JULIE SPEED Solo Exhibition
December 30th 2016, through January 31st, 2017
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Julie Speed, Chicago, Illinois, b.1951 After dropping out of Rhode Island School of Design at age 19, Julie Speed spent her twenties moving around the U.S. and Canada working pick-up jobs (house painter, horse trainer, ad writer, farm worker etc.) until moving to Texas in 1978 where she settled down and taught herself to paint. She switches back and forth regularly between oil painting, printmaking, collage, gouache and drawing, often combining disciplines.
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Utilizing her keen sense of the absurd, Speed ponders the big questions—the role of religion, isolation and longing, sexuality, sin and guilt—with a sly, sometimes dark, sense of humor and a steadfast refusal to offer the viewer any tidy resolutions. It is the emphatically open-ended and omnivorous nature of her work, combining anxiety, erotica, and violence with the subversive power of beauty that puts Speed in the vanguard of a return to figurative painting in contemporary art. Speed has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at numerous galleries and museums. Two monographs by UT Press have been published on Speed’s artwork: SPEED, ART 2003-2009 and Julie Speed: Painting, Constructions and Works on Paper. Speed’s artworks can be found in a number of public collections including Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, The Grace Museum, The McNay Art Museum, The Contemporary Austin and the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Cover: Kunisada’s Ghosts, gouache, 29.5” x 41” (details, view next page)
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Kunisada’s Ghosts, gouache, 29.5” x 41” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
Gouache and Collage Paintings start here
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Good Friday, gouache and collage, 29.5” x 37.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Hunting Season, gouache and collage, 20” x 26” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Pope Descending, gouache, 16” x 20” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Small Sailor, gouache and collage, 29.5” x 39.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Missing, gouache and collage, 36” x 27.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Monkeytree, gouache and collage, 21.5” x 41” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Bear, gouache and collage, 20” x 24” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Fish Supper, gouache and collage, 29.25” x 20.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Hammerhead, gouache and collage, 29.5” x 41.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Manners, gouache, 24” x 29” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Milky Way, gouache, 20.5” x 29.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Owl, gouache and collage, 30” x 22.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Thorn Sisters, gouache and collage, 32” x 37.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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The Navigator, gouache, 23.25” x 21.25” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Undertoad, gouache and collage, 60” x 41” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Untitled (Birds), gouache and collage, 32.75” x 28.25” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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In Flagrante, gouache, collage and sepia ink, 40” x 58” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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In Flagrante Again, gouache, collage and sepia ink, 0” x 59” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Death and the Maiden, gouache, collage and sepia ink, 40” x 60” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Precipice, gouache and collage, 20” x 16” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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The Prince, gouache and collage, 14” x 29” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Birdblind, gouache and collage, 20” x 13.5”t CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Piano, gouache, collage, postage stamp and steel, 17.25” x 13.25” x 3” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Man in an Iron Mask, found paper, iron, wood and glass eye, 12” x 10.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Beach, etching with chine collé and gouache, Ed. 30, 17.5” x 20.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
Etchings start here
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Man with Cock, etching with chine collé, Ed. 40, 22.25” x 17.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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The Economists, etching with gouache, Ed. 40, 15” x 16.25” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Rope Burn Red, etching with chine collé, Ed. 30, 22.5” x 28” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Rope Burn, etching with chine collé, Ed. 30, 22.5” x 28” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Sleepers, etching with chine collé, Ed. 40, 22.5” x 25.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Sleepers, Cadmium, etching with chine collé, Ed. 40, 22.5” x 25.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Ad Referendum, Variation I (Observations), etching with chine collé, 23.5” x 17.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Ad Referendum, etching with chine collé, Ed. 40, 23.5” x 17.5” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Stoning The Witch, Variation I (Holy Father), etching and collage, 11.5” x 11” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
Variations start here
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Stoning The Witch, Variation II (Mea Culpe), etching and collage, 11.5” x 11” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Stoning The Witch, Variation III (Ship), etching and collage, 11.5” x 11” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Launch II, Variation I (White Moth), etching with chine collé and gouache, 14.25” x 10.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Howlers, Variation V (Birds), collage and gouache etching with chine collé, 14.25” x 10.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Howlers, Variation III (Mansion), collage and gouache etching with chine collé, 14.25” x 10.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Howlers, Variation IV (War), collage and gouache etching with chine collé, 14.25” x 10.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Howlers, Variation VI (Art), collage and gouache etching with chine collé, 14.25” x 10.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Howlers, Variation VII (Fountain), collage and gouache etching with chine collé, 14.25” x 10.75” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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Undertoad gouache and collage, 60” x 41” CLICK FOR INQUIRY
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