Rabbit Painting

Artist Statement: I invite you to feel your energy catalyzed within the “mirror” of my painting. Painting is my time to play with my energy, getting out of my inner dialogue and into my body, the brush, the canvas. I’m squatting on the floor, hovering above canvases too big for me to reach all the way across. I have to lunge for the paint; my body moves through a yoga pose, then shifts to another side where my arm flows up and down making strokes on canvas as if I were still and it was the earth and brush moving an making the art. My attention dissolves into the painting. When my mind wanders, or if I’m rushing through art hour to get to a different activity, I mess up.But when I can redirect my focus back into the movement, paintbrush, and canvas; the art flows again. For each painting, I’m holding a specific feeling that’s being taken apart and then reconstructed into an unique art piece. If I have done my job, every brushstroke holds my energy at its moment of creation. When I look at my paintings, I get a “whiff” of the energy that I put into them. But for someone else, that energy is just a catalyst for their own experience. I invite you to experience my art with an openness to your own energetic feeling prompted by the painting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Artist Bio: Julia Rue is a painter based in Puerto Rico. Her art is mostly canvas paintings, however she has also completed murals in a Google LLC office building, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA), and other private residencies. Holding a B.A. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering and product design, Julia has generated many innovative art and technology projects including creating AR animations for physical artworks at the emergence of AR popularity, and creating a digital “mirror” for dancers that was displayed at the Boston Convention Center. She has been invited to give workshops and talks to MIT, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA) in Paris, France, the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA , She + Geeks in Boston, and more. Her art has been featured in local and international Press including Deustche Welle Digital, Vice Motherboard, Boston Globe, and MIT Review. In addition to her art practice, Julia is the head gardener and co-manager of meditation retreats at Roots and Water.