Julie Bozzi

Installation Images

Selected Works

Julie Bozzi
West Texas, 1985
Oil on paper
22 1/2h x 30w inches
Julie Bozzi
Morning/Stacked Hay, 2014
Gouache on paper
6 5/8h x 9 3/4w inches
Julie Bozzi
Midday/Stacked Hay, 2014
Gouache on paper
6 5/8h x 9 3/4w inches
Julie Bozzi
Late Afternoon/Stacked Hay, 2014
Gouache on paper
6 5/8h x 9 3/4w inches
Julie Bozzi
Evening/Stacked Hay, 2014
Gouache on paper
6 5/8h x 9 3/4w inches

Biography

Julie Bozzi (b. San Jose, California) earned both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of California, Davis, and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 1975.  Her work explores the culture of convenience prevalent in the United States by examining suburban roadsides. Turning our attention to what is often overlooked, Bozzi crafts meticulous paintings of banal suburban settings. At a scale rarely exceeding four by ten inches, Bozzi’s horizontal landscapes are painted on the side of the road in the tradition of plein air painting. Bozzi completes each work over the course of several days, creating a sense of condensed time and presence in an ever-distracted world. Her work frequently features scenes from California and from Texas.

Bozzi has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Select group exhibitions include The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX, The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The New Museum, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Many notable institutions have collected Bozzi’s work, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., the Dallas Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bozzi’s accolades include the Award in Painting from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in 1981, an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2005, and the Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art in 2017.

 

Exhibitions

On-site and Individual Works

Julie Bozzi

Eye Candy
Talley Dunn Gallery
February 14 – April 6, 2024

Julie Bozzi

Landscape Paintings
Talley Dunn Gallery
October 24 – December 13, 2014

Off-site

Julie Bozzi

Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
June 3 – November 12, 2021

Julie Bozzi

American Food
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
September 7, 2019 – February 2, 2020

Julie Bozzi

Sarah Williams and Julie Bozzi: AS IS rural realism
The Grace Museum
March 25 – August 12, 2018

Press

Glasstire

“Applause for Eye Candy: Recent Exhibitions in Dallas”
by William Sarradet
March 17, 2024

Dallas Morning News

“Art Notes: Show at Talley Dunn looks at labor, border issues”
by Michael Granberry
October 2014

Glasstire

“Julie Bozzi: Landscapes 1975-2003”
by Janet Tyson
November 2, 2003