Julianne Swartz

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Lives and works in Brooklyn and Kingston, New York, USA.

From smoke signals and semaphore flags up to the latest wireless broadband, human beings have made use of whatever technology is available to help us to communicate with each other. Julianne Swartz uses high-tech materials – fibre-optics, plastics, light and sound technology – in her work to explore the eternal human need to be in contact, in touch; to communicate with someone we love, for instance, even when they aren’t physically present. In her new work for International 06 she turns her attention to the relationships we develop with the buildings we inhabit, giving us the opportunity to experience a totally new kind of communication. We may know how we feel about a particular building, but what if it had feelings about us – and could express them?

Solo Exhibitions and Projects

2006 Breaches and Leaks, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK

2005 Partial Excavation (In Pink), Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Managed Flow Echo System, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC, USA
Elevator Music, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

2004 Currents – Julianne Swartz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA
Speculative Mechanics *persistent optimism, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2003 Line Drawing, Artists’ Space, Project Room, New York, NY, USA

2002 Garden Details Imported and Compressed, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2001 Landing ~ the Bubble, 123 Watts, New York, NY, USA

1999 Shadow House, The Robert Lehman Gallery at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, USA
 
1997 Numinous, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA


Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Repeat Performance, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004 Counter Culture, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
2004 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
4 und 4 selected, Muller Dechiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2003 Breaking Away, P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, Queens, NY, USA
Line Drawing, Artists’ Space, Project Room, New York, NY, USA
Still Motion, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2002 The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Liminal Spaces, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Periphera, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2001 Interval: New Art for a New Space, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA
Brooklyn!, Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Let’s Get To Work, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
2000 Luminous, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA


Further Reading

Brooklyn!, exh. cat., Palm Beach: Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, 2001

Charles Labelle, ‘Julianne Swartz at Josée Bienvenu’, Frieze (illustration) (March 2005)

Luminous, exh. cat., Seattle: Bellevue Art Museum, 2000

Martha Schwendener, ‘Julianne Swartz, at Josée Bienvenu’, Artforum (illustration) (February 2005)

Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004 Biennial, exh. cat., New York: Whitney Museum, 2004


www.julianneswartz.com