Julia Muench is a multi-disciplinary, visionary artist and creator, based in Leonardo, New Jersey. She works with merging various types of sustainable fiber/fabrics, repurposed fabrics, and other earth friendly materials into her fiber art. All designs are her own.
Her hand made rug projects involve various hooking and punching techniques with mostly wool yarn and wool cut strips, and as well as cotton and other materials.
Her vibrant fiber "quilted" canvases are in three layers, some with embroidery and quilting, and with hand sewn-beading on the top layer. Some of the larger pieces take several months tor her to create. Her images reveal a lifelong interest in the exploration and understanding of world cultures, music, dance and organic forms in nature. Julia’s work reveals an abstract and sometimes surreal esthetic sense; starting with basic geometric and organic forms, and then breaking out of traditional, building into new structures.
Julia grew up in Miami, Florida, and with the influence of her mother, Deborah Winter, an artist in her own right, and father Karl Muench, a renowned scientist.
Julia decided to study music and received her Master’s degree in Music from the University of Miami School of Music. Julia’s initial fascination in geometric esthetics started with her career in music and composition, and then manifested into her art quilts going back to 2006. Since that time, she continues to develop her own designs.
Julia is an experienced artist, performer, musician, composer, and educator, has won achievement awards for her quilts, music performance, teaching, and sound compositions. She has also studied and performed and choreographed various dance forms such as flamenco, and worked in film and photography.
Born in California, with early childhood into adulthood, in Miami Florida, she now resides in New Jersey for the past 25+ years.
Julia’s original design constructions are inspired by nature. Each creation emerges in the medium of various fabrics pieced together through sewing. Julia chooses specific fabrics as one would choose exact colors and textures for a painting. She incorporates some chosen fabrics to create atmospheres, and other fabric prints to work in contrast to each other and against the geometrical shapes they are cut into. As observed in her work in musical composition, she sees the background as crucially important to the foreground and piece as a whole. A background needs to enhance the solo object(s) in the overall composition.
Her art pieces may be hung on a wall or rolled for easy transport.
Philosophy:
We learn more about our creativity through the understanding of all Arts: Music, Dance, Film, Drama etc.
