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Julie Kornblum always wanted to be an artist, but somehow never reached for paints and brushes. Her home was filled with fabric, needles, thread, and yarn; and she gravitated toward them. She studied fashion design at Los Angeles Trade Technical College; was a patternmaker in the garment industry; and taught sewing, design and patternmaking at Otis College. She earned her BA in Art at California State University Northridge, with a concentration in textiles. She exhibits widely and has won awards for her fiber wall pieces and sculptural basketry.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work combines the immediate and the ancient. I apply post-modern materials to the centuries-old processes of basketry weaving knitting and crochet. As a fiber artist, I follow the path of a thousand generations of artists from around the world. As a contemporary artist, I'm concerned with how our plastic trash impacts the environment. My materials are cast off, surplus, or waste: copper wire from the recycle yard; audio cassette tapes that even the thrift store wanted to throw away. Both physically and conceptually, my materials are creations of the modern age. Physically, they are by-products of industrialization. Conceptually, the notions of disposability and one-time-use are purely modern inventions. I hope to help raise the awareness that leads to reducing our production of trash.
