Habitats
Habitats
Born in Argentina and now living and working in Cincinnati, interdisciplinary artist Julia Orquera Bianco interrogates cultural constructs resulting from Modern Western Culture, collective memory, and the experience of migration and gender. Her new chapbook HABITATS (Materialist Press) follows the thread connecting individual, community, and environment. Featuring bold colors, graphic illustration, and deeply reflective prose, this artist publication will be printed in a limited first edition and hand-bound. The first 100 copies of the limited edition will come with a mixed media screenprint, made solely for this purpose.
A large portion from sales will go toward expenses connected with the artist’s O1B visa renewal application. All pre-orders were shipped Monday October 9 via USPS.
about the work
“This project is the result of a long time invested in exploration of the self. As part of this process, within a few years I changed my place of residence, my art practice and my lifestyle, to accommodate room for growth and nourishment. It was important to me to live fully aligned with my values of Intention, Gratitude, Integrity, Service, Freedom, and Presence. It was a challenging process at times, and looking back I am grateful for all of it.
Learning to listen to Nature drove me to start painting again, and inspired a kind of writing that happens in the intersection of my self and the Land. This book documents those encounters, where grief and sadness are met with love and hope, under the canopy of – and supported by - Mother Earth.”
About the artist
Julia Orquera Bianco was born in Argentina and lived in Mexico before moving to the United States. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2012. In 2018 she graduated from the MFA program at Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 2020, Bianco earned a Certificate on Sustainability from University of California, Los Angeles.
Bianco works through interrogating constructs resulting from Modern Western Culture, collective memory, and the experience of migration and gender. This allows her to speak about an identity constantly being renegotiated and in motion, in deep relation and conversation with the environment she inhabits. Her explorations use her family legacy of labor and craft as a strategy to connect with worlds that she is foreign to, experiencing them while remembering. She currently teaches at University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has been showcased in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States.