Julie Schumer

Unbashed (diptych)

2021

Julie Schumer is a native of Los Angeles, California, born in 1954. She lives and paints in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She discovered her love of abstract expressionism at the age of five. Schumer was a lawyer for many years and a self-taught artist. Her work is shown in various galleries across the United States and is in numerous private collections. Schumer produced the award-winning feature-length film, The Twilight Angel, about the artistic process and struggle. Schumer paints large and medium-sized abstracts in an expressionist and gestural style. These works are inspired by the great natural beauty and light of her surroundings in New Mexico. She starts by introducing color, shapes and lines, then responds to their development intuitively, 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.