May 31, 2016
Julia Haw (b. 1982, Flint, MI) attended Western Michigan
University with a concentration in painting. She is
recognized for her highly bold, nostalgia-inducing and
memory-staining paintings. She deals with issues rooted in personal
life, Midwestern culture and Western Culture at large that delve
into feminism, ageism, memory deterioration, death, intimacy and
confrontation. She uses oil paint on cotton or linen as her
mainstay medium, in order to achieve empathetic coverage of these
socially and emotionally shared issues, and has been able to
achieve considerable viewer pause through her dedicated work habit,
vibrant color choices, straightforward subject matter, and by using
people and objects within her community as models. Haw’s
paintings tend to function as highly relatable, ensuing discussion
amongst viewers, and bringing the public forum necessarily back.
Her work has been exhibited in such places as the Chicago Cultural
Center, IL State Museum, and extensively with Claire Molek.