Artist Print Series 028 - Julie Alpert

The 28th in our Artist Print Series. 2023 marks the fifth year of APS and to celebrate, we've brought back our sold out artists from years past. This print is by Julie Alpert, who was a part of the 2020 APS cohort.

Julie Alpert makes exuberant site-specific installations rooted in drawing and improvisation. Her work examines the joy, confusion and contradictions of the human experience through themes like her 1980s suburban girlhood, the thrill of anticipation, the distance between our realities and expectations, routine and repetition, and the nostalgia we imbue our collectibles with. 

This 9 color screen print “Jazz Hands” is a reproduction of a colored pencil and marker drawing on graph paper from earlier this year. Julie wanted to highlight the illusion of the torn edge of the page, the overlapping forms and their shadows, and to give you something bursting with color and play.

Julie Alpert was born and raised in the Washington, DC suburbs and has lived in Tulsa since 2019. She received a BA from the University of Maryland and an MFA from the University of Washington. Some professional honors include a Pollock-Krasner Award, two MacDowell residencies, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Her work is in the collections of Facebook Seattle, Ledger Bentonville, Seattle Public Utilities and Washington State Arts Collection. She recently had an immersive installation at Crystal Bridges Museum and has an upcoming solo show at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.

View more of her work at www.juliealpert.com or follow her on instagram @julie_alpert

14x11”
Nine color screen print on French Construction Fuse Green, 100lb cover; signed and editioned by the artist on the reverse.