Julia Dubsky

Born in: 1990
From: Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works: Berlin, Germany
Represented by: Amanda Wilkinson Gallery
Website: https://juliadubsky.com/

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Biography

Strongly inspired by artistic, literary, or philosophical figures from the Renaissance to contemporary times, Julia Dubsky infuses her paintings with a sharp sense for referencing. This surprisingly contrasts with her manner of creating her canvases, which stem from automated movements and seemingly arbitrary strokes. It is through the exploration of the medium itself and of colors that the artist finds her ultimate meaning, attesting to the possibility of multiple messages within one artwork.

This research into the medium and act of painting itself can remind us of action painting, with artists such as Elaine de Kooning or Joan Mitchell, who took a step back from the canvas and gave meaning to their bodily movements, a topic that has also gripped Julia Dubsky in some recent series.

Georgiana Houghton exhibited a similar approach to her work (as early as 1859), by letting an otherworldly entity guide her. Although Houghton’s inspiration is more spiritual than Dubsky’s intellectual one, they both work in the direction of meaning.