Julie Parker
Bio / Artist Statement 2012
These images start with a photograph that I use as my base canvas. It is from here that I diverge from reality and build an image that enhances the nuances of light, color and graphic form. I often take a pointillistic approach, applying color at the pixel level, thinking of the whole process as Digital Painting.
I grew up in Geneseo, NY with close associations to the music and art departments at the state university SUNY Geneseo. I attended the Harley School in Rochester NY and it was there that I discovered my love of photography and the opportunities that the darkroom offered toward the manipulation of an image and the ability to share my own vision of the world.
At the University of Vermont, with both Physics and Art majors, I studied holography and the physics of light and color as well as photography. My graduate work was done with the Spatial Imaging Group at the Media Laboratory at MIT in Cambridge Massachusettes. The MIT Media Lab has a long history of bringing together the disciplines of Art and Science to further the development of new technologies.
While at MIT, I studied three-dimensional imaging including computer generated holography and computer graphics. Our research group applied knowledge of holography to support the fields of Industrial Computer Aided Design and Scientific Data Visualization.
After graduating with a Master of Science in Visual Studies in 1986, I stayed at MIT as the Spatial Imaging Group's Laboratory manager and a lecturer, giving many “demos” and teaching a class in Advanced Topics in Full Color Holography.
In 1989 I left MIT to start a family and set up a business in Vermont to produce holograms for a variety of commercial and artistic applications. I also continued my explorations in photography. In 1997 I obtained my first digital camera opening the world of the digital darkroom and beginning my studies in the computer assisted interpretation of natural elements.
My holographic and photographic artwork has shown in numerous locations in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe over the last twenty years.
I grew up in Geneseo, NY with close associations to the music and art departments at the state university SUNY Geneseo. I attended the Harley School in Rochester NY and it was there that I discovered my love of photography and the opportunities that the darkroom offered toward the manipulation of an image and the ability to share my own vision of the world.
At the University of Vermont, with both Physics and Art majors, I studied holography and the physics of light and color as well as photography. My graduate work was done with the Spatial Imaging Group at the Media Laboratory at MIT in Cambridge Massachusettes. The MIT Media Lab has a long history of bringing together the disciplines of Art and Science to further the development of new technologies.
While at MIT, I studied three-dimensional imaging including computer generated holography and computer graphics. Our research group applied knowledge of holography to support the fields of Industrial Computer Aided Design and Scientific Data Visualization.
After graduating with a Master of Science in Visual Studies in 1986, I stayed at MIT as the Spatial Imaging Group's Laboratory manager and a lecturer, giving many “demos” and teaching a class in Advanced Topics in Full Color Holography.
In 1989 I left MIT to start a family and set up a business in Vermont to produce holograms for a variety of commercial and artistic applications. I also continued my explorations in photography. In 1997 I obtained my first digital camera opening the world of the digital darkroom and beginning my studies in the computer assisted interpretation of natural elements.
My holographic and photographic artwork has shown in numerous locations in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe over the last twenty years.