LINETIMELINE :: Julie Weitz

10.9.10

Julie Weitz combines painting, drawing, and collage to address the complex and entangled ways in which we picture others and ourselves. For LINETIMELINE, she usurps traditional notions of portraiture, imagining the form of the head as a sequence of pulsating lines, rhythmically arranged in black and fluorescent yellow and nearly indistinguishable from its background. Circular cutout forms with delicate drawings of hypnotic patterns stand in as eyes. Intentionally disruptive, Weitz employs optical effects that seize the viewer’s attention and direct it towards a single point of focus. With these new works, she probes the threshold between visibility and invisibility, as the mask or persona that we call ourselves becomes optically elusive, unpredictably simple, and strangely mesmerizing.