About Juliana Coles

Attending Art School in San Francisco during the late 80’s early 90’s, my education was influenced by the Post-Modern Bay Area Figuration artists and the New Contemporary Figurative Movement. My work was inspired by German and Neo Expressionists as well as the Pop Artists who were revolting against pretentious or “High Brow” Art. While the city was a mecca of social activism, I became intensely engaged with the second wave feminist ideal that the personal is the political. As an Epileptic, my art is an authentic and raw investigative expression of personal reality through a spontaneous layering technique that combines the figure with hand written narrative. Each layer is a fragment that leads to another fragment that eventually creates a compelling and provocative whole.  These mixed media paintings and drawings are an attempt to create order and archive a fragmented past through the radical historical and ordinary social events of my time.