“For me, art is illuminating, healing and necessary. I love creating and merging with color and form, revealing new esthetics. I have always believed in the art process as a certain way to help us focus on something beyond, and maybe see what can actually be possible. In my work, I hope is to emerge with an outcome that moves and awakens others. I have a passion and concern for the environment, starting with our world’s magnificent oceans. I believe this reveals itself in some of my work.” ~Julia Muench
Fiber Art, Photo Credit: McKay Imaging
Eclectic Current is an oceanic surreal scene of waves gracefully reaching to the stars. In the making of this fiber art piece, I was inspired by the state of our local beach environment, in Monmouth County, and a poetic verse a friend introduced me to from Virgil’s Aeneid. Eclectic Current was recently featured live, in my solo show “In-Spiraled” at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County, in July of 2021. The detailed surface work is top stitch embroidery, appliqué, and hand beading in this fiber art piece.
Chromatic Warrior
In this new ( unexhibited so far) piece, Chromatic Warrior, 46×67″ , I started out as a challenge to myself, to create something more abstract, incorporating the full spectrum of color. During this experimental process, and to my own surprise, a fish-like form emerged.
Wondering Wheel Life is a dance between questions and answers, yet where is the balance between these two states? Is one trapped within a particular wheel until they move out of it? I created Wondering Wheel during the Spring of 2020, as a reflection of the “merry -go-round” sort of existence, that I, and many of us were living in at the time, and are yet experiencing. Viewers may be drawn to this piece due to its dreamy and surreal subject matter, maybe “wondering”, because of the arrangement of the colors and the spectacle of a “Ferris” wheel. Who are the people flying out of the wheel in the upper right-hand corner? Are they happy? Are they feeling free? As juxtaposition to the upheaval, I chose specific colors longing for the palette of spring, to focus on, and infuse into my own consciousness. It takes me at least 3 months to create a piece of this size, from a variety of cotton fabrics and thread. Sometimes I incorporate sewn in glass beads to enhance the design.
About Julia Muench and Her Fiber Art: Julia recently gave her first solo art exhibit “In-Spiraled” in 2021, held at Art Alliance in July of 2021 in Red Bank, New Jersey. Some of Julia’s artwork currently on exhibit in northeastern galleries, include: upcoming in June 2021 for the national show, Far and Wide in Woodstock, New York: her “Aquarian Dawn”. To view more of Julia’s work, you can go to: https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/julia-muench Julia’s fiber art reveals an abstract and surreal esthetic, based on some geometric and organic forms. Once she establishes a form, she may break out into the building of a new structure. Julia feels her fiber art does not fit into any one specific category.
