis.[6] She began to paint en plein air in 1975.[6] She later moved to Texas in 1980.[6]

She is married to the artist Vernon Fisher.[7][8]

Work

Bozzi is known for her landscapes. She finds much of her inspiration for her landscape paintings during drives along interstate highways, country roads and city streets across the United States.[9] She uses her steering wheel as her easel and paints with a variety of media including oil, watercolor and gouache on different types of surfaces.[9] Bozzi's interpretation of landscape is non-traditional[9] and the natural world she paints is "dehumanized" and "collected" like a specimen.[10] Another reviewer, Paul Richard, compared her "clinical detachment and attention to the seen" as qualities that would have "pleased John Ruskin."[11] The sense of collecting the landscape and her attention to detail has been attributed to her working as a laboratory assistant and scientific illustrator at Stanford University.[12] Her paintings are rarely larger than four by ten inches and she prefers a somber palette.[13] Her landscape choices are often considered unusual and can be anything from a "desolate strip of land along a highway to rubble from a freshly dug grave in a cemetery."[13] These often overlooked areas of the American landscape is brought to life through Bozzi's "interplay of light and color."[1]

Bozzi is also known for her food art. These pieces are preserved or reproduced food items using wood, plaster, paint and clay which have been "enshrined beneath glass."[14] Bozzi also paints realistic images of foods, such as doughnuts and pan de muerto.[15]

References
  1. Granberry, Michael (18 October 2014). "Art Notes: Show at Talley Dunn Looks at Labor, Border Issues". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  2. "Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth Presents Selections from the Permanent Collection". Dallas Art News. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  3. "Paintings Acquired". The Index-Journal. 1988-12-25. p. 17. Retrieved 2018-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Julie Bozzi". UMass Amerherst: Fine Arts Center. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  5. "Corpus Christi, TX". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  6. "Julie Bozzi: Landscapes 1975-2005". Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  7. Robinson, Gaile (2007-08-19). "Fisher Enjoys Artist's Life". The Bismarck Tribune. p. 14. Retrieved 2018-02-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Mora, Patricia (2015-06-01). "Inside Vernon Fisher's Studio". Patron Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  9. Reese, Becky Duval, ed. (2006). Texas 100: Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art. El Paso, Texas: El Paso Museum of Art Foundation. p. 26. ISBN 9780978538309.
  10. Storey, John B.; Kelley, Mary L. (2008). Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press. pp. 288–289. ISBN 9781574413793.
  11. Richard, Paul (11 January 1986). "Art". The Washington Post. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  12. Grimm, Amy V. (2005). "New Visions: Julie Bozzi - Contemporary Landscapes". Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  13. Kutner, Janet (5 December 2003). "Painter Sees Landscapes Through the Windshield". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 24 June 2015 – via Newspaper Source.
  14. Ollman, Leah (21 July 1992). "San Diego's MOCA Serves Up 'American Food'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  15. Barton, Dave (27 June 2013). "'Faux Real' Is an All Faux Show". OC Weekly. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
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