Toronto-born painter Julie Hedrick has lived in New York’s Hudson River valley since 1990. Not coincidentally, it seems, her large, atmospheric abstract paintings look like modernist readings of the Hudson River School paintings of the early 19th century. They are also strikingly reminiscent of J.M.W. Turner’s meteorological effects. Hedrick favors voluminous swirls of paint, activated here and there by small, encrusted bits of pigment that are built up on the surface of the canvas; her show, titled “Depth Perception,” offered 10 works that played with spatial illusion and with misty, billowing color suggestive of weather, landscape and other natural phenomena. A group of her poems was printed along with reproductions of the paintings in a catalogue; at one point she refers to “colors floating,” and that’s just how it is: hues hover, rise and fall relative to the picture plane.
-Art in America, Oct, 2000 by Jonathan Goodman
OUT OF THE HEART OF LIGHT An essay on Hedrick’s work by MARK DANIEL COHEN
http://www.nietzschecircle.com/hyperion0829.html
Julie Hedrick has exhibited extensively in the United States and Canada. At sixteen she apprenticed with Canadian artists Joyce Devlin, Murray Ladocha and went on to study art at The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is the daughter of the Canadian artist sculptor Robert Hedrick. In 1983 she began to study anatomy physiology and sacral cranial work at The Sutherland Chan Institute in Toronto as well as sound and healing and the use of tuning forks with Dr John Beaulieu at the Polarity Wellness Institute in New York.
She has designed sets for dance and film and collaborated with dancers choreographers and musicians. in 1998 she and Andrea Sherman co-produced an evening length multimedia work called Thresholds with nine dancers, video wall, and original score by the composer Peter Wetzler which premiered at The Center for Arts and Technology in Kingston NY.
In 2001 Hedrick was the subject of the film Julie Of The Spirits, directed by the Venezuelan born filmmaker Isabel Barton, scored by Peter Wetzler and shown at the Woodstock film festival in Woodstock NY, the Deep Listen Institute in Kingston NY, the Mead Museum in Amherst NY and The Nohra Haime Gallery in New York City.
She is represented by The Nohra Haime Gallery in New York and is known for her abstract atmospheric paintings and visual poetry.
Since 2004 Hedrick has been exploring the symbolic nature of colour .
The white series , blue series, red series, and the series simply called Colour , are meditative reflections on the world around us, evoking a sense of place and the spirit of the times.
Her series of catalogs and her poetry CD Depth Perception are available for sale through The Nohra Haime Gallery and online at CD baby. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jhedrick
In 2009 -2010 Hedrick created the video’s Blue and Red in a limited edition of fifteen which are temporarily available for sale through The Nohra Haime Gallery.
2011 is the year of Green.
Hedrick is currently working on a new series of green paintings, the Green video and the CD titled The colour poems with Peter Wetzler.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Opening March 30th AZUL ( BLUE ) NH Galeria , Cartagena, Columbia
Opening April 27th The Mildred Washington Gallery, Dutchess College, Poughkeepsie NY.
ONE – PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 BLUE The Beahive , Kingston NY.
2010 RED The Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
2008 “Awakening“ The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
2006 “ elemental sequence “ The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
2005 “ Revelations “ The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
2004 “ Color “ The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
“ Color ” The Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2003 “ Water Dreams “ Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY.
2002 “ Of The Spirits”, The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
2001 “ Sanctuary” The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
2001 ” Temporal Motion “ The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York NY.
2000 “ Depth Perception” The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 “ Adytum “, The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston NY
1997 Gallery at Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY
1994 The Center for Arts & Technology
1993 The Center for Arts & Technology
1992 The Center for Arts & Technology
1987 Donskoj Gallery, Kingston NY
1986 Kleinert James Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1985 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Sideshow Gallery , Cowgirls, Catskill NY.
2009 Intangible Moods , Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
2007 “ The Bridge Art Fair “ Nohra Haime Gallery, London, UK
2007 “ Experimenting “ Nohra Haime Gallery, “ LA Art ” Los Angeles, CA
2007 “ Paper Ball Preview Exhibition” Neuberger Museum of ART, Purchase, NY
2006 Art 20, The Armory, New York
2005 “ Salon 2005 ” The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “ Art Palm Beach ”, Nohra Haime Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
2004 Okalosa- Walton Art Center,” Past Present Future, “ Niceville, Fl
2004 “ Winter Landscapes, The Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Gallery Artists, Mira Godard Gallery , Toronto, Canada
2003 “ Off The Beaten Track Contemporary Mindscapes “, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
2000 “ Visible – Invisible : Four Visions “, The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
2001 “ Equilibrium of The Senses “, The Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 “ Ione’s Dream Festival “ Oliveros Foundation, Kingston, NY.
COLLABORATIONS – ART- POETRY – FILM
2003 New Poetry , The Oliveros Foundation, Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY
2002 “ Poetry improvisation with The Repetoes ” Tonic, New York, NY
2002 “Julie of the Spirits,” a film on Julie Hedrick by Isabel Barton, with original score by Peter Wetzler, presented at the Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, NY and the Columbia County Festival, Chatham, NY, and at the Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
1994 “ Thresholds ”, A multimedia intergenerational performance & installation, collaboration -Julie Hedrick and Andrea Sherman, The Center For Arts & Technology, Kingston, NY
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