Statement: Since 2024, my practice has explored the collapse of linear time and the space between memory and imagination. I create surreal collages in which figures inhabit fractured landscapes that open onto emotional terrains of alienation and renewal, tracing the tension between external forces and inner states. The imagery draws on natural and architectural elements, including terrain, skies, weather, and interior thresholds that dissolve into unstable environments. I am interested in how stillness and spatial ambiguity shape perception, allowing meaning to emerge through implication rather than narrative resolution. My process integrates analog and digital techniques, combining hand-cut collage with digital refinement to produce scalable Vibrachrome prints on aluminum. Through my work, I reassemble fragments of the visible world to construct imagined environments that feel familiar yet unsettled, inviting viewers to question what is real, remembered, or imagined.
Biography: Julia Kohane is a collage artist working in New York City. Her practice explores how memory and imagination reshape experience and how fragments come together to form surreal scenes that feel open and unsettled, suggesting narratives that remain fluid or unresolved. Working from hand-cut elements that develop into larger compositions through a combined analog-digital process, she creates layered works presented as scalable Vibrachrome prints on aluminum. Her work often centers on liminal spaces and psychological landscapes, exploring the tension between inner states and external environments.
Kohane has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in Hudson, New York; Ludington, Michigan; Colorado Springs, Colorado; San Diego, California; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Cincinnati, Ohio; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Old Forge, New York, as well as in London, United Kingdom; Rome, Italy; and Milan, Italy. Among other publications, her work has been featured in Brutjournal.
