Born: 1955 Los Angeles, California
Studied: Cal State Long Beach, B.A.
Currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California

Easton is actively engaged in a practice of making art that places everyday materials at the center of meaning in her work. Q-tips, cigarette paper, acorns, coffee cup holders, mini video screens, and plastic are just some of the materials Julie Easton has used to create work that radiates beauty and elegance.
Trained as a formalist, her work is substantially about texture and structure. Easton’s choices of materials inform and direct her artist concepts. The artist’s concerns are often best articulated through work that juxtaposes organic with man-made materials. Committed to a variety of disciplines, her sculptures, works on paper and installations exemplify her view of the world in which the mundane often becomes extraordinary. The I Ching says, “The most perfect grace consists not in external ornamentation, but in allowing the original material to stand forth, beautified by being given form.”
Artist Statement:
“Through experimentation with everyday objects, my insatiable curiosity leads me in a search for beauty and order. By pairing materials that resonate with one another, I use repetition to create a reflective or hypnotic state. It’s all about the process . . . the discovery, the play, the juxtaposition of unlikely materials. I feel like a visual scientist investigating the question, “What happens if I do this”? The process of making is my meditation. In ‘Efflorescence’, dipping thousands of paper cupcake liners in rubberized paint and discovering the unique flower-like shapes inherent in each one as they are rolled up, is a way of being focused in the moment and lost in the doing. In exploring the objects, it is my intention that the viewer be carried to a place of tranquility and engaged in discovering the subtle layers of activity below the apparently quiet surface.”