Julie Pawlowski

For the past year, I've been chasing light across Southern California and learning a new culture, urban landscape, and color palette that is vastly different from the midwest I grew up with. My recent images document LA from the perspective of my car as I travel throughout the megacity. Capturing both the quiet and chaotic moments, I'm embracing long exposures and allowing car movement to help dictate the final image and paint the abstract rhythms of LA.

Spanning the years 2014-2017, Remember My Heart is a series exploring the process of displacement and forced migration rapidly unfolding in traditional Shanghai communities due to mass urbanization. Along with the evident physical transformation, this upheaval is playing a vital role in modifying the cultural and social dynamics throughout China. The hidden narratives from within the disappearing shikumen and longtang neighborhoods reveal what will soon become history.  

Images from The Horning Nursery series document Julie’s reconnection to her great-grandfather’s farm while presenting her first impressions of a history never told. After nearly 60 years, a recent visit uncovered answers to family mysteries, revealed lost items long discarded, and presented a new story to include in her identity.

An ongoing series, images from Deep Wounds study the history of gun regulation and how the use of propaganda and slogans by both the NRA and gun lobbyists has changed and formed today’s American Gun Culture over time. Presented as tree carvings, each NRA slogan has become an undeniable part of American History and has left a visible scar that only gets deeper with age.

Julie has always been inspired by nature and seeks out diverse landscapes through her travels near and far. Since 2013, she has documented her explorations including North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland, and Iceland.

Painted with oil on solid birch wood panels, this ongoing series studies the abstract qualities of mountain landscapes often allowing the loose brushwork to determine the overall results. 

Each work is unique, original and signed on the back. All artwork for sale is labelled as AVAILABLE.

For purchase and framing options, please contact julie@juliepawlowski.com.