Juliana KellerPart-time Instructor,
Painting and DrawingBFA Concordia University (1997 - 2000)
MFA
Concordia University (2000 - 2003)
contact:email:
jkeller@alcor.concordia.catel: 514-848-2424 ext. 4262 / 4263
office: S-VA 250-2
website:http://cargocollective.com/julianaespanakeller#
I am an interdisciplinary artist who links art and life together and
therefore motivated by my everyday surroundings. The scope of my
subjects is diverse as I take up the camera as a tool in pursuit of a
diverse range of artistic experiments that intersect with the realms of
photography, video, installation, sound and performance.
My process deals with and of and about society, community and the
individual and the sense of the fragmentary, ambiguous and the uncertain
nature of living. I use the camera to frame these explorations
critiquing the tradition of self-portraiture, the body, landscape and
sometimes photography's relationship to painting.
In undertaking an interdisciplinary approach to my conceptual process, I
am combining new technologies with traditional practice.
Equally enamored with tattoo culture, new age and campy costume drama, I
construct bizarre intersections of reality and openly collect and
reassemble our collective image-repertoire with intent to provoke
contrasting feelings of discomfort and fascination, repulsion and
seduction while touching on the sublime.
My work is a frozen instant of isolation, a constructed world of popular
culture. As disruptions of postmodern composition, they inhabit skewed
perspectives that reveal one's relationship to reality has been
transformed by the numerous ways in which images are now constructed.
I create a composite with a combination numerous disciplines, materials
and influences, often combined through the use of technology.
areas of expertise: photography, sculpture, painting, installation
research interests: "society, community and the
individual and the sense of the fragmentary, ambiguous and the uncertain
nature of living"
