The Hunt Painting

MOUNTED ON WHITE PAPER FOR FULL DIMENTIONS A multimedia artist and storyteller who works primarily on paper, Julia Cella treats her works as vessels that hold and express a raw & organic story. She constructs fictional fantasies that seek to capture the essence of a story and what remains, often considering themes of identity, the physicality of the body vs. place, and queerness. Her work is not defined by medium, but rather her effort to delve into the core of a character, their fleeting intimacies and delicate intricacies. She selects a medium to express a sturdiness, a fluidity, a brightness or dullness, pain and joy as is applicable to each character and story. Her characters, therefore, take the forms of devils, angels, and bodies with contorted and disrupted physical forms: exploring the grotesque, withered and faded beauty that lies within. In many of her pieces, you’ll notice backgrounds & surroundings that intrude on overlapping–sometimes indistinguishable–bodies and adjacent objects. These components act as a visual map that emphasizes confusing borders, blurred boundaries and morphing lines: a mapping of body, self, place, multiple realities, and you.