About The Artist
JULIE SLATTERY
Julie Slattery is a sculpture artist based in Asheville, North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a concentration in sculpture from Alfred University (Alfred, New York). After graduating, Slattery moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to pursue her sculpture career, where she worked in several bronze casting foundries including working as a metal chaser at the world famous Shidoni Bronze Foundry (Tesuque, NM). Slattery has exhibited her work across the country including Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry, Indiana and most recently exhibited work at the Caldwell Arts Annual Sculpture Celebration Show where she received the Best in Show Award for her sculpture “Here Where the Soil Was Bare”.
Photo by Matt Dayhoff, Journal Star
Artist Statement
My sculptural work explores emotional responses of loss and attachment. The figures and objects I create reflect sensations of unease, oddity, and a recognition of something that was or could have been. I incorporate contrasting materials and textures to show the different sides of human nature. Soft and smooth against rough and raw. These contrasts communicate moments of change and moments of reflection.
Interested in casting as a conveyance of temperance and transition, I utilizes the process to communicate the importance of reflection in honest self-expression. I bring my creations to fruition using reactions to changes, adaptations, and transformations as influences I encounter in my own life. I value cast metal and its process for the relevance of perseverance.
The casting process is long and tedious. It requires the transition of one material to another through a series of molds. Each mold opens to a new and changed object which is then perfected in the final piece. This process relates to the ever growing and changing that exist within ourselves as humans. Every 7 years our entire body has rebuilt all of its cells. We are literally a new person.
My work incorporates the human body and common everyday objects to inspire relatability. Forming a connection with the viewer by capturing a moment in a feeling, the piece becomes a conversation of the human struggles and victories that we experience daily.
Photo by Cameron Thacker
LOCATIONS
Metal Museum Memphis, TN “Branching Out” 2/18-9/8
Riverview Station, Studio 291, Asheville, NC
Horse and Hero Asheville, NC
Sculpture Trails Solsberry, IN
Form & Concept, Santa Fe , NM
CURRICULUM VIATE
2024 Caldwell Arts Sculpture Celebration, Lenoir, NC (Awarded Best in Show)
2024 "Branching Out” Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
2023 “Skulls and Bones” Foundation Studios, Asheville, NC
2023 Caldwell Arts Sculpture Celebration, Lenoir, NC (Awarded First Place)
2023 Uproar Festival of Public Art, Chapel Hill, NC (Sponsor’s Choice Award)
2021 Revenant, Continuum Gallery, Hendersonville, NC
2020 Schwa Show, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC
2019 Fierce: Women in Iron, Prairie Art Center, Peoria, IL
2019 Cope, Drag and Core, Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL
2019 The Rare Few, Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL
2019 Microcosm, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Inner Orbit, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 In Microscale, Matallo Gallery, Madrid, NM
2018 Mirror Box, Strangers Collective, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Guns to Art, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Spring Ahead, Shidoni Bronze Foundry Tesuque, NM
2015 Holiday Art Show, Mountain Trails Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Spiedie Fest, Binghamton, NY
2015 Mural Fest, Binghamton, NY
2014 School of Art and Design, NYSCC Alfred University BFA Thesis Exhibition, Alfred, NY
2013 Sculpture and Dimensional Studies Post-Present Exhibition, Alfred, NY
2013 First Friday Art Walk, Hornell, NY
2012 Space and Place, Alfred, NY
2011 Star Bucks Art Show, Vestal, NY
2011 Roberson Museum Regional Art Exhibition, Binghamton NY
2010 Solo Exhibition First Friday Art Walk, Binghamton, NY
PRESS
Journal Star-2019
Pasatiempo-2017
Press and Sun Bulletin-2015
Post Present-2013
Julie’s jewelry was used for Netflix Original Series Day Break.