Jessica Jane Julius

Between Now and Now

November 1 - November 30, 2019

This November, Grizzly Grizzly presents Between Now and Now, a solo exhibition by Philadelphia based artist Jessica Jane Julius. Julius uses glass and other materials to create installations, photography, and drawings. Her work questions morphological classifications and addresses ideas around transformation, perspective, and materiality. 

In Between Now and Now, Julius will transform the gallery with her large-scale installation created primarily from millions of tiny glass reflector spheres, traditionally manufactured for use in highway markings. These spheres shine brightly when exposed to light in an otherwise dark environment, creating a luminous effect. Julius’s installation visualizes the notion of complex systems and networks that exist in the world around us. Assembled from a large number of smaller parts, these systems represent the organization achieved in the face of our never-ending drive towards disorganization and chaos. These tangled, reticular structures create an impenetrable dreamscape scenario invoking the passing of time or the erosion of memory.  This is the space where we pause and listen.

Artist Bio

Jessica Jane Julius has been dedicated to the arts for more than fifteen years as an artist, educator, collaborator, and performer. She exhibits large scale installations, objects, and imagery that reflect on the current "culture of fear" in our society, making work that evaluates where fear is manifested and where it is cultivated. She is the co-founder of the artists’ collective and performance group The Burnt Asphalt Family, which produces collaborative participatory works. They have performed at prestigious venues across the country including The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass, The Chrysler Museum, and Urban Glass. Her mixed media works have been exhibited nationally including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of American Glass, NJ, and Pilchuck Gallery in Seattle, Washington. Her work has been selected numerous times for publication in New Glass Review, and she has been awarded residencies at The Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, New Jersey, and The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. She is on the board of the Glass Arts Society and was recently appointed to the Executive Committee as the Vice President. She served as Interim Program Head of Glass at Tyler School of Art and University of the Arts, and has taught at RIT, Pilchuck Glass School, Urban Glass, and The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass. She earned her BFA in Glass at Tyler School of Art and her MFA in Glass at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Glass at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son.