JULIA PINKHAM
Julia Pinkham has been self-employed as an artist since 1979. She grew up in a home filled with art and music, animals and books. Her work has always been strongly influenced by her fascination with and love for the natural world.
Julia’s family traveled through Mexico for a year when she was 10 years old, visiting small towns filled with different kinds of art and crafts; paintings, pottery, weaving, furniture, stone and metalwork. This early experience helped her realize that a life of creating art was possible.
Julia currently works with acrylic and mixed media. Her gestural, abstract paintings on both canvas and paper reflect her ongoing interest in both the Surrealist’s automatic painting and the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art.
She primarily seeks to depict the personal inspiration she finds in the myriad life forms in the world around her.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
ARTAMO GALLERY — 2007-2017
2015 “Flight Plan” paintings in acrylic and mixed media on canvas and paper solo show
2014 “The Red Room” paintings in acrylic on canvas group show
2012 “DConstruction” paintings in acrylic and mixed media canvas and paper solo show
2011 “Emergence” paintings in acrylic and mixed media on canvas and paper solo show
2011 “Tales In Red” paintings in acrylic and mixed media group show
2011 “Waterworld”. paintings in acrylic and mixed media group show
2010 “Inventory” paintings in acrylic and mixed media solo show
2009 “Review 4” paintings in acrylic and mixed media group show
2008 “In Transit” paintings in acrylic and mixed media solo show
2007 “Sense and Energy” paintings in acrylic and mixed media solo show
EDUCATION
OXNARD COLLEGE — 1996 - 2002 ART STUDIES WITH JAMES JARVAISE
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2024 “Ephemera 2” The Henry Taylor Gallery, China Town, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Synergy” The Handel Evans Gallery, Camarillo, CA 2019 “Pollen Nation” The Member’s Gallery, Camarillo, CA
2017 “Ephemera OS” 643 Project Space, Ventura, CA
2015 “The Planets Project” for the New West Symphony; a performance combining painting with music in Holtz’s symphony of “The Planets”
2015 “Kinetic Lines” The Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo CA
2014 “The Painted Line, Work on Canvas and Paper” The Carnegie Art Museum 424 South “C” Street, Oxnard, CA
2009 “Exaltation Of The Insignificants” Terra Galleria, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2008 “Transitions” Downtown Center For The Arts, Oxnard, CA
2006 “After Images” SCIART, 1 University Drive, Camarillo, CA
2005 “A Magical World View” The Upstairs Gallery, 545 W. Main Street, Ventura, CA
2003 “The Floating World” The Hall Gallery, 1 University Drive, Camarillo, CA
2001 “New Work” The Studio Gallery, Channel Islands Harbor, CA
SELECTED AWARDS
2019 “New Revolutions” The Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA 1st Place Award
2013 “Nautica” Ventura County Maritime Museum, Channel Islands Harbor, CA 1st Place Award
2006 “National Open” Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA 3rd Place Award 2-D
2006 “SCIART Member Show” CSUCI, Camarillo, CA juried by Nathan Laramendy President’s Award
2005 “SCIART Member’s Show” CSUCI, Camarillo, CA 2nd Place Award 2-D 2004 “The Art Of Movement” SCIART, Camarillo, CA juried by Walter Askin
3rd Place Award 2-D
