Glacial Rain, by Julia Fernandez-Pol
Though fashionably late, I have decided it is time to announce my choice for my current favorite artwork on display!
This is Julia Fernandez-Pol's Glacial Rain. It is an oil on canvas creation that was made in 2008.
What first attracted me to this work was the fantastical combination of vivid and subdued colors. They pulled me in. It is the complex and varied textual work, however, that creates a unique visual experience that makes you want to sit in front of the piece for hours.
This textual work is Julia Fernandez-Pol's specialty. She describes her focus as the "emerging relationships between rococo aesthetic, fetishized surface qualities and a core curiosity in nature, science, and light to result in a visceral experience."
The Rococo, for our unfamiliar readers, was a period and style of art that took place in the late 18th century. It began in France and eventually spread around Europe. It was characterized by wildly ornate and lavish forms mainly in architecture and decorative arts like furniture. In painting rococo still focused on all things rich but it also had a focus on the wild, asymmetrical beauty of nature and high-class interaction with it. Looking at Fernandez-Pol's own wild and rich compositions, we can see why the phrase "rococo aesthetic" is apt.
Her interest in nature, however, goes beyond that displayed in the high-class outings featured in Rococo paintings. Her own love of nature goes back to her scientist parents who gave her a look past the seen world into the abstract world of science. We can see this influence in many of the titles of her other works such as Double Helix and Deep Ocean Trench. You can view those works here. She expresses how she is influenced by nature in her own work:
"Nature, like the artist, has an infinite number of ways of expressing itself. My work is driven by interest in creating a world that originates from specific, dynamic forms found universally in nature.
I am fascinated with creating experiences of extreme beauty and visual decadence in order to generate an overwhelming visual impact within our contemporary world. I use excess and opulence to explore the human experiences when confronted with truly unusual and incredible growths, patterns, and structures in the natural world. I create abstract landscapes of microscopic and macroscopic scale that are developed organically based on ideas of circularity, regeneration, accumulation, and decay."
If you are interested in seeing this piece in person, it is located in the FAC directly through the gift shop, up the stairs, and to the left. Though I have tried to give a sense of the textual work done through a little photography, it is best viewed in person. I hope I've peaked your interest!
For more information about Julia Fernandez-Pol, check out her website at www.juliafernandezpol.com or check out her spread on Maake at www.maakemagazine.com/julia-fernandez-pol/
The Rococo, for our unfamiliar readers, was a period and style of art that took place in the late 18th century. It began in France and eventually spread around Europe. It was characterized by wildly ornate and lavish forms mainly in architecture and decorative arts like furniture. In painting rococo still focused on all things rich but it also had a focus on the wild, asymmetrical beauty of nature and high-class interaction with it. Looking at Fernandez-Pol's own wild and rich compositions, we can see why the phrase "rococo aesthetic" is apt.
Her interest in nature, however, goes beyond that displayed in the high-class outings featured in Rococo paintings. Her own love of nature goes back to her scientist parents who gave her a look past the seen world into the abstract world of science. We can see this influence in many of the titles of her other works such as Double Helix and Deep Ocean Trench. You can view those works here. She expresses how she is influenced by nature in her own work:
"Nature, like the artist, has an infinite number of ways of expressing itself. My work is driven by interest in creating a world that originates from specific, dynamic forms found universally in nature.
I am fascinated with creating experiences of extreme beauty and visual decadence in order to generate an overwhelming visual impact within our contemporary world. I use excess and opulence to explore the human experiences when confronted with truly unusual and incredible growths, patterns, and structures in the natural world. I create abstract landscapes of microscopic and macroscopic scale that are developed organically based on ideas of circularity, regeneration, accumulation, and decay."
If you are interested in seeing this piece in person, it is located in the FAC directly through the gift shop, up the stairs, and to the left. Though I have tried to give a sense of the textual work done through a little photography, it is best viewed in person. I hope I've peaked your interest!
For more information about Julia Fernandez-Pol, check out her website at www.juliafernandezpol.com or check out her spread on Maake at www.maakemagazine.com/julia-fernandez-pol/
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