Julia von Metzsch: Midnight at coolidge Point II

On View: February 7 - March 1, 2014
Reception: Friday, February 7, 6 - 8pm

von Metzsch continues to find inspiration from the ocean, and points to her childhood in Manchester-by-the-Sea as integral to her creativity, “Growing up on a cold coast leads to a lot of alone time and daydreaming on the beach; the North Shore is a good place to dream and create.”

Her new paintings are both grounded and representational and spiritual and abstract. Only after unraveling her abstract mark-making is one able to make sense of the story that lies beneath. Her works depict stories, she says, not only from childhood memories, but also from "ridiculous ideas [that] can lead to good paintings," like a starfish ring from her mother that she thought resembled a corpse.

Butterfly and Shark

2012, oil and sawdust on panel, 60x48"
SOLD

Seagull and Skate

2013, oil on panel, 60x48"

Shark's Tooth

2013, oil on panel, 15.75x22.25"
SOLD

Spindrift

2013, oil on panel, 22.25x15.75"

Star Burn

2013, oil on panel, 48x24"

Winter Walk

2013, oil on panel, 60x48"
SOLD

Starstruck

2012, oil on panel, 72x48"

Julia von metzsch

Julia von Metzsch offers a body of work that is vigorous and distinctive. Her paintings are primarily seascapes done on site from Massachusetts’ north shore. Islands, trees, and rocks all come in and out of view, but what is most mysterious is the atmosphere and movement von Metzsch is able to capture.

Von Metzsch received her BA in 2007 and Masters in 2010 in Fine Arts from Boston University, and then returned to Boston University as a MFA Painting Fellow at the School of Visual Arts. von Metzsch is in the collection of Danforth Art.