Julie Castillo

"I am enthusiastic to be included and honored to be a featured Artist at the AD ART SHOW 2020 in the OCULUS at the WESTFIELD in the WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY, the month of SEPTEMBER, 2020 also online at .
and my recent inclusion of RALPH LAUREN illustrations in the SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES, New York City.  These were paintings I illustrated for the POLO RALPH LAUREN STADIUM collections in the 1990's.  There will be future Auctions of art that I created including logos, series images and original wildlife illustrations from various POLO RALPH LAUREN Collections".

Recently incorporating water soluble drawing pencils with watercolor sticks & oil sticks both on canvas and on Oleo paper. This has given her a natural freedom of expression only a solid paint stick can give. The use of these new tools to create allow for a drawing/painting expressive style with watercolors, gouache, egg tempra, pastels, oils; sculpting with clay and paper; and printmaking.

“Exploring landscape painting in the past with watercolors, gouache and egg tempra has been a very gratifying learning experience.” Realizing a major change in her work with these newer materials has been a revelation. The great illustrators turned fine artists, such...

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Art Students League, New York, NY
Newark Museum, Rutgers Extension, Newark, NJ

AWARDS:
“The Gretchen Richardson Memorial Sculpture Award”, for “Woman in Gauze Dress, September, 2014.

“Eve Helman Memorial Award” works on paper, for “Lingering SoRo Sweetness”, August, 2017.

“Certificate of Excellence”, “Shelter 2018 Exhibition, for “Bouquet making”. March 1, 2018.

“Cranford Plein Air Quick Draw 2015 & 2018”, First Place Winner for “RR Underpass”, watercolor painting, two and one half hours timed contest.

HONORS:
Juried/Induction Ceremony into The National Association of Women Artists, Inc, November 8, 2012, at the Rubin Museum, New York City.

2020 • September 1-30, a featured Artist, AD ART SHOW 2020 in the OCULUS at the WESTFIELD in the WORLD TRADE CENTER and online at Artsy.net in conjunction with MvVo ART.

2019 • FEBRUARY-MARCH, SOLO SHOW, “THE DIVINE INSPIRATION OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS".
Simply Gallery, NJ

2018 • MARCH, “SHELTER 2018”,
Harlem School of the Arts, New York, NY

2017 • OCTOBER, “DREYER FARMS ART SHOW”, Dreyer Farms, NJ

2017• OCTOBER, “ART ANGELS”, NAWA Gallery, New York, NY

2017 • FEBRUARY-MARCH, “WOMEN ARTISTS, COAST TO COAST-EAST”, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY

2017 • AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, “128TH ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION”, Sylvia Ward Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY

2016 • AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, “127TH ANNUAL MEMBERS‘ EXHIBITION”, Sylvia Ward Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY

2016 • JUNE 2016-2017, “SIMPLY GALLERY EXHIBITION”, New Jersey

2015 • SEPTEMBER, “126TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEMBERS‘ EXHIBITION”, Sylvia Ward Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY

2015 • SEPTEMBER, “PORTRAITS”, A JURIED EXHIBITION, Monmouth Museum, NJ

2014 • OCTOBER, 125TH ANNUAL MEMBERS‘ EXHIBITION”, Sylvia Wald Po Kim Gallery, New York,...