This is an original abstract painting by Julia Contacessi. It features a muted violet, grey, and white palette with a metallic gold accent, and layers of acrylic wash to create a beautiful movement.
This painting measures 60″ x 48″ on gallery wrapped canvas. It was created in 2022, using acrylic paint on canvas. It is signed and dated on the back of the canvas, and is wired to hang vertically or horizontally, depending on preference.
In 2000, Julia earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in New York City. Over the years, her eye for composition coupled with her love of painting, design and photography has earned Julia numerous awards in such publications as Photographer’s Forum and Creativity along with inclusion into the Yale Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections(ALSC) in New Haven, CT.
Julia never strayed far from texture, paint and the mixing and layering of mediums, which are important components to Julia’s work. In fact, Julia’s most recent abstracts focus on deconstructing painted color palette studies through isolated images, and then rebuilding those studies with new form and composition.
About her work, Julia says, “When you layer on the paint just right, so that it dances across a wash of another color, a new level of dimension is created. Combine that dimension with the exploration of color and I’ve just begun to captured something meaningful. My style is single-minded and focused on the simplicity of beauty in the moment. My goal is to drown out the noise and clutter to find a sense of calm through light. The end result is clean, fresh and modern.”
