In Jula Lynn’s minimalist paintings, the foundation is cotton fabric, upon which she constructs sculptural geometric compositions to create a body of work that wavers between abstraction and tangible representation. The editing strategy focuses on abstract painting and is characterized by the use of muted and saturated water-soluble colours. Her practice draws attention to purposely added details such as sewn lines and glued surfaces, while her gestural cutting of holes points as much to negative spaces as to physical depth.
The principle of the artwork allows sentiment to take priority over shapes that need to be categorized. By working thematically in series, the artist gives the paintings a structured framework, underlining an imagery that reflects on the existential. She states that it is not idealization per se that interests her, but rather the physicality of the material, colour, and form-through which sensuality, vulnerability, and vitality are collectively expressed.
Jula Lynn Kniesel was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1994. She received her bachelor’s degree in Textile Design, focusing on an artistic approach, from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences’ Faculty of Design in 2018. Since then, she has been working in the studio of the painter Sabine Jesse-Kniesel at Dosenfabrik in Hamburg, with group exhibitions in Spain, Hamburg, and Berlin following.