Julia Rommel

Julia Rommel is an American painter. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum.

• Long Leash, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA, 2020^{[1][better source needed]}
• Fall Guy, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway, 2019
• Candy Jail, Bureau, New York, 2019
• Twin Bed, Bureau at Tanya Leighton, 2018
• A Cheesecake with Your Name on It, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA, 2016
• Two Italians, Six Lifeguards, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, November 2015 – April 2016 (curated by Amy Smith-Stewart)^[2]

Julia Rommel is an American abstract painter.^[3][4] Her early paintings were typically monochromes of blacks and muted colors.^[5] Rommel make paintings of various sizes with cool to warm color palettes of blues, greys, reds and bright citrus hues.^[6] She makes her paintings using a construction and deconstruction process.^[7][8] Rommel’s laborious process of painting includes cutting and sanding the canvas, and wiping away and adding layers of paint.^[6][9] Her working method stresses the canvas surfaces with physical manipulation, and admits frayed edges and staple holes.^[6][9] Rommel allows imperfection in her painting which gives her work a handmade aesthetic.^[10] “Whenever I approach what looks like an existing modernist painting, I know I have to change something,” says Rommel in an interview with Art in America, “I try to mess up the painting to prevent a fixed reading that reflects an established tradition.”^[11]

Among the museums holding her work are: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.^[12][13][14]

• Julia Rommel, texts by Rebecca Bengal and Julia Rommel, edited by Arno Baudin and Julia Rommel, Zolo Press, 2021, 288 pages, 235 × 305 mm, 800 copies, printed in Belgium.^[15]

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