Juliann Aune Art

Juliann Aune concentrates in oil and encaustic painting as well as watercolor and mixed media works on paper. The optimistic romantic and the raw skeptic meet in her work through an ongoing visual dialogue that explores the land, places, and unexplainable elements that make a home. The importance of materiality, texture, and tangibility in two dimensional work, stems from her urgency to explain intangibles in a visual portrayal.  Her work explores the fluidity of time, our relationship to it, and it’s relationship to the places we inhabit. Aune believes a home extends beyond the walls that contain our possessions, the place we eat our meals, and lay our heads at night. The heavy influence from her home in the southeastern landscape and the mountains of North Alabama is embedded in her work. She is a Huntsville native, who received her Bachelor of Fine Art with a concentration in painting from Auburn University. Juliann Aune has participated in The Sketchbook Project, an international touring art exhibition that is part of the Brooklyn Art Library’s permanent collection. Aune recently exhibited work in the Auburn University’s 2014 Juried Fine Arts Student Exhibition and received the Department of Art James E. Furr Award for Creative Excellence, Joyce and Roger Lethander Merit Award, and a 2013 Dean’s Choice Purchase Award. She exhibited her thesis collection in Parallel Parallel at the Biggin Gallery and currently has work in the collection of Fieldworks Projects in Auburn Alabama.