Weitz, Julie
Julie Weitz
American, (born 1979-)
About the Artist
Los Angeles-based artist Julie Weitz is interested in issues of self-representation and identification. For this series of paintings Weitz began with a literal attempt to accurately represent a portrait of an individual hidden from view. While searching through source material she discovered the metaphorical potential of these images of masked people to represent the strong desire to understand what is hidden from view. Weitz acknowledges the various associations of the masked figure, both menacing and mysterious, and embraces the image as a symbol of the fear of what we don't know or understand. Using this very loaded and potentially controversial image, Weitz hopes to provoke pertinent and difficult questions of designating identity.
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