About

Biography

Julia Kristmundsdottir’s artwork is conceptually driven and freed from external associations, inviting the observer to a mental engagement. She uses personal reality that is simplified and refined, allowing the conceptual thought, the mental processes, and the insight to build the work. She employs both representational and abstract forms and utilizes a variety of media to convey ideas.

Kristmundsdottir is currently living in Tampa, Florida. Originally from Reykjavik, Iceland, where she received her BFA, she then moved to New Orleans to receive her Masters of Fine Art in painting at the University of New Orleans.

She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the US including The Arthur Roger Gallery and The Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, LA, Studio@620 and The Art Center, St. Petersburg FL, as well as showed in various exhibitions in Reykjavik, Iceland.
She instructs painting and figure drawing at the University of Tampa and is involved in promoting and working with various art associations.

In the reality of Fata Morgana

The subject matter of my work are records of information I take from daily life and state through the simplest of forms. It can be of the most mundane nature; perhaps of one’s own vanity, or it can be more of the unknown, unfamiliar variety. The information does not differentiate between the imaginary and the real, since the mirage of life can be absolute.

Emphasizing ideas, documenting thoughts, and stating facts in this manner is to capture glimpses of the moment that is as elusive as life can be, and to notice in the mist of it all the poetical and mostly humorous existence of the being.