Julie Curtiss - The Virtues of Rebellion New York Thursday, October 20, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
    Private Collection, New York
    Private Collection, Hong Kong
    Phillips, New York, November 13, 2019, lot 303
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Los Angeles, Various Small Fires, Hecate, November 11 – December 16, 2017

  • Artist Biography

    Julie Curtiss

    Born and raised in Paris, France, Julie Curtiss (b. 1982) now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Curtiss studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris.
     

    The artist draws on a history of figurative painting including 18th- and 19th-century French painting, as well as the Chicago Imagists and the ‘pop’ imagery of comic books, manga and illustration. Frequent subject matter focuses on the deconstructed female body and symbols of stereotypical female aesthetics. There are similarities between Curtiss’ work and the painters of the female Surrealist movement of the early 20th century in the use of distorted perspectives, dreamscapes, and humor to reflect upon the female experience.  
     

    Curtiss’ work is represented in a number of museum collections, among which are Bronx Museum, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; High Museum, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Maki Collection, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Yuz Museum, Shanghai.
     

     

     
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Second thought

signed, titled and dated "Second thought, 2017 Julie Curtiss" on the reverse
acrylic and oil on canvas
18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.6 cm)
Painted in 2017.

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The Virtues of Rebellion