Painting, Woman-Owned
Julie Sulzen
Fine art paintings and drawings
Julie Sulzen has been painting professionally for over 25 years, focusing primarily on the urban landscape. She creates images of people, homes, neighborhoods, and the built environment to bring an understanding of the emotional and aesthetic ties people have to their surroundings. She examines gender and class as it relates to community and questions the notions of “icon” as it defines Chicago. She is driven to explore the essence of light, color, and form, thus furthering the ideas of true Romantic Urban Painting.
A native Chicagoan, Julie Sulzen began her art studies at Lane Technical High School. After graduation Julie continued her art education by attending The American Academy of Art in Chicago and through private study under the portrait and still life painter Grace Cole. She later attended Concordia University Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with an emphasis on Printmaking, Photography, Sociology, and Gender Studies. At Concordia she graduated summa cum laude and was recognized for a “Special Honors in Art” award from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Julie is a recipient of Chicago’s Community Arts Assistant Program Grant (CAAP), the Schoepp Travel Scholarship, and the Lillstreet Artist’s Residency Program. Her work has been selected for numerous awards including Curators’ Choice at the Around the Coyote Festival, prize winner at the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts Gold Medal Show, artist cash prize at One Inspired Evening for Inspiration Corporation, and a purchase award for the “8 x 8 Community Exhibition” at the Ferguson Art Gallery of Concordia University Chicago.
Julie’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, Concordia University Chicago, the Chicago Public Library, and Lillstreet Art Center. She has exhibited in numerous shows including the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Neiman Marcus Atrium Exhibit, Chicago), The Leslie Wolfe Gallery, One of a Kind (Merchandise Mart), The Chicago Tourism Center, Art de Triumph, The Pauper’s Art Guild, Agitator Gallery, the Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago Artists’ Month, Around the Coyote and Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festivals and at Sulzen Fine Art Studio. Her work can be found in private, university, and corporate collections.
Her presentations on the sociological aspects of her art and how it relates to gender, environment, and culture have been given at the Racine Art Museum, The Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago Architectural Foundation), The Chicago Tourism Center, The Chicago Public Library, the Self Employment in the Arts Conference, as well as conferences at Concordia University Chicago and Dominican University.
Along with studio and commission work, Julie Sulzen is an adjunct art professor at Concordia University Chicago and teaches multi-level oil painting classes at both the Oak Park Art League and at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago.
A native Chicagoan, Julie Sulzen began her art studies at Lane Technical High School. After graduation Julie continued her art education by attending The American Academy of Art in Chicago and through private study under the portrait and still life painter Grace Cole. She later attended Concordia University Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with an emphasis on Printmaking, Photography, Sociology, and Gender Studies. At Concordia she graduated summa cum laude and was recognized for a “Special Honors in Art” award from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Julie is a recipient of Chicago’s Community Arts Assistant Program Grant (CAAP), the Schoepp Travel Scholarship, and the Lillstreet Artist’s Residency Program. Her work has been selected for numerous awards including Curators’ Choice at the Around the Coyote Festival, prize winner at the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts Gold Medal Show, artist cash prize at One Inspired Evening for Inspiration Corporation, and a purchase award for the “8 x 8 Community Exhibition” at the Ferguson Art Gallery of Concordia University Chicago.
Julie’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, Concordia University Chicago, the Chicago Public Library, and Lillstreet Art Center. She has exhibited in numerous shows including the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Neiman Marcus Atrium Exhibit, Chicago), The Leslie Wolfe Gallery, One of a Kind (Merchandise Mart), The Chicago Tourism Center, Art de Triumph, The Pauper’s Art Guild, Agitator Gallery, the Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago Artists’ Month, Around the Coyote and Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festivals and at Sulzen Fine Art Studio. Her work can be found in private, university, and corporate collections.
Her presentations on the sociological aspects of her art and how it relates to gender, environment, and culture have been given at the Racine Art Museum, The Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago Architectural Foundation), The Chicago Tourism Center, The Chicago Public Library, the Self Employment in the Arts Conference, as well as conferences at Concordia University Chicago and Dominican University.
Along with studio and commission work, Julie Sulzen is an adjunct art professor at Concordia University Chicago and teaches multi-level oil painting classes at both the Oak Park Art League and at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago.
