Jamian Juliano-Villani

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Jamian Juliano-Villani (born 1987) is an American painter. [1] Juliano-Villani painting's pull from a wide range of references including fashion, photography, illustration, and art history to create hyper-saturated scenes and portraits. [2] Juliano-Villani lives and works in New York, NY.

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Early life and education

Juliano-Villani grew up in Tewksbury, New Jersey. [3] As a daughter of commercial painters, Juliano-Villani spent much of her childhood in her parents silk-screening factory familiarizing herself with 1970s and 1980s graphic design. [4]

Juliano-Villani graduated from Rutgers University in 2013. [5]

Work

Painting

Juliano-Villani's first solo exhibition, Me, Myself and Jah, opened at Rawson Projects in 2013. In an interview with Jonathan Griffin, featured on ARTnews, Juliano-Villani says of her work,

"My paintings are meant to function like TV, in a way. The viewer is supposed to become passive. Instead of alluding or whispering, like a lot of art does, this is art that tells you what’s up. It kind of does the work for you, like TV does." [6]

The following year, Juliano-Villani was included in the group show, Puddle, Pothole, Portal, curated by Camille Henrot and Ruba Katrib at SculptureCenter in Queens. [7]

In 2015, Juliano-Villani had her first solo museum show at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. [8] Later that year, the artist presented new works at JTT gallery, titled Crypod. Writer and art critic Sarah Nicole Prickett writes for Artforum, "The best painting is the one that looks you square in the eyes, but its own eyes are scratched right out: Penny’s Change is a smear-up of a puffer-jacketed graffiti artist’s selfie and Peter Saul’s Mona Lisa Throws Up Pizza, 1995, with the kind of teeth—big but mostly missing—that appear to you in nightmares about money." [9] The artist has lectured at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and at the Swiss Institute alongside Brian Belott . [10] [11]

In early 2018, Ten Pound Hand, Juliano-Villani's second show at JTT gallery, opened with positive reviews. Critic Zoë Lescaze writes that, "In Gone with the Wind (all works 2018), a cartoon fish gluts itself on Coca-Cola while a helpless-looking firefighter floats above burning California. October depicts an ash-choked Pompeian infant blowing across an empty school hallway. The linoleum floor is littered with shattered glass, in an eerie evocation of recent school shootings. Together, these works convey a loss of control, of entropy overriding security, idealism, and best-case scenarios."

Juliano-Villani sources a wide range of artists, animators, and illustrators in her work such as Chuck Jones, Marcell Jankovics, Ralph Bakshi, Bernard Szajner, R. Crumb, and more. [12] She approaches each painting with a “hyper-specific” concept in mind spending, workshopping various concepts together from archival and internet research.

Juliano-Villani names Mike Kelley, John Wesley, Giorgio Morandi, Wendy White, and Gertrude Abercrombie as some of her favorite artists. [13]

In 2021, Villani opened a project-space-gallery with painter and video artist Billy Grant and musician Ruby Zarsky of Sateen. [14] [15]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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  2. ↑ Russeth, Andrew (2016-02-17). "Cutting a Fine Figure: Around New York". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  3. ↑ "When Is Artist-on-Artist Theft Okay? - artnet News". artnet News. 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. ↑ "Jamian Juliano-Villani". Jonathan Griffin. 2014-08-22. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  5. ↑ Frank, Priscilla (2013-10-17). "Jamian Juliano-Villani Talks Feminism, Art School And Sake". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  6. ↑ Russeth, Andrew (2014-08-22). "Jamian Juliano-Villani Talks Painting". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  7. ↑ "The Art of Funny: Cartoon Imagery, Often With an Edge". The New York Times. 2014-10-09. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  8. ↑ The Editors of ARTnews (2015-03-31). "Jamian Juliano-Villani at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-05-06.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. ↑ "Jamian Juliano-Villani at JTT". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  10. ↑ "2015 Lecture Series - Cranbrook Academy of Art". Cranbrook Academy of Art. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  11. ↑ "Artist Talk | Jamian Juliano-Villani with special performance by Brian Belott | Swiss Institute". www.swissinstitute.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  12. ↑ "Jamian Juliano-Villani". Jonathan Griffin. 2014-08-22. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  13. ↑ "The Editorial MagazineJamian Juliano Villani: Me, Myself and Jah - The Editorial Magazine". the-editorialmagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  14. ↑ Schneier, Matthew (2021-12-07). "At Jamian Juliano-Villani's New Gallery O'Flaherty's, 'Taste Is Out the Door'". The Cut. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  15. ↑ "Jamian Juliano-Villani, Ruby Zarsky, and Billy Grant Open O'Flaherty's Art Gallery". L'Officiel USA. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
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