Julie Schenkelberg

Exhibited at Expo Chicago 2018 with Asya Geisberg Gallery

Wishing Well, 2018 Furniture, fabric, hydrocal cast, ash

44h x 40w x 45.50d in
111.76h x 101.60w x 115.57d cm

The mixed-media installations uses furniture, dish-ware, textiles, and marble, combined with concrete, resin, and construction materials, to transform notions of domesticity, and engage with the Mid-West’s Rust Belt's legacy of abandonment and decay. The installation "Wishing Well” is comprised of mid-century furniture, personal heirlooms, materials from abandoned homes in Michigan, and casts of Madonna figures and Dutch Boys. Using locally sourced materials, the piece references Gothic architecture and Roman ruins like the temple of Jupiter, a space remade into a Christian church, reinterpreted, reinvented, and appropriated. Fabric waterfalls and ash from Michigan buildings as well as crystal shapes suggest transformation, rebirth, and spiritual journeys.

2018 , mixed media, 78”x45”x30." 

Solo show at Asya Geisberg Gallery.

The installation is a sarcophagus imagined to be for the artist,  to travel into the next world with precious cast items of her family's possessions and rubble from destroyed buildings in the region she was born (Detroit/Cleveland- the Mid-West). The blue wax pieces are cast family heirlooms from the artist's family, plates and an altered figure of the virgin Mary derived from the catholic faith. The exterior of the piece is covered in cast and silver leafed hyrdocal-plaster spoons from the artists great-grandfather. The interior of the installation has broken carrera marble, burned wood from destroyed homes, glass from abandoned auto factories and found metal from factory floors. 

2017, mixed media,  176" x 86" x 157".

Constructed during the residency at The Red Bull House of Art in Detroit. 

The installation is composed of a taxidermy fawn, found objects, burnt house wood, Hydrocal plaster casts of artist‘s family personal items. Jewelry, dishware, silverware, paraffin wax castings, books, marble from demolished buildings, cast and real 1917 vintage ceiling tiles, wood lath from demolished convent, cotton fabric,  gold and silver leaf, mirrors, waxed paper, shredded and grated tires, wax cast windows, figurines and cups, chair with fabric strips dipped in wax, small table with cast wax items. 

2017, mixed media.

Installation at Plug Projects in Kansas City.

The installation at PLUG Projects partnered with the Kansas City, Missouri Office of Culture and Creative Services and the Kansas City Design Center as part of the “West Bottoms Reborn,” a project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant. This project is part of a series of public engagements designed to honor the history (and place) of the historic West Bottoms in Kansas City, Mo. Incorporating materials from the region as a representation and indicator of site, the artist responded to the West Bottoms’ rich history by building a site-specific installation with materials form the region, in the gallery of PLUG Projects. 

2017, mixed media.

Installation at Projekstrom Normanns Gallery, Stravanger, Norway.

Built with natural materials found in the region, stone, sand, sea water, soil and branches. Covered in concrete and filtered lighting. 

2015, mixed media.

This Installation was exhibited at UNTITLED Miami 2015 as a special project through the curatorial group SiTE:LAB.

Lumerian Shift is constructed with materials accumulated over years from home demolition and scrapyards. Vintage molding, porch ceilings, chairs, lathe, barrel parts, vintage boat sails,  folded painted fabric bundles, carrara marble, plaster cast vintage punch cups, scrap metal from cars, industrial waste, and painted bed springs.

2012, mixed media, 35’ x 40’ x 25’.

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: The Okada Building

This installation was a site specific work completed in the Okada Building at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska. The installation is made of vintage lamps, wooden furniture, wood paneling, fabric, paint, plaster, resin, metal wire, and string.

Site specific installation was completed at the Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts during a 2012 residency. Materials where gathered from Omaha home renivations and other locations.

Split Time 2012, 240"Lx 180"Wx 84"H materials: cut door, acrylic medium, plaster, carrera marble, tape, window panes, fiber-glass. 

The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2015

A link to the museum and more detail images of the show are here.

Swan Song, 2015 Solo show at Asya Geisberg Gallery

Detail of this show can be seen here at Asya Geisberg Gallery
 

Site specific installation made with reclaimed lath, wood, marble, iron, paper, vintage furniture, dish-ware, figurines, natural debris, crushed reclaimed metal, light fixtures, vintage wedding dresses, bathtub, wallpaper, plaster, paint. Dimensions variable.

 Symptomatic Constant (Shipwreck in the Mid-West) mixed media, 20'x 30' x 19', 2014.

Detail of this project can be seen here with the curatorial group SiTE:LAB

“Symptomatic Constant” is my representation of a shipwreck in the Midwest. This installation was produced for Art Prize with the curatorial group SiTE:LAB. 

The environment is a former 1920’s hotel lobby in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that was sealed for 40 years. It was created for Art Prize and won the Juried Installation Award for $20,000. It is filled with items locally sourced from the area, including retired sails from a Lake Michigan boat and local scrap yard materials. The piece touches on the twisting turmoil of objects and domestic places in upheaval. The installation emerges from its firm grounding of earth and envisioned water, reaching toward the tranquil place in the sky beyond the storm.

Installation for solo show at Asya Geisberg Gallery 2013

details for this show can be seen here at Asya Geisberg Gallery

Hearsay,  89" x 58" x 92", 2013:

This is the front side view of the installation. This view is made of these materials selected discarded materials from the streets of NYC: Dining room table, staircase spindles, exterior doors, newel post, bureau parts, church bench, cabinet doors, end table, cast furniture remnants, vintage 1940's glass lens, resin, wool, window frames, concrete, cattle fencing wire, black velvet, marble, rusted steel roof tar, aluminum, yarn, gold mica powder and shellac, silk and resin

The Unfounded Future of the Untold

SiTE: LAB, Art Prize 2013 : A large site-specific installation in the now-abandoned Public Museum of Natural History in Grand Rapids, MI, built in 1939. 

Details about this project can be seen here at the SiTE:LAB website.

 Slavic Village, Abandoned Foreclosed Home Project, Rooms to Let, mixed media, 9' x 6' x 7', 2014.

Wicker couch, paper, fabric muslin, found wood, clothing, plaster

This was a vacant house in the Slavic Village area of Cleveland, Ohio. I am a native of Cleveland. The Slavic Village neighborhood is considered the "ground zero" area of home foreclosures. This project was meant to bring awareness to the home loan crisis and how it has leveled entire neighborhoods in this region. The project was called "Rooms To Let", 30 artists participated in over 5 homes. I chose to do an installation with all local materials. The people of the neighborhood, including the children from The Broadway School of Music, helped me gather a store materials form their homes to produce this work. I also gathered materials from a local sewing machine manufacturer. They saved old sheets, dishes, chairs and many other items, that afterwards where returned. The volunteers where proud to have the objects back knowing, that the intention of the project would linger in the objects in their homes.

Inhabiting Ten Eyck: 2014 (press release for this group show is here)
14 site-specific installations at Storefront Ten Eyck curated by Karin Bravin. Includes work by Lisa Beck, Nathan Dilworth, Devon Dikeou, Dave Eppley, Julie Evans, Ivelisse Jimenez, Beth Krebs, Rita MacDonald, Matt Miller, Elizabeth Riley, Julie Schenkelberg, Peter Soriano, Etty Yaniv, Rachel Mica Weiss

The Cleveland Sculpture Center solo show 2014

2010 Asya Geisberg Gallery solo show

Details for these three installation pieces and smaller sculptures can be seen here, at Asya Geisberg Gallery.

2010-2018

Installation 2009