Julie Blackmon is a photography based visual artist who currently resides in Springfield, Missouri. Over the past 6 years, Blackmon has been in several shows and received numerous awards. She has shown work at Drury University (2005), Claire Oliver Gallery in New York (2007), and Catherine Eldeman Gallery in Chicago (2008). Her work also appears in several private collections, such as University of Arkansas at Little Rock, George Eastman House (New York), and Museum of Fine Arts in Austin, Texas.
I find Julie Blackmons work very inspirational to what I want to create this semester. Her imagery is beautiful and I love the way that she captures these scenes in a very dynamic way. I feel as if I am looking at a single slice in time. Her use of contrast and rich colours are also fascinating, and something I push for in my own work. I also am very fond of her subject matter, how she uses her children to create these scenes that at first glance seem kind of normal, but at the same moment it seems as though something is out of place.
"The Dutch saying “a Jan Steen household” originated in the seventeenth century and has come to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, are the direct inspiration behind the layered domestic scenes of Julie Blackmon’s photographic work. "
Nordstrom, Alison. Artbook. Radius Books. 2008. Web. http://www.artbook.com/9781934435045.html
"It’s all ignorant bliss, until you notice the pool glimmering on the left with the naked tot at the rim, and a boy’s body splayed just under the water’s surface. Blackmon pushes the dramatic tension with her stringent composition, which veers toward abstraction. A bull’s-eye beach umbrella opposes a round chair. The pool’s corner fills out a perfect square on the upper left. It’s a harmonious world. Only the people throw it askew"
McQuaid, Cate. Intensely Controlled Chaos. The Boston Globe. 2010. Web. http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2010/03/24/julie_blackmons_photos_speak_of_intensely_controlled_chaos/
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