Julie Weitz


Julie Weitz is an American visual artist living and working in Los Angeles. Weitz was trained as a painter, and taught painting at the University of South Florida for eight years. She began to experiment with video in 2010. Her recent work concerns the experience of the self in the modern world, where virtual and embodied experience mingle. In addition to digital editing tools, Weitz has used a variety of physical materials to create video, including paint, smoke, prefabricated sculpture, and the human body. She has also collaborated with musicians, including Paul Reller and Benjamin Wynn.
Weitz's interactive installation Touch Museum garnered national attention, with features in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, and on radio station KCRW. The installation was explicitly designed to trigger physical sensations in the viewer using the methods of Autonomous sensory meridian response. Tactile stimuli, auditory stimuli, and visual stimuli combined to blur the boundaries between perception and reality, creating a sense of "euphoric discombobulation." Weitz has described her use of physical props and pigments in her videos as an "anti-CGI aesthetic" inspired by 1970's SciFi. Weitz has had solo exhibitions at Young Projects, Eastern Star Gallery, Chimento Contemporary, Cunthaus and The Suburban. In 2013 she moved to Los Angeles, before her moving Weitz was a tenured professor at the University of South Florida. As of 2018 she teaches in Los Angeles and is a regular author at Contemporary Art Review, Los Angeles.

Exhibitions

Weitz has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo shows around the United States. Recent exhibitions include: