Julia Wachtel
Accumulation
2024 (Edition of 30)
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Wachtel’s limited-edition print is released through PHA’s Print Publishing Program.
Throughout her work, Julia Wachtel pulls imagery from the internet to create complex dichotomies and commentary on climate change and the environment, pop culture, and consumerism. The seven screenprinted layers in Accumulation reflect Wachtel’s painting process; the repeated oil refinery imagery originates from her painting Glare v.2 (2023). Wachtel engaged in a highly collaborative process with the PHA Printshop team, building bars of pastel colors to support the vibrant, layered screenprints of refineries and the recurring “bling baby.”
Seven-color water-based screenprint, UV ink on Coventry Rag 335
30 x 17 in
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered
Julia Wachtel
Julia Wachtel (b. 1956, New York, NY) lives and works in New York and Connecticut. Wachtel’s oil, acrylic, and silkscreen-on-canvas paintings, which are drawn from popular culture, explore the impact of our image-saturated world. A figure associated with the Pictures Generation artists who emerged in early-1980’s New York, Wachtel’s early work mined posters of movie stars, pin-up girls, political figures, and pop music icons, as well as cartoon figures drawn from commercial greeting cards. Her current work primarily explores the vast space of the internet, a place of constantly replenishing images on a disorienting scale. Wachtel appropriates, juxtaposes, and ultimately distills these images into concentrated paintings, shifting the original logic and proposing an examination of the emotional, political, and aesthetic conditions of an image dominant world. Wachtel’s work is included in international collections including The Museum of Modern Art; MOCA, Los Angeles; The Whitney Museum of American Art; FRAC Normandie; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; Vanhaerents Art Collection; and the Zabludowicz Collection.
