Peter Julian, Untitled, 1981 Diptych Neo Expressionist Figures Peter Julian Oil Painting

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Peter Julian (born 1952 in Buffalo, New York) is an American artist best known for his Neo-expressionist paintings in the … Read more Peter Julian (born 1952 in Buffalo, New York) is an American artist best known for his Neo-expressionist paintings in the 1980s. His first major exhibition was in New York in 1982 at The New Museum as part of the museum’s annual “New Work/New York” series of exhibitions. THis piece is from that exhibition.
(New Work / New York. 1982; 34 pages; staple-bound; 34 pages; 44 b/w illustrations. Essays by Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin. Foreword by Marcia Tucker. Artists: Tom Butter, Tom Evans, John Fekner, Judith Hudson, Peter Julian, Cheryl Laemmle. Curated by Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin. Exhibition Catalogue.)
Lives and works between Nuits-St-Georges (Burgundy, France), New-York and Austin (Texas)

Numerous personal and collective exhibitions including:
• 2010. Drawer 158 . New York City (Group Exhibition)
• 2009. "Peter Julian, Retrospective 1980-2009". Drawer 158 . NY
• 2004. "Small works". Washington Square East Galleries . NY
• 2003. "Peter Julian, New Paintings". Solo Exhibition Dietz Gallery . New York City
• 2002. The Drawing Center. 25th Anniversary Exhibition . NY City
Peter Julian elaborates his images in the manner of arcana combining figurative and abstract motifs, thus constructing his set of figures. Influenced by the paintings of Max Beckmann, Edouard Munch, Phillip Guston and Pablo Picasso, among others, he sometimes inspires himself to escape and invent his own rebirth.

Background and education
Julian moved with his family to Dallas, Texas in 1960 and received a BFA at Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts in 1975. He moved to New York City in 1975 to work with artists Red Grooms and Mimi Gross as a member of their Ruckus Construction Company on various Ruckus projects (Ruckus Manhattan, 1975–1976; Ruckus Rodeo, 1976; various Ruckus films, 1975–1976) and then with Robert Whitman from 1976 through 1979 on various Robert Whitman performances and installations.

In 1980 he participated in the seminal exhibition “The Times Square Show” in New York and by 1982 was showing his work in exhibitions internationally.

Other media
Julian has also worked extensively with various printmaking techniques since 1982 (lithography, woodcut, intaglio, pochoir, silkscreen and monotype). His first published print was included in the “American Artist as Printmaker” biennial exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1982 and in the Landfall Press retrospective: “Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking” in 1996 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Since 2002 he has been producing large- and small-scale sculpture in various media: ceramic, bronze and multi-media.


References
Tully, Judd, Ruckus Manhattan, New York, Brazillier, 1977.
Gumpert, Lynn. Catalog essay for The New Museum exhibition: “New Work/New York”, January 1982
Tucker, Marcia. “An Iconography of Recent Figurative Painting: Sex, Death, Violence and the Apocalypse”. Artforum. Summer 1982.
Walker, Barry. Catalog essay for Brooklyn Museum Print Biennial: “The American Artist as Printmaker”. November 1983.
Jacobs, Karrie; Heller, Stephen. Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era. 1992.
Ruzicka, Joseph. Catalog essay for exhibition: “Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking.” Milwaukee Art Museum. September 1996. See less