Julia Kubica, trained in graphic design at Georgia State University and former student-in-resident at The Center for Experimental Design and Research in Parthey, France, deftly mixes drawing, drafting, printmaking and collage techniques in her artwork, guided by a restraint that lends the work its quiet beauty. Repeated, overlapped, slightly offset arboreal imagery alternates with tracery borrowed from vintage sewing patterns and other iconography of nostalgia, punctuated with light color washes, to ethereal effect. A clean, strong line combines with a exploration of the language of craft and natural forms to create a body of works that draw the viewer in by their elegant composition, and by the self-assured femininity they radiate.

As a member of Atlanta-based art collective True Heart Collaborations, Kubica was recently named a Finalist for the 2006 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist of the Year. Her delicately feminine installations and works on paper, acrylic & fabric seem to define themselves by their shadows and negative space. As is true with the work of True Heart Collaborations as a whole, Kubica’s solo works impress upon the viewer as refined, subtle, and confident. Julia Kubica’s work has been exhibited locally at Saltworks, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Eyedrum, ShedSpace and Youngblood Gallery. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Atlanta Gallery Association's Introductions[05] series of citywide art events.