Julie Moon
Julie Moon is a Toronto based ceramic artist. She received her BFA from OCADU in Toronto in 2005 and received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2010. Since completing her studies, Julie has participated in numerous artist residency programs including The Ceramic Art Center in Berlin, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Archie Bray Foundation and a four year residency at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. She has exhibited widely across the US and Canada, venues include the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, MASS Gallery in Austin, Texas, ART Toronto, The Philadelphia Art Fair, Society for Contemporary Craft and the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN. She is represented in Canada by Birch Contemporary in Toronto.
Artist Statement
I tend to think of my process in two parts where forms are a built canvas for surface design. Beyond wanting to extend the process of making, decoration is a way for me to expand on and individuate work, allowing me to explore multiple ideas about a single object. The work I plan to share during my presentation plays with lines on a surface. By blending coils of clay onto the outside of closed, sculptural forms, a three-dimensional line becomes a shallow wall and starts to blur boundaries between form and decoration. This method of building and expanding objects, allows me to alter the space they occupy beyond the volume which they contain.
