Julia Schwadron Marianelli is painter who has shown her work nationally as well as internationally. Schwadron Marianelli served as co-founder of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Sierra Nevada University. She was a Javits Fellow from 2002-2003 and Joan Mitchell Fellow in 2006. She was a Visiting Professor of Painting and Artist in Residence at Chiang Mai University, and a Visiting Professor of Painting at the University of Iowa from 2007-2009. Schwadron Marianelli received her BA in Studio Art from UCSD in 1998 and her MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in 2003. She currently lives and works in South Lake Tahoe, CA.

I often use text phrases as titles to begin a painting that refer to both the natural environment and the human psyche. One painting, titled, “Suppression Tactics,” was conceived of as I considered the wildfire conditions in the west alongside the systemic ways that information is kept from the people who need it most. By layering and weaving the text in and out through the features of the landscape, a painting might become a site to contemplate this alchemy.

Exhibitions:

The Dinner Party