Digitally created, hand-woven jacquard weavings
appropriating themes found in the Vanitas of the Renaissance


Vanite Avec Globe (Vanity with Globe)
44 x 35 cm, jacquard weaving (2005)

The images presented here are from a series of twelve jacquard weavings called ''Songes d'une Vie" (My Dreams). White knots are used as a metaphor to tie the monochromatic images that represent symbols referring to the artist and her activities, to life and death, to slowness and eroticism, to power and skills, but also to things ephemeral and insignificant. The forms are esthetic while the symbols want to be forceful.


Vanite Avec Libellule (Vanity with Dragonfly)
44 x 35 cm, jacquard weaving (2005)

Fisherman's knots were used to convey stability within the confusion of destiny. A tied knot refers to a stable situation, while to undo a knot provokes either a crisis and death or a solution and freedom.


Vanite Avec Crane (Vanity with Skull)
 44 x 35 cm, jacquard weaving (2005)

In this series, a new technology is associated with a traditional medium. The weavings are jacquard weavings made in linen. Jacquard weaving has promoted weaving to new levels: the images are prepared digitally but woven manually. Pointcarré is the software that enables artists to translate into weaving structures the visual information of a Photoshop image. The artist then weaves manually this new image using a digital loom that can read the saved information; the artist can also choose the threads to enhance the project. The resulting artwork combines the qualities of traditional weaving with the possibilities of digital technology.


Vanite Avec Nautile (Vanity with Nautilus Shell)
44 x 35 cm, jacquard weaving (2005)

BIO:
 
JULIANNA JOOS is a Canadian artist from Montréal. Her professional carreer started more than thirty years ago. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in over one-hundred group shows around the world. Her most recent show was a multidisciplinary show around a metaphore, the knot (Nœud), and it was held at the Warren G. Flowers Gallery in Montréal.

Her production has evolved from a thirty-year printmaking concentration to a multidisciplinary production involving printmaking, computer assisted weaving, digital imaging, and embroidery and sewing. Her themes explore a range of cultural experiences of human proportions: communication, language, memory, sensuality, life and death and crisis. She uses mediums that are closely linked to the questions she addresses; in her work the process contributes to the message. She is as comfortable in traditionnal processes like printmaking, etching, woodcut, silkscreen, and fibres [sewing, knitting, embroidery, embellishment], as she is in the digital technologies of imaging, computer-derived printmaking, and computer-assisted weaving.

Julianna has degrees from Concordia and Université du Québec à Montréal, at the BA and the Masters levels. She presently teaches at Dawson College (Montreal) in the Fine Arts Department.

PRIZES, MENTIONS
2005 "Premio Acqui", VII Biennale Internazionale dell' Incisione, ACQUI TERME, Italy: Purchase Award Premio Consorzio Brachetto d'Aqui
2002 VOIR GRAND, Biennale d'estampe grand format de l'Atelier Circulaire, MONTRÉAL: 1st Prize
2001 Troisième biennale de la gravure de l 'Île-de-France -Gravures Canadiennes-, VERSAILLES, France : invited artist

CONTACT:
http://www.julianna.jujoos.net  
jjoos@dawsoncollege.qc.ca