JULIANNA JOOS is
a Canadian artist from Montréal. Her professional carreer started more
than thirty years ago; she has had numerous solo exhibitions and has participated
in over one hundred group shows around the world. Her most recent show was a
multidisciplinary show around a metaphore, the knot – Nœud - , it
was held at the Warren G. Flowers Gallery in Montréal.
Her production has evolved from a thirty year printmaking concentration to a
multidisciplinary production involving printmaking, computer assisted weaving,
digital imaging, and sewing. Her themes explore a range of cultural experiences
of human proportion : communication, language, memory, sensuality, life
and death and crisis. She uses mediums that are closely linked to the questions
she addresses; in her work the process contributes to the message. She is as
comfortable in traditionnal processes like printmaking - etching, woodcut,
silkscreen – and fibres – sewing, knitting, embroidery, embellishment
– as she is in digital technologies – digital imaging, computer
derived printmaking and computer assisted weaving-.
Julianna Joos has degrees from Concordia and Université du Québec
à Montréal, at the BA and the Masters levels. She has always been
very much involved in the artistic community – teaching, coordinating
an open studio, curating shows, sitting on committees -. She presently teaches
at Dawson College (Montreal) in the Fine Arts Department.