JULINE BEIER www.julinedesigns.com
Artist Statement 4juline@gmail.com
I find inspiration for my work in diverse sources that range from popular culture to politics to functional folk art to shapes that seem to appear out of nowhere. My wall sculptures begin by creating a base structure of machine-stitched thread, I may alter the basic shape with lines of color or holes or I may then draw from a variety of materials that may include yarn, flax fiber, paper, plastic, telephone wire and found objects to define and embellish it. Sometimes I simply use layers of color and texture. My mixed-media fiber sculptures range in size from quite small to larger than life, and range in expression from the whimsical and satiric to decorative and purely abstract. Layers of shadow, texture and materials serve as a metaphor for the layers of meaning and inferred connections in our lives, and hopefully invite the viewer to look deeper on different levels. Click here to see my Gallery
Shattered, 2011
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 National Juried Exhibition , ACCI Gallery , Berkeley, CA Sausalito Art Festival, Art Festival Grounds , Sausalito, CA Artfully Reclaimed, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA American Craft Council Show, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Fiber Dimensions at the Bay Model, Bay Model , Sausalito, CA Hats Off to Roni, Oshman JCC, Palo Alto, CA 2010 Small Works Show, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA Intersections 5: Colors Concepts Contours, Presidio Officers' Club, San Francisco, CA American Craft Council Show, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Fine Art Competition & Show, Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA Private Eyes: Private Visions, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA 1 in 100: America Behind Bars, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 5th Annual Creative Justice Art Show, University of San Francisco School of Law 25th Annual January Juried Show, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA 2009 Dreams & Revelations , Marin MOCA, CA Bay Area Women Artists, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, CA Take 2: Refuse Rescued & Recreated, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA The Home Show , Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA Alchemy: Artfully Reclaimed IV , Marin MOCA, Novato, CA *Jurors Choice RE:birth , College of Marin, CA 2008 The Prison Project , Art Works Downtown, CA Innovations in Fiberart IV , Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA Assemblage, Art Works Downtown, CA Thousand Facets of Wabi-Sabi, O'Hanlon Gallery, CA Staff Selections, College of Marin,CA Art to Wear - Art for the Walls, Marin Arts Council, CA 2007 For the Love of Fiber , Marin Arts Council, CA 2006 BUZZZ , O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, CA 2005 Wabi-Sabi Show O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, CA 
Get The Blues, 2011
Triple Flax Bowl, 2011
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