Júlia Fernández Sánchez

Crítica realizada por Joyce Asper (PR Coordinator of  "Agora Gallery" New York)
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<br />The psychologically evocative paintings of Spanish artist Julia Fernandez reflect a sophisticated understanding of the human psyche. Working in a contemporary surrealist style, Fernandez manipulates color, movement, and texture to create stirring subjects filled with meaning. With an obsessive attention to detail, Fernandez creates works that are dually realistic and dreamlike, rendered in imagined hues and fantastical settings. Dynamic movement plays a primary role in the overall mood of her works, incorporating images stretching up and out of the canvas, placing the paintings in a perpetual state of growth. Fernandez plays with ideas of time, place, and identity in her intriguing body of work. Her paintings are characterized by an overall sense of ambiguity and uncertainty. Here, things are not always what they seem: people, places, and things metamorphose and transform before the viewer, taking him on a mystical journey through the artist&#39;s own dreamscape.
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<br />Largely self taught, Julia Fernandez has enjoyed considerable acclaim throughout Spain and exhibits her…