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Jamian Juliano-Villani

Jamian Juliano-Villani creates often-gigantic paintings on canvas—she works with brush and airbrush to render scenes that are surreal hodgepodges, reminiscent of James Rosenquist or Peter Saul’s bizarre compositions. Through research and spontaneous discovery, she seeks out images with a “subliminal cultural power” within an extensive range—comics, nature photographs, 3D computer graphic, graffiti, and Eastern symbols have made their way into her complex, dense works. Earlier in her career, she assisted artists including Dana Schutz and Eric Parker. Inspired furthermore by Mike Kelley, George Ault, and Mort Drucker, Juliano-Villani continues to embrace innovations in her own formal technique that arise intuitively. She forces the viewer to think beyond the self-referential painting that nourishes the history of painting and strives to recombine images in a way that confounds.


Juliano-Villani has exhibited at institutions including Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, SculptureCenter, New York, MOSTYN, Wales, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Jewish Museum, New York, among other international galleries.

Born 1987
Hometown Newark, NJ
Lives and Works Brooklyn, NY
Education
BFA, Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, 2011
Representing Galleries

Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

JTT, New York, New York

SHOWS

Studio Voltaire

London
Sep 30 2016 - Dec 11 2016

The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth

Gavin Brown's Enterprise

New York
Jun 30 2016 - Jul 30 2016

Goulding the Lolly

Massimo De Carlo

London
Jun 10 2016 - Jul 29 2016

SELF

On Stellar Rays

New York
Feb 28 2016 - Apr 03 2016

I Pledge Allegiance

Venus Over Manhattan

New York
Feb 28 2016 - Apr 03 2016

I Pledge Allegiance

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York
Jan 14 2016 - Apr 17 2016

Flatlands
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