House Fire, video, 2015
Julie Libersat
Julie Libersat was born in Kerala, India and grew up in Philadelphia PA. She received her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. Libersat has exhibited in the US and abroad including shows at the Dallas Contemporary Museum, School 33 in Baltimore, and The Center for Art and Culture in France. Her work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and Sculpture Magazine online. She is a recipient of an individual artist grant from the Maryland State Arts Council as well as the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas CADD FUNd. She lived abroad for seven years based in India, traveling between Asia, Europe and the US. She spent five years in India teaching art and has lived in Oslo, Norway. She is currently pursuing an MA in Art Education and an MFA in New Media from the University of North Texas.
Artist Statement
Through the concepts of home, travel, and the language of interiors, I explore the human relationship with the built environment. We anthropomorphize spaces, clothing them in wallpaper, moldings, curtains and flooring surfaces. We manipulate and decorate space to communicate identity, status and control our interactions with architecture. My work plays with the theatricality of the built environments we create for public presentation versus the private interiors we create for ourselves.
I explore the layers of cultural and personal meaning that shape our relationship with and behavior within the man-made landscape. Through architectural interventions, installations and interactive projects, I investigate our embodied perception of space: its lived, perceived and conceived experience. Buildings and places are occupied in memory, dreams and imagination. We construct spatial meaning collectively; our cities, neighborhoods and buildings reflect our personal, cultural and political histories and imaginaries.
I am experimenting with the possibilities for aesthetic experience through navigation, narrative cartography and controlled disorientation. Getting lost allows us to see our surroundings with fresh eyes, challenges us to connect with the unfamiliar and has the power to transform our perception of our communities, spaces, and selves.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2016 MFA (pending) University of North Texas, Denton, TX (expected May 2016)
2016 MA (pending) Studies in Art Education, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2003 BFA cum-laude, Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Professional Experience
2015 Instructor of Record, Drawing II, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014 - 2015 Instructor of Record, Computers in Art, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014 Teaching Assistant, Drawing II, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Lead Teacher, Grandparents University, University of North Texas, Denton,TX
2013 - 2015 Area Assistant, New Media, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2009 - 2011 Senior Designer, Falken Europe, Oslo, Norway
2005 -2009 Art Instructor, Sri Atmananda Memorial School, Kerala, India
Awards/ Grants/ Fellowships
2014 CADD FUNd Grant Recipient, CADD Dallas, TX
CVAD Travel Award Fund, University of North Texas
Toulouse Graduate School Travel Award, University of North Texas
2014-2015 Mozelle Rawson-Brown Scholarship in Visual Arts, University of North Texas
Graduate Assistantship Tuition Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013-2014 Onstead Masters Fellowship, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2005 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant - Installation
2002-2003 Morris Lewis Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 Studio Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
2000 Painting Residency, Maryland Institute College of Art, Bay of Fundy, Canada
2000 Emmanuel Herman Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art
1999 Moore College of Art Book Award, Springside School, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions
2015 You Are Here, Ann Streeet Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Nanogalactic, Merril Ellis Intermedia Theater, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
STEM City Arts, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
Juried Expo, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Wall-to-Wall, The Panhandle House, Denton, TX
Metropolis Familiaris, Prairie Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL
Student New Media Exhibition, Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, TX
Form_Plus_Data.exe, North Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Accredit This, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013 Home Inventions, 9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2010 Alt Overalt, Akerhus Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2005 -2009 Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography, Artscape, Baltimore, MD (2005) Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC (2005), Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL (2005), M-80 Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2006), Workhorse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2006), Cooper Union, New York, NY (2007).
2005 Feels Heavy, Floristree Space, Baltimore MD
Burning Down the House, Public Art Installation, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Baltimore MD
2004 Inside Out and Half, School 33 Art Center Installation Gallery, Baltimore MD
Building Alteration Project, Public Art Installation, Mildred Monroe Elementary Baltimore, MD
Show #4, Dog Couch Gallery, Baltimore MD
2003 Model Home, M&T Bank Pavillion, Artscape, Baltimore MD
BFA Thesis Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
Door and Window Project, Station North Arts District, Baltimore, MD
Ten Page Book, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore MD
2002 L’Arte, Centre Pour L’Art et Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France
Lectures/ Presentations/ Workshops
2015 “Walking and Mapping as Art Practice: Emergent Cartography and Spatial Exchange,” Technology Research Group, Lead Author with Dr. Adetty Pérez de Miles, National Art Education Association Conference (NAEA), New Orleans, LA, March 26, 2015.
2014 “3D Recycled Constructions,” Lead Teacher, Grandparents University, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, June 20, 2014.
Publications
2015 “ROAM: Walking, Mapping, Play, and Pedagogical Wanderings in Art and Art Education,” In Review, Co-Author Adetty Pérez de Miles, Studies in Art Education.
Julie Libersat was born in Kerala, India and grew up in Philadelphia PA. She received her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. Libersat has exhibited in the US and abroad including shows at the Dallas Contemporary Museum, School 33 in Baltimore, and The Center for Art and Culture in France. Her work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and Sculpture Magazine online. She is a recipient of an individual artist grant from the Maryland State Arts Council as well as the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas CADD FUNd. She lived abroad for seven years based in India, traveling between Asia, Europe and the US. She spent five years in India teaching art and has lived in Oslo, Norway. She is currently pursuing an MA in Art Education and an MFA in New Media from the University of North Texas.
Artist Statement
Through the concepts of home, travel, and the language of interiors, I explore the human relationship with the built environment. We anthropomorphize spaces, clothing them in wallpaper, moldings, curtains and flooring surfaces. We manipulate and decorate space to communicate identity, status and control our interactions with architecture. My work plays with the theatricality of the built environments we create for public presentation versus the private interiors we create for ourselves.
I explore the layers of cultural and personal meaning that shape our relationship with and behavior within the man-made landscape. Through architectural interventions, installations and interactive projects, I investigate our embodied perception of space: its lived, perceived and conceived experience. Buildings and places are occupied in memory, dreams and imagination. We construct spatial meaning collectively; our cities, neighborhoods and buildings reflect our personal, cultural and political histories and imaginaries.
I am experimenting with the possibilities for aesthetic experience through navigation, narrative cartography and controlled disorientation. Getting lost allows us to see our surroundings with fresh eyes, challenges us to connect with the unfamiliar and has the power to transform our perception of our communities, spaces, and selves.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2016 MFA (pending) University of North Texas, Denton, TX (expected May 2016)
2016 MA (pending) Studies in Art Education, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2003 BFA cum-laude, Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Professional Experience
2015 Instructor of Record, Drawing II, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014 - 2015 Instructor of Record, Computers in Art, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014 Teaching Assistant, Drawing II, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Lead Teacher, Grandparents University, University of North Texas, Denton,TX
2013 - 2015 Area Assistant, New Media, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2009 - 2011 Senior Designer, Falken Europe, Oslo, Norway
2005 -2009 Art Instructor, Sri Atmananda Memorial School, Kerala, India
Awards/ Grants/ Fellowships
2014 CADD FUNd Grant Recipient, CADD Dallas, TX
CVAD Travel Award Fund, University of North Texas
Toulouse Graduate School Travel Award, University of North Texas
2014-2015 Mozelle Rawson-Brown Scholarship in Visual Arts, University of North Texas
Graduate Assistantship Tuition Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013-2014 Onstead Masters Fellowship, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2005 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant - Installation
2002-2003 Morris Lewis Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 Studio Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
2000 Painting Residency, Maryland Institute College of Art, Bay of Fundy, Canada
2000 Emmanuel Herman Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art
1999 Moore College of Art Book Award, Springside School, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions
2015 You Are Here, Ann Streeet Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Nanogalactic, Merril Ellis Intermedia Theater, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
STEM City Arts, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
Juried Expo, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Wall-to-Wall, The Panhandle House, Denton, TX
Metropolis Familiaris, Prairie Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL
Student New Media Exhibition, Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, TX
Form_Plus_Data.exe, North Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Accredit This, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013 Home Inventions, 9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2010 Alt Overalt, Akerhus Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2005 -2009 Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography, Artscape, Baltimore, MD (2005) Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC (2005), Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL (2005), M-80 Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2006), Workhorse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2006), Cooper Union, New York, NY (2007).
2005 Feels Heavy, Floristree Space, Baltimore MD
Burning Down the House, Public Art Installation, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Baltimore MD
2004 Inside Out and Half, School 33 Art Center Installation Gallery, Baltimore MD
Building Alteration Project, Public Art Installation, Mildred Monroe Elementary Baltimore, MD
Show #4, Dog Couch Gallery, Baltimore MD
2003 Model Home, M&T Bank Pavillion, Artscape, Baltimore MD
BFA Thesis Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
Door and Window Project, Station North Arts District, Baltimore, MD
Ten Page Book, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore MD
2002 L’Arte, Centre Pour L’Art et Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France
Lectures/ Presentations/ Workshops
2015 “Walking and Mapping as Art Practice: Emergent Cartography and Spatial Exchange,” Technology Research Group, Lead Author with Dr. Adetty Pérez de Miles, National Art Education Association Conference (NAEA), New Orleans, LA, March 26, 2015.
2014 “3D Recycled Constructions,” Lead Teacher, Grandparents University, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, June 20, 2014.
Publications
2015 “ROAM: Walking, Mapping, Play, and Pedagogical Wanderings in Art and Art Education,” In Review, Co-Author Adetty Pérez de Miles, Studies in Art Education.
