JULIE CREWS

Julie Crews is an oil painter. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and received her Associate of Arts from Brigham Young University- Idaho. She moved to northern Louisiana in 2008 and lives in Ruston with her husband and five children.

 

She paints what takes her out of the studio: the life it takes to nurture a family. When she is in the studio she escapes domestic tethers. Yet, on canvas, there remains before her the scenes of her life: dishes stacked by the sink, shopping in second hand stores, and travelling the roads in and around town. How areas of the home are treated, the traffic and landscapes encountered while running errands, and the moods of people engaged in banal tasks influence her life, and therefore, art. Recreating these scenes give permanence to the undervalued.