paintings
2014–2021 Santa Monica
Painting is dialogic, a visceral and gestural call-and-response as an image is being formed. Some paintings have taken external images and events as their source material, including floods, disappearing icebergs, California light and the turbulent landscape, while other paintings take internal states as their subject matter. After the Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, I stopped painting the figure and began painting structures of bone, flesh, and ice, as though the human form were no longer adequate to hold what I felt about the state of the world. Since then, figures slip in and out of paintings at will.
family portrait, Julia Schwartz, 2020. Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches. JS0106
untitled (california incline/matthew’s flowers), Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on canvas, 80 x 36 inches (diptych). JS0095
flesh rainbow, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on linen, 36 x 30 inches. JS0098
mad love, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches. JS0097
the kiss, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches. JS0102
fingers and toes and birds and plants, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil and paint marker on canvas, 10 x 8 inches. JS0100
coven, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. JS0129
medea, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. JS0103
the view through yesterday, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on linen, 26 x 21 inches. JS0096
tree hugger, Julia Schwartz, 2019. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches. JS0099
another sleepless night, Julia Schwartz, 2018. Oil on linen, 20 x 16 inches. JS0104
waiting in the garden, Julia Schwartz, 2018. Oil on canvas, 40 x 36 inches. JS0115
searching for treasure in the natural world, Julia Schwartz, 2018. Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches. JS0105
in a pool of night I dream of you, Julia Schwartz, 2018. Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches. JS0112
the view is always fragmented by memory, Julia Schwartz, 2018. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches. JS0114
we live here, Julia Schwartz, 2017. Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. JS0113
we lay in the grass, Julia Schwartz, 2017. Oil and oilstick on canvas, 72 x 48 inches. JS0101
nightpainter, Julia Schwartz, 2016. Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches. JS0108
looking nowhere looking in, Julia Schwartz, 2016. Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches. JS0109
the collection, Julia Schwartz, 2016. Oil on linen, 36 x 40 inches. JS0110
river, Julia Schwartz, 2016. Oil on linen, 40 x 36 inches. JS0118
late night tussle while outside bullets fly, Julia Schwartz, 2016. Oil on linen, 40 x 36 inches. JS0111
missing you, Julia Schwartz, 2016. Oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches. JS0117
dispersal, Julia Schwartz, 2016. Oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches. JS0116
second light, Julia Schwartz, 2014. OIl on canvas, 48 x 48 inches.
mariposa, Julia Schwartz, 2014. Oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches. JS0107
wisteria through the window, Julia Schwartz, 2014. Oil on linen, 12 x 12 inches. JS0143
many ways to see, Julia Schwartz, 2014. Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. JS0124
radiant dust, Julia Schwartz, 2014. Oil on canvas, 40 x 36 inches. JS0123
this and no other, Julia Schwartz, 2014. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches. JS0120