Julia Arvay

I am a painter/ multi-media artist currently residing in New York City. I received my Masters of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from SUNY New Paltz in May 2019.

I am interested in how decoration indicates class or social status. I experiment with positioning low art /craft into a fine art setting. I research the work of women makers and historical decorative trends to determine what crafts I can utilize as decoration. I spend time learning each craft traditionally. Then, I continue to explore and transform these materials, using them both in the way they were traditionally intended, and in ways they were not.