Julie Waas · Winner Collectors Art Prize
Julie Reby Waas has been creating abstract drawings for as long as she can remember. It was only during the isolating, stressful time of the Covid pandemic, however, that she began turning her original designs into artwork. She felt a desire to bring joy into her life and the lives of others through creative expression, using bright acrylics & watercolors to create compelling patterns to stimulate the viewer’s spontaneous reaction to each one of her pieces.
Her geometric shapes and patterns serve as a way to bring order to her sometimes disordered life, and Ms. Waas identifies three recurring symbols in her work: vines, Venn diagrams, and jigsaw puzzle-like designs. To Ms. Waas, these symbols represent friendship, connection, common ground, and fragments coming together to create a bigger picture, which all relate to her belief that everything and everyone is interrelated in some way, and when we come together in friendship and strength we create a beautiful tapestry.
Ms. Waas is a resident of Miami, Florida. In addition to creating art, she also is a labor and employment lawyer and a Certified High Performance Coach for midlife & empty nester women. She exhibits work in galleries in New York, London, Madrid, Marbella, Innsbruck and Miami, and is influenced by other geometrically-inclined predecessors like Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró. Her style is certainly her own flavor of bold and unique, successfully achieving her goal of bringing happiness and enthusiasm to each one of her viewers.
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Jigsaw, 2022, Acrylic & Watercolor on Paper, 35.36 x 43.18
Venn on the Vine, 2021, Watercolor & Acrylic on Paper, 44.45 x 36.2
Night Vision, 2024, Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, 63.5 x 63.5
Intersection, 2023, Acrylic & Watercolor on Paper, 44.45 x 44.45
Jigsaw, 2022, Acrylic & Watercolor on Paper, 35.36 x 43.18
