Julia Bloom is a versatile artist who works in both painting and sculpture. Her inspiration comes from forests. While her paintings often distill the complexity of her stick sculptures to heavily worked planes of paint, marks and intersections, her sculptures and their cross-hatched grids, spires and fractals often evoke figures, huts, totems and nests. In both her paintings and sculptures, light and shadow are critical elements. Her work is included in several permanent collections, including the University of Virginia School of Law and the United States Embassy in Peru. She has been awarded grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Cafritz Foundation.
Education
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston, MA
Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, 1997, 1995
Cardinal Gallery, Annapolis, MD, 1994
Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, 1994
Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL, 1993
Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC, 1992
McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA, 1990, 1992
Selected Group Exhibitions
Historical Society of Washington, DC & The Washington Sculptors Group – Porous Borders, 2010
The Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA – Washington Square Sculpture Show, 2009
Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA – Faraway Nearby, 2009
MOCA DC, Washington, DC, 2006
Union Printmakers Atelier, Washington, DC, 2005
Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT, 2003
Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA – ArtSites 98, 1998
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, 1998
Emerson Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia, 1995
Washington, Project for the Arts, 1995
International Design Center, Long Island City, NY, 1992
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA, 1992
Kurtz Cultural Center, Winchester, VA, 1992
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA – Painting’91, 1991
McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA – The Daily Progress Show, 1991
Maryland federation of Art, Annapolis MD, 1990
Awards & Honors
Washington Square Sculpture Show – Honorable Mention, 2009
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowships, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 1997
Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Fellowship, 2009
Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 1996
Publications
New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition-in-Print. Number 27, 2000.
Poet Lore. Vol. 94, No. 3 (Fall. 1999). Cover.
Southern Accents. Vol. 22. No. 3 (May – June 1999). 195.
Washington Review. Special ArtSites 98 Edition, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, 1998, June/July, pp. 16-17.
Gibson, Eric. The Washington Times. 21 May 1992, M 5.
Wilson, Janet. The Washington Post. 6 July 1991, 2.
Permanent Collections
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Wheat First Securities, Richmond, VA
U.S. State Department – U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru
