Julie Schumer

Julie Schumer, a native of Los Angeles, California, lives and paints in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She discovered her love of abstract expressionism at age 5. A lawyer for many years, Schumer is self-taught. Her work is shown in various galleries across the United States and is in numerous private collections. Schumer produced the award winning film, The Twilight Angel, about the artistic process and struggle.
Schumer paints large and medium sized abstracts in an expressionist and gestural style. She paints smaller works on paper as preparation for the larger canvas works. These works are inspired by the great natural beauty and light of her surroundings in New Mexico. She starts by introducing color, shapes and line, then responds to their development in an intuitive fashion, layer after layer. More recently she has explored a limited, neutral palette with appearing and disappearing lines and emerging and dissolving forms. These works are at once mysterious, moody, and powerful yet luminous as the result of many layers of paint applied and removed and reflect upon the fragility and vulnerability of life.

I eceived a B.A. in English from the University of California at Los Angeles and a J.D. degree from Loyola-Marymount Los Angeles. I am a self-taught artist, and have received instruction from Ed Gilliam in New Mexico, and Robert Burridge and Mira White in California.

2019, October, Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2019, September, Group show of women abstract painters, Moberg Gallery, IA
2019, January, Group show, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2018, October, Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2018, June, Group show, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2017, July, Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2017, April, Art Expo New York, NY, NY Finalist for Redwood Media Group Artist of the Year competition
2017, April, solo show, Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2017, March, two person show, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2017 Spectrum Indian Wells, Palm Desert, CA
2016 Miami Spectrum, Miami, FL
2016 Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2016, February, two person show, Louis Underwood Hopkins Center for the Arts, Lubbock TX
2015, January, solo show, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA
2014 May, group show, Jay Etikin Gallery, Memphis, TN
2013, June, group show, Sarah Park Gallery, Stonington, CT
2012, December, group show, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2012, April, group show Muse Fine Art, Denver, CO
2011, November, group show Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
2011, November, group show at Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011, May, group show, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011, April, group show, Four Starr Gallery, Stonington, CT
2011, January, three person show, Matrix Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2010, September, three person show, Matrix Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2010, August, group show1228 Parkway Art Space, Santa Fe, NM
2009, November, group show, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009, May, group show, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008, November, group show, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008, May, group show, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007, December, group show, Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007, October, group show, Marziart, Hamburg, Germany
2007, September, group show Four Starr Gallery, Stonington, CT
2007, September, two person show 1228 Parkway Art Space, Santa Fe, NM
2007, May, group show, Farrell Fischoff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007, April, group show, Four Starr Gallery, Stonington, CT
2006 October, two person show, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY
2006, June, two person show, Farrell Fischoff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006, May, group show, Lyman Allyn Musuem, New London, CT
2006, March, group show, Four Starr Gallery, Stonington, CT
2005, August, two person show, Farrell Fischoff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005, May, group show, Farrell Fischoff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005, April, two person show, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY
2005, March, Emerging Artists Show, Scottsdale, AZ
2005, January, group show, Farrell Fischoff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004, November, two person show, SKF Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004, April, group juried show, Master Works of New Mexico 6th Annual Spring Arts Show. Albuquerque, NM
2003, October, group juried show, 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pastel Society of the Southwest, Dallas, TX


PUBLICATIONS:

July, 2014, Studio Visit Magazine
December, 2012, Denver Centric Magazine
Fall, 2012-Winter, 2013, Tucson Where Magazine
May, 2011, American Art Collector Magazine
September 2010, Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, NM
Spring, 2010 Tops Magazine, Lexington, Ky
Fall/Winter 2007 Trend Magazine, Santa Fe, NM
October, 2007, Internationale Kunst, Hamburg
September, 2007, Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, NM
2007, Book Cover, The Meaning of Others, by Ruthellen Josselson, et al., published by the American Psychological Assocation
April 2006, Stonington Times, Stonington, CT
June 2006, Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, NM
December, 2005, Albuquerque Journal North, Santa Fe, NM
Summer, 2005, Arts and Antiques Magazine
May, 2005, Lexington Herald Leader, Lexington, Ky
May, 2005, Nougat Magazine, Lexington, Ky