About Julie
Baltimore City
A tunnel fire at Mt. Royal Station, 9/11 (September 11 2001), and the DC Sniper greeted Julie Jankowski in her first 4 months in Baltimore. She had relocated from the Midwest to work on her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Perhaps it was a mixture of these dire circumstances, along with her interest in the awesomeness of satellite networks that connect us and new imaging technologies that led her to her current work. Jankowski uses satellite images, GPS tracking maps and maps of… more
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Drawings
Graphite drawings on paper using linear and tonal techniques. I use this process to help me think about subjects of paintings, and the formal concerns of design.
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Astrodome nostalgia 1980sgraphite on paper
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The Meadowlands, graphiteGraphite on paper
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Blurred Stadium, graphiteGraphite on paper
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overlayink on paper
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centris planstabilo pencil on vellum
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deconstructed stadiumstabilo pencil on vellum
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post New Orleanswax pencil on polypropylene
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GPS Amsterdam, graphiteGraphite on paper
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Leaning in is not always the best strategyink on paper. map of remembered sensations
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What we're looking for determines what we seedigital image on vinyl, 4ft. x 17 ft.
Shelters and Traps: part of the System
Environments distressed by natural occurrences e.g. flood, hurricane, threaten or destroy human habitation and survival. Once inhabited, these environs, offered as shelter evolve into a trap for those seeking refuge.
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Blackout, Aug. 3, 2003Oil on canvas. Based on satellite photo of electrical grid failure on East coast, stretching to parts of Detroit.
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Escape Route 10Oil on canvas. New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
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Disaster PlanOil on panel. View of road infrastructure adjacent to the Superdome, to be used as the evacuate route for citizens of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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Meadowlands NocturneOil on panel.
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Terminal X-essoil and wax pencil on canvas
Homeland Security
Based on digital imaging techniques, night vision equipment, and satellite observation technologies enabling surveillance around the globe. These night vision images are applied to familiar public sites, public works and democratic institutions.
unmusements
Defunct spaces, failed systems, shelters that become traps are examined in these pieces. Once colonized by the masses, these exciting, public spaces now exist in a state of deconstruction, undergoing the process of succession.
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Cleaner, greenerDigital media. imaginary concept of an environmentally friendly Baltimore inner harbor, consisting of green spaces (indicated by red), a people-moving tram and water clean enough to enable healthy, open water swimming
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The Meadowlands in InfraredOil on panel
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Batman EscapesOIl on canvas
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playpenacrylic, colored pencil, on paper
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Mayan MindbenderOil on canvas
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Channel surfin'acrylic, oil pastel on paper