Julianne Swartz: Tenderness

Julianne Swartz melds intangible elements—sound, light, air, and magnetism with traditional craft to create sculpture and immersive installations. Her work beckons participation, inviting individuals to engage deliberately with sensory experiences. Awards include the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship in Music and Sound, Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters Artist Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters and Sculptors, and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. Julianne resides and works in Stone Ridge, New York. She teaches at Bard College and serves on the board of Governors for the Skowhegan School of Art.

Sculptor and journalist William Corwin is from New York. He has exhibited at galleries in New York, London, Hamburg, Beijing and Taipei. He has written regularly for The Brooklyn Rail, Artpapers, Bomb, Artcritical, Raintaxi and Canvas. Most recently he curated and wrote the catalog for Postwar Women at The Art Students League in New York, an exhibition of the school’s alumnae active between 1945-65, and 9th Street Club, and exhibitions of Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Mercedes Matter, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner and Elaine Dekooning at Gazelli Art House in Mayfair. He is the editor of Formalism; Collected Essays of Saul Ostrow, (2020).