Julia Randall is in love with drawing, and uses her seductive technique to craft images that subtly challenge assumptions about corporeality, desire, and the natural world. She uses drawing, and more recently sculpture, to address the basic pleasures and discomforts of being human and the susceptibility of our bodies. Intersecting sensibilities activate her work; images are simultaneously erotic and humorous, beautiful and repulsive. Although she clearly operates in the realm of fantasy, Randall uses observation-based drawing and hyper-realistic technique to create images that are surreal and suggestive. Her precise, quasi-scientific method serves as a metaphor for the ritualized effort to prevent the loss of all things that are ultimately fugitive.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Garvey/Simon Art Access and at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, and in Sydney, Australia at Esa Jaske Gallery. Her drawings have been included in numerous group exhibitions in institutional and commercial venues, among them the Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and The National Academy in New York. Julia Randall is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also the recipient of multiple artist residency awards, including Arts/Industry Program at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Yaddo, and multiple residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, NY ARTS, Art on Paper, Flash Art, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Additionally, her drawings have been featured in New American Paintings, American Artist, and Beautiful/Decay magazines.
Julia Randall attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999. She received her M.F.A. from Rutgers University, and her B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives and works in New York City and in Connecticut.