Julie Nellenback Henry

Green on Green, 2021

Antique bed linens, Canvas, Acrylic and Flashe on Canvas

18 x 14 inches

Courtesy of the artist

www.juliehenrystudio.com, @juliehenrystudio

Julie Nellenback Henry is a mixed media artist who creates abstract paintings, textile collage works and assemblage constructions using the strategies of layering, fragmentation and reduction. In her work, she blurs the relationships between architecture, landscape and the body. Henry's mother was a design student at RIT in the 1960's and her grandfather was a typewriter engineer for Smith Corona. She credits them both for her love of design and for teaching her to see the intrinsic value of a handmade aesthetic. "As a young person I was surrounded by people who were steeped in the values of the Arts and Crafts movement and who understood how a particular type of beauty emerges from a work ethic of discipline, diligence and frugality. Commitment to craft was revered and those who made things by hand garnered respect. Today when I go to create, I reach into those roots and let the materials themselves call forth involuntary memories and recollections of childhood influences." JNH Born in New York state in 1968, Henry's family moved to the south when she was very young. Today she lives and works in Atlanta, where she has a devoted studio practice with a focus on creating paintings and objects that illustrate the symbiotic relationship between craft and concept.