Artist: Julie Torres

Medium: Woven screen print, gold leaf

Size: 40" x 38" x 3"

About the Artist:

Julie Torres, born in Boise, Idaho, and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, is an Atlanta-based artist specialized in the medium of printmaking. Torres graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida in 2002 and 2005 respectively, a Master of Law from the University of Miami in 2008, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design ("SCAD") in 2016. She was recently named a 2020 Finalist for the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award out of 1,800 applicants.

Torres practiced law for seven years prior to attending SCAD. That experience is reflected in the subject matter of her work. Her artwork explores the balance between various systems: natural and artificial; societal and legal. She incorporates text from legal documents into her art counterbalanced by an aesthetic of delicacy to create an interplay between content and form.

Torres has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is in private and public collections including those of Delta Airlines, Spanx, Ritz Carlton, J.W. Marriott, Norwegian Cruise Lines and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. She most recently exhibited her work with Jennifer Balcos Gallery at Pulse Art Fair (December 2019) and with September Gray Fine Art at Art Palm Beach (February 2020).