Julia Dault (born 1977) is a Canadian artist. She is best known for her abstract paintings and Formica and Plexiglas sculptures. She lives and works in Toronto.
Julia Dault | |
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| Born | 1977 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Education | McGill University, Parsons, the New School for Design |
Early life and education
editDault was born in Toronto to Gary Michael Dault, an art critic, and Margaret Crawford, who is an art teacher.[1][2] She attended McGill University, Montreal, and received a BA in Art History in 2001. After having worked as an art critic for The National Post and other publications,[3] she attended Parsons, the New School for Design, New York, and received MFA in Fine Arts in 2008.[4]
Work
editSculpture
Dault has been making sculptures that are all called Untitled with a number since she made Untitled No.1 in 2008 for her thesis show for Parsons.[3] Untitled sculptures are made with industrial materials, such as Formica and Plexiglas, and they are built without glue or screws.[3] Sculptures are fabricated strictly on site without any pretreatment of materials. Each of them is also titled with a date and time stamp to reflect the amount of time it took for Dault to construct the sculpture.[3] The stamp also reflects new iteration in case of reinstallation.[5]
Painting
The use of various hand tools and the idea of removal is fundamental in Dault's paintings.[5] She often paints layers of patterns and then scrapes the top monochrome layer to reveal the patterns underneath.[3] Scraping is done with unique tools, such as door handles, combs created from a sheet of rubber, and plaster tools for home decoration.[5]
Exhibitions
editDault has had solo exhibitions internationally at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2015); Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2015); China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (2014); Galerie Bob van Orsouw Zurich, Switzerland (2013); White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK (2012).
Her work has also been included in group shows including Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami (2013); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (2013); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2013); New Museum, New York, NY (2012); The Museum of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA.
Honors and awards
edit- 2011 Milton & Sally Avery Fellow, The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York
- 2011 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada
Collections
edit- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- British Council, London, UK
- Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
- Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Notes
edit- ^ "Julia Dault: Beauty at a Complicated Angle | Hazlitt". Hazlitt. 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ^ Torontoist (2005-02-15). "The Tall Poppy Interview - Julia Dault, Art Critic | news | Torontoist". Torontoist. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ^ a b c d e "Julia Dault's playful art follows her own strict rules". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ^ "JDA_Bio" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Imperfect Perfections". Retrieved 2016-10-23.