Julie Weitz
Julie Weitz is an American visual artist from Los Angeles.
Background
Born in 1979 in Chicago, Illinois, Weitz was trained as a painter and taught painting at the University of South Florida for eight years. She began to experiment with video in 2010. Her recent work concerns the experience of the self in the modern world, where virtual and embodied experiences mingle. Besides digital editing tools, Weitz has used various physical materials to create videos, including paint, smoke, prefabricated sculpture, and the human body. She has also collaborated with musicians, including Paul Reller and Benjamin Wynn.Weitz's interactive installation Touch Museum garnered national attention, with features in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, and on radio station KCRW. The installation was explicitly designed to trigger physical sensations in the viewer using the methods of Autonomous sensory meridian response. Tactile stimuli, auditory stimuli, and visual stimuli combined to blur the boundaries between perception and reality creating a sense of "euphoric discombobulation".
Weitz has described her use of physical props and pigments in her videos as an "anti-CGI aesthetic" inspired by the 1970s Sci-Fi.
Weitz has had solo exhibitions at Young Projects, Eastern Star Gallery, Chimento Contemporary, Cunthaus, and The Suburban.
In 2013, she moved to Los Angeles. Before her move, Weitz was a tenured professor at the University of South Florida.
As of 2018, she teaches in Los Angeles and is a regular author at Contemporary Art Review, Los Angeles.