self-portrait of the artist at work, 2022
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Julia Hendrickson is a visual artist and theologian whose work emphasizes practice and process. She lives a Covid conscious life, as a mechanism of inclusion and care, in the Los Angeles Plain ecoregion. Her primary medium is watercolor and salt on paper, a mixed-media technique that she is operating on the frontier of with her boundary-pushing scale and abstraction. She works serially as a commitment to the printmaking matrix. Julia participates in the tradition of opera Divina, daily work as prayer. She frequently offers a glimpse of her studio practice thru self-filmed videos as an invitation into the reflective space of communal liturgy. Julia has an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Print | Media and an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. She is a Fujimura Fellow and strives to be generative in acts of Culture Care. As a professor, Julia facilitates reflections about the role of art in the world. While waiting for paint to dry, she takes long walks, documents flowers, and reads a lot of books.
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FAQ
Why do you only use one color?
Maintaining a monochromatic color palette allows the work to construct a meditative space in a specific way. The viewer is able to infer and impose other expansive interpretations as a result of this constraint.
What sketchbooks are you using?
My father makes them for me. And he frequently makes them available for you as well. Check out the offerings page to see if any are currently on offer.
What ink do you use?
I use watercolor. That is why it responds differently. An in-depth material reflection is shared here.
What is opera Divina?
Glad you asked. I wrote a blog post about it, that you can read here. I also constructed a reflection guide that you can purchase here, if you are interested in how opera Divina might play out in your life.
Why are your artworks unframed?
Amanda Palmer writes in her book "The Art of Asking" about the inherent trust and vulnerability that happens between a performer and their audience. Leaving the artwork unframed asks the viewers to consider their role in communal responsibility. This question of trust and protection is amplified as the work frequently references environmental catastrophes or delicate relationships. (Please note I do not agree with Palmer ideologically and find it important to credit idea sources).
What are you reading?
StoryGraph has my most up-to-date list of reads. A three-star read is standard, four-star is good, and a five-star is extraordinary. Books fall into the two-star category most frequently thru poor editing (overuse of copy and paste). One-star books frequently include casually racist, xenophobia, or eugenicist viewpoints, regardless of other merits the book might have.
Do you have a podcast?
I record monthly interviews with Makoto Fujimura, which you can view on YouTube and I produced the Culture Care Podcast.
Maintaining a monochromatic color palette allows the work to construct a meditative space in a specific way. The viewer is able to infer and impose other expansive interpretations as a result of this constraint.
What sketchbooks are you using?
My father makes them for me. And he frequently makes them available for you as well. Check out the offerings page to see if any are currently on offer.
What ink do you use?
I use watercolor. That is why it responds differently. An in-depth material reflection is shared here.
What is opera Divina?
Glad you asked. I wrote a blog post about it, that you can read here. I also constructed a reflection guide that you can purchase here, if you are interested in how opera Divina might play out in your life.
Why are your artworks unframed?
Amanda Palmer writes in her book "The Art of Asking" about the inherent trust and vulnerability that happens between a performer and their audience. Leaving the artwork unframed asks the viewers to consider their role in communal responsibility. This question of trust and protection is amplified as the work frequently references environmental catastrophes or delicate relationships. (Please note I do not agree with Palmer ideologically and find it important to credit idea sources).
What are you reading?
StoryGraph has my most up-to-date list of reads. A three-star read is standard, four-star is good, and a five-star is extraordinary. Books fall into the two-star category most frequently thru poor editing (overuse of copy and paste). One-star books frequently include casually racist, xenophobia, or eugenicist viewpoints, regardless of other merits the book might have.
Do you have a podcast?
I record monthly interviews with Makoto Fujimura, which you can view on YouTube and I produced the Culture Care Podcast.