Julia Kier Wilson earned her MFA from SCAD in 2018. She creates artwork that upends formal preconceptions. Ideas of looking at and looking past are reassessed. The Charlottesville native and Ancient Greek and Latin scholar references diverse influences such as Chris Marker, Barbara Kruger, Roland Barthes, John Baldessari, and Georgia O’Keefe. From a background in photography, she reinterprets visual information through media such as ink on canvas. She says of her work, "I’m emphasizing the importance of context when we receive information, and how word and image work together. In the age of information, we’re being bombarded. We’re not aware of how much because we’ve adapted to the climate. With our cell phones, we’re creating a surfeit of redundant images. It’s the artist’s job to pull photography from its cultural debasement and make something new."
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