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From FPAC Exhibitions & Arts Lending Program

  1. Shelf Life by Renee Silva, Image 1.

    Renee Silva

    Shelf Life, 2020

    Oil on canvas, Stretched over Wood Panel

    36 x 60 in (91.44 x 152.4 cm)

  2. Sharp Grey Line Abstract by Jose Santos, Image 1.

    Jose Santos

    Sharp Grey Line Abstract, 2019

    acrylic on canvas

    52 x 48 x 2 in (132.08 x 121.92 x 5.08 cm)

  3. Sheep #7 by Carolyn Letvin, Image 1.

    Carolyn Letvin

    Sheep #7, 2003

    Oil paint monotype

    19 x 24 in (48.26 x 60.96 cm)

  4. Sheep by Steven Edson, Image 2.

    Steven Edson

    Sheep, c. 1987

    Archival pigment print

    20 x 30 x 0.1 in (50.8 x 76.2 x 0.25 cm)

  5. Shaping Myself: No.2. Pressed by Leon Llovely, Image 1.

    Leon Llovely

    Shaping Myself: No.2. Pressed

    acrylic on canvas

    24 x 18 in (60.96 x 45.72 cm)

  6. Shaping Myself: No.6. Mostly empty space by Leon Llovely, Image 1.

    Leon Llovely

    Shaping Myself: No.6. Mostly empty space

    acrylic on canvas

    12 x 16 in (30.48 x 40.64 cm)

  7. Shaping myself: No.2. Playdate by Leon Llovely, Image 1.

    Leon Llovely

    Shaping myself: No.2. Playdate

    acrylic on canvas

    16 x 12 in (40.64 x 30.48 cm)

  8. Shaping Myself: No.4. Scars you can’t see by Leon Llovely, Image 1.

    Leon Llovely

    Shaping Myself: No.4. Scars you can’t see

    acrylic on canvas

    24 x 18 in (60.96 x 45.72 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.