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Julie Armbruster
Professor Wunderbar's Door Was Always Open
Graphite, acrylic, ink, epoxy resin on wood
Julie is a mixed media painter, working with pigment, graphite, acrylic and ink to create a catalogue of images that relate her perceptions. Images are repeated, developing conclusions that point to the unnatural and destructive behavior of humanity, whose collective view insists on being the exception to the laws of nature. Recent work delves further into the imaginative world of the individual characters and their personal struggle to understand their unique potential. Julie Armbruster has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries throughout the East Coast and Abroad, including the School of Architecture in Venice Italy, 80 Washington Square Gallery in New York, and Rebus Works in Raleigh, North Carolina. Julie was born in Voorhees, NJ and has lived in New York most of her life. She received a Masters in Painting from New York University in 2003 and has studied abroad in Italy and Germany. For the past three years Julie has lived in Asheville.
Story accompanying piece: Professor Wunderbar, the proprietor of a small, but successful self-help clinic, sits patiently collecting her thoughts and preparing for a day of listening, reflection and creative problem solving. Born, Alphra Wunderbar to a pair of longhaired feral cats in the basement of the local nuclear power plant, Professor Wunderbar used her humble beginnings and her propensity for astute observation to develop an appreciation for helping others. Having offered her advice on a small scale to friends and colleagues, she decided to open her own business to best serve the needs of her clients. For each visitor, she would have the question or issue inserted into her Brain Chamber and then converted into high pitched frequencies that bounced inside her huge cranium. The response was then translated, printed out, and given to the client to absorb the content on his or her own time. Occasionally, her patients would want further analysis, but her advice was always final.
