Julia Woli Scott creates atmospheric and delicately layered paintings of the natural world that shift and quietly loosen to reveal their materiality. These gestural depictions of human, plant, and animal forms inhabit dream-like abstracted landscapes and traverse metaphoric terrain to explore questions of healing generational and personal trauma.
“I am interested in reinterpreting the authority of the photograph to reflect an emotional vision that aligns more closely with my experience. Through the consecrated space of painting, flattened information opens, breathing with waves of color and distortion - allowing us to re-experience our relationships with the natural world and each other.”
- january 2025
She works from a studio in downtown Fresno with her partner & collaborator Quinn Bowman.
Together they form the mural painting team WOLI & QUINN whose public art projects can be seen in downtown Fresno and the Tower District.
Contact her here.
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