B. 1981 Currently resides in NYC USA

PHONE : +1 206.265.2764

EMAIL : info @ jduron.com

ABOUT THIS SITE:

Julianduron.com version 8 features both my art and the other creative endeavors that make my life whole. I am pleased to be able to say these areas overlap significantly. My art is presented here in an online gallery designed to highlight the evolution of the elements that make all fine art compelling: composition, execution, color, technique, and incorporation of technology. For this reason, the gallery features both works now in private collections and works that are currently available.

BIO:

I currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The vibrant art communities of NYC are supported by artists at every level and an international catalogue of discriminating collectors. They share a sense of community that fosters the development of creativity – in art, music, film, and dance. Traveling from my home into the CIty on a daily basis offers the elements of everyday life that I find vital to my own well-being: unlimited surfaces to exhibit work, fine coffee, strong web communities and creative computer subcultures, to name a few.

I publish two webzines titled Coattails.org and Bodegaboys.com. These sites features emerging music, music videos, photography, comedy, and other popular media.

ARTIST STATEMENT

There is no such thing as a freestanding work of art. Each work is bracketed by: 1) everything that came before it, and 2) the next blank canvas. Between the two is the grand gulf that excites artists and collectors alike. My paintings emerge almost exclusively from the natural environment. Textures – organic, synthetic, and imaginary – are an important part of the composition, and are natural outgrowths of the subject matter.

This new collection of work reflects my passion for painting together with an experimental video titled International Instructional Video Series, which in my mind acts as the sour cherry on top of TEEN ANGST. The exhibition title seemed like the best way to describe my feelings toward the compositions as a whole, boasting a hyper-color palette, fluorescent pigments, and permanent marker. Each painting is a thorough exploration in hasty mark making, meaning, investigational or instantly gratifying marks with radical variations in surface quality and finish. The addition of inscriptions into the work references themes or brands popular among the youth demographic such as Google, scum, Coke, Four Loko, Apple, etc., which I attempted to render in adolescent style graffiti within the backgrounds of each cluttered abstract still life. Most of the lumber used to build each painting surface comes from discarded or found materials, which I hand crafted into gallery style panels, and applied synthetic materials such as acrylic paint, aerosol, marker etc. This aesthetic, along with exposing raw elements of the construction on the surfaces calls attention to the materials in a Modernist sense reflecting the faux Earth conscious, here today–gone tomorrow, shabbychic, bipolar, lazy, medicated, aloof, spastic and utter lackadaisical TEEN ANGST I have observed in art/design school and popular culture over the last few years.

In addition to painting, I have constantly experimented with other media: sculpture, drawings, vector art, and photography. Selected examples of these efforts can be found in the ARCHIVES (coming soon).