The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The I Lichen New York paintings by June Julian combine nature, architecture and popular culture. They
reflect the author’s personal experience of place as effected by ecological pressures. Since lichens
only grow in unpolluted places, these works critique the degradation of air quality due
to urban over development.

A personal account of the author’s experience with skin cancer and its relationship to climate change.
It includes 6 original acrylic paintings in her “Here Not There” series.
The paintings show solitary pale nude figures reclining in an expanse of scorching desert with a backdrop of fiery skies, distant mesas and mountains. The colors are hot,…[Read more]

In Hawaii, it is believed that the fragrance of the Plumeria blossom makes worries go away. These personal landscapes with the Plumeria flower and the phantom limbs on proud display, and with all of our poignant collective back stories behind the brush, refer to the shared phenomena of our human condition: aching emotional absence, lingering…[Read more]

In the Insomnia in Venice paintings, the waters are silently flooding the lamp-lit calli and canals, making damp patterns on the ancient walls. Twelve images of Acqua Alta and Plague Doctor masks point to climate change and to the current insidious health threats we face with the current Covid 19 pandemic. As the waters continue to rise and…[Read more]

Perhaps the time is right to retrieve Abstract Illusionism from the dimming corners of
recent art history and to see what it has to say about aesthetic tropes and mass
persuasions. Artists, like politicians, can manipulate us to accept any illusion.
They ask us to suspend disbelief and to blindly follow. We can play the artist or the
lemming…[Read more]

How else can we grow out of the complacency of the familiar but to seek the unfamiliar? We remember that it has been common practice for artists to be inspired by outside sources in their quests for maximum beauty and truth. My impulse is not to appropriate nor to commercialize that imagery, but through it, with reverence, to expand our capacity…[Read more]

Audible Picasso is a system that I have created for hearing paintings. For this work, I have chosen a Minotaur painting by Picasso. Picasso’s composition is employed as the basis for musical notation and performance, i.e., its visual configurations are interpreted into sound patterns.

Audible Picasso is a system that I have created for hearing paintings. For this work, I have chosen a Minotaur painting by Picasso. Picasso’s composition is employed as the basis for musical notation and performance, i.e., its visual configurations are interpreted into sound patterns.

Rodrick B. MacLennan, FN ’98, and Dr. June Julian carried Explorers Club Flag #109 on two recent expeditions to the Isles of Vallay and North Uist to record the effects of rising seas and violent storms on endangered coastal archaeology sites there. Their research objective was to document the current status of sites that were first discovered by…[Read more]

This short video was presented at the Atlantic Blues – Paintings from the Edge Exhibition
in September 2019 at Galleria Puccini in Ancona, Italy.
It also includes works from two additional painting series by June Julian:
The Sound of the Sea – 8 Oil Paintings on Panel, 11 in. X 14in. 2018-2019 and
Here Not There – 6 Acrylic Paintings on…[Read more]