About
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a chromaphobic sculptor/multi-media artist who prefers to work in all white or monotone. White lends a serenity and a quiet power to my work that brings all elements together in a unifying visual – slowly releasing details with patient, close inspection. The absence of color represents the blanching of memory, purity, sacredness, snow, ice and salt. It is a world of white that shifts delicately from tenuous balance to a longing for spacious calm.
My work grapples with the tension between opposites—fences that both protect and trap, objects encrusted and arrested in time, the coiled energy of barbed wire, photographs of the arctic stitched down in an effort to ‘fix’ global warming. This includes the ‘zero’ moment between action and inaction. Covid was such a time, as is the moment between indecision and decision.
I am currently starting a body of work around the concept of keys that merges the ideas of opposites and that zero moment. This includes access/exclusion – the split second after you push a key into a lock and the door opens. Also the sudden insight gained when using the key to a map, a bit of knowledge acquired that leads to an expansion of thought, and other keys that bridge the gap between understanding/access and being left outside, whether physical or mental.
BIO
Julie Levesque is a multimedia artist working in the Boston area.
In 2001 Levesque took 1st prize in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Annual Invitational Exhibition. As a result, she was invited to create ‘What Remains…’ – an immersive installation in the museum’s galleries. This work is currently installed at the Historic Hampton House Museum or Art & Culture in Miami, Florida until December, 2026.
She is a past winner of the prestigious Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artists Grant as well as a recipient of the Artist’s Trust Grant from the Berkshire/Tatonic Fund.
Her work is included in the collections of the DeCordova Museum, Danforth Museum, 21C Museums and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and has been exhibited widely at venues on the east coast.
Represented by :: Rice Polak Gallery
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