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Additional Artworks

From FPAC Exhibitions & Arts Lending Program

  1. Bright Vp by Carlyn M. Ekstrom, Image 1.

    Carlyn M. Ekstrom

    Bright Vp, 2020

    Acrylic on paper

    28 x 39 in (71.12 x 99.06 cm)

  2. Bright VI by Carlyn M. Ekstrom, Image 1.

    Carlyn M. Ekstrom

    Bright VI, 2019

    Acylic on canvas

    40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

  3. Broken Heart, Image 1.

    Broken Heart, c. 2019

    Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas

    48 x 24 x 1 in (121.92 x 60.96 x 2.54 cm)

  4. Brighton BeBop 2 by Pamela Reynolds, Image 1.

    Pamela Reynolds

    Brighton BeBop 2, c. 2016

    acrylic on panel

    20 x 20 x 2 in (50.8 x 50.8 x 5.08 cm)

  5. Brighton BeBop 1 by Pamela Reynolds, Image 1.

    Pamela Reynolds

    Brighton BeBop 1, c. 2016

    acrylic on panel

    20 x 20 x 2 in (50.8 x 50.8 x 5.08 cm)

  6. Broken Ice on the Shore, Blue by Lisa Goren, Image 1.

    Lisa Goren

    Broken Ice on the Shore, Blue

    Watercolor

    24 x 24 in (60.96 x 60.96 cm)

  7. Broken Ice on the Shore by Lisa Goren, Image 1.

    Lisa Goren

    Broken Ice on the Shore

    Watercolor

    24 x 24 in (60.96 x 60.96 cm)

  8. Briny Retreat #3 by Walter Baranowski, Image 1.

    Walter Baranowski

    Briny Retreat #3

    Oil on Canvas

    24 x 24 in (60.96 x 60.96 cm)

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About the artist

Julie C Baer

US

I have painted for over 40 years. I have struggled with lifelong PTSD, chronic pain, and depression due to childhood trauma, and artmaking saved my life, providing a discipline, calling, and identity. Making art is a recursive, developmental practice of solving problems, creating order, discovering the “adjacent possible.” My pain informs my empathy and deepens my sensitivity as an artist and naturalist. I studied for the first two years of college at Rhode Island School of Design, graduating from the New School for Social Research in NYC, after which I painted and exhibited full-time. In 2007, however, depression forced me to take a break from making art. I needed a change, so I attended graduate school for education, earning a master’s from Harvard and doctorate from Northeastern University. For 15 years, I taught writing to students of all ages and backgrounds in higher ed, workforce development, and community-based programs. The pandemic unexpectedly brought me back to making art. Art can spark insight, stir hearts, and stimulate freshness and hope. I want my work to inspire viewers to care for themselves and their biomes. My gallery is Atlantic Works Gallery in Boston, MA. View my work at https://www.juliebaer.com/

I am an artist member of Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, MA. View my work at https://www.juliebaer.com/

or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jcbaer_natureart/

Selected exhibitions: Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA, New Members’ Show; Bengal Bridge Boston; Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA; Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, City of Boston; International Exhibition on Animals in Art, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine Library, Baton Rouge, LA; Roots: New Growth, Caroline S. Mark Gallery, Wausau, WI; 5th Animal, Art Show International Gallery Online, Talent Award; All Botanical 2022, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, First Place award; Women in Art, Las Lagunas Art Gallery, CA; On the Wing, Kavanagh Gallery, St. Charles, IL; Confluence, solo exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts Cafe, Somerville MA; San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center; Artistonish Magazine ExhibiZone; Souls, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center; Nature, Cambridge Center for Adult Education; Cambridge Health Alliance; Yeshiva University Museum, NY; Hebrew College; O’Neill Public Library, Cambridge MA; Moses Brown School, Providence, RI; Doylestown Library; Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston; Bromfield Gallery; Honan-Allston Boston Public Library; and rotating loans of artwork to corporate clients of the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.

Publications: Love Me Later, Bollix Books, 2005 and I Only Like What I Like, Bollix Books, 2003.