Revision of Julie Jankowski's portfolio from Fri, 09/02/2022 - 21:15

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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Centers and systems

Stadiums and cities in the U.S. from satellite vantage point

Palimpsest, Houston

oil and wax pencil on panel
From Above

painting installation, oil on wood and panels
superdome

oil on wood
astrodome (refuge and trap)

oil on wood

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.

Astrodome nostalgia 1980s

graphite on paper
The Meadowlands, graphite

Graphite on paper
Blurred Stadium, graphite

Graphite on paper
overlay

ink on paper
centris plan

stabilo pencil on vellum
deconstructed stadium

stabilo pencil on vellum
post New Orleans

wax pencil on polypropylene
GPS Amsterdam, graphite

Graphite on paper
Leaning in is not always the best strategy

ink on paper. map of remembered sensations
What we're looking for determines what we see

digital 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.

Blackout, Aug. 3, 2003

Oil on canvas. Based on satellite photo of electrical grid failure on East coast, stretching to parts of Detroit.
Escape Route 10

Oil on canvas. New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
Disaster Plan

Oil 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.
Meadowlands Nocturne

Oil on panel.
Terminal X-ess

oil 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.

Astrodome, Night Vision

Acrylic, graphite, ink on paper
A Connecticut high school, Night Vision

Oil on panel. Parish Hill was designed by architects as a "democratic" space, where by no one figure of authority could surveil its halls as an omnipotent figure of authority.

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.

Cleaner, greener

Digital 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
The Meadowlands in Infrared

Oil on panel
Batman Escapes

OIl on canvas
playpen

acrylic, colored pencil, on paper
Mayan Mindbender

Oil on canvas
Channel surfin'

acrylic, oil pastel on paper