About

Julia Schrecengost was born in Connecticut in 1996. She received her degree in fine arts at Oberlin College in 2018. After college, she participated in a printmaking internship at Women’s Studio Workshop in Kingston, NY, culminating in an exhibition with her four fellow interns. She taught printmaking to high school and middle school students through their Art in Education program. She has since shown work in galleries in Connecticut, New York, St. Louis, Mexico City, Baltimore, and Frederick, Maryland. In 2019, she completed a residency program and exhibition at Casa Lu in Mexico City. In 2021, she was accepted into NOMA Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Frederick, as their youngest member. Julia had her first solo exhibit entitled “Knots” at NOMA Gallery in September 2024. In December 2024, she moved to Mexico City, where she currently lives.

Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist whose work combines several forms of printmaking to create unique textural prints. I explore the relationship between the internal processes of my own body and organic processes in  constant motion. Physical objects such as netting, branches and leaves reference connective tissue and joints, the parts of my body that do not function normally due to a joint disorder and arthritis. Pain becomes something evocative of universal feelings and experiences, inviting the viewer to feel, whether or not that feeling is comfortable. Spontaneous in nature, the finished work reflects a particular moment in my own life.