Juliana Haliti
New Exhibit at 4 Elements Studio
January 12 - March 22
Opening Reception January 12 / 6 PM
Free and Open to the Public
January 12 - March 22
Opening Reception January 12 / 6 PM
Free and Open to the Public
BIO
Juliana Haliti is a painter and sculptor who makes work reflecting upon the blind faith of their childhood—their unknowing participation in racist and unethical capitalist systems—drawing on an overwhelming sense of culpability and guilt, as well as what caused them to challenge these systems and their relationship to these things today.
Their work has been exhibited locally and nationally including, The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY, H Galleries in Ventura, CA, Tomato Mouse in Brooklyn, NY, MOZAIK Virtual Future Art Awards, DAB Art Co. in Los Angeles, CA, Saratoga Arts in Saratoga, NY, The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY, and The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. They received their BFA from the College of Saint Rose, their MA in Studio Art from the University at Albany, and their MFA from the University at Albany. Haliti also proudly served as the art editor for the online publication, Barzakh magazine, during their three years at the University at Albany. Haliti is a 2021-2024 NYSCA Regrant Panelist for Saratoga, Fulton, and Montgomery counties. They are also a 2023 Capital Walls muralist, in Albany, NY. They had the honor of being a 2023 Troy Art Block muralist, located in Troy, NY. Haliti is also a founding member of The Box Party Collective, which is a 2023 NYSCA Community Regrant recipient.
Artists Statement:
I grew up in a racist, homophobic, abusive, and controlling household in the era of mass consolidation of farming in America. The corporate overdevelopment of my hometown left me to surmise how the demand for animal-based products was being met all around me. My assemblages, collages, and prints are an amalgamation of imagery and material surrounding my struggle to understand a lifetime saturated with the normalization of racism, homophobia, lies, and abuse, as well as systemic manipulation by capitalist forces. Drawn to pattern, color, and shape, I abstract, obliterate, and highlight certain aspects of my original reference imagery. Dimensionality forms as I layer on mixed media, selected, and found objects. The act of collaging is a way to bring these forces together to attempt to grapple with, process, and unpack my particular upbringing and current relationship with them.
My collages emerge from researching otherworldly visuals—the iconography of ecocide and oppression. My assemblages are products of this need to question and understand what these things look like and where I intersect with them. I collect objects like animal skin, bones, hair, fur, carcasses, and fragments of mechanical equipment, deliberately leaving my ethics in question, mirroring my own struggle of involvement and confusion. A parallel world emerges, revealing a safe space to question my complicity both past and present.
Their work has been exhibited locally and nationally including, The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY, H Galleries in Ventura, CA, Tomato Mouse in Brooklyn, NY, MOZAIK Virtual Future Art Awards, DAB Art Co. in Los Angeles, CA, Saratoga Arts in Saratoga, NY, The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY, and The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. They received their BFA from the College of Saint Rose, their MA in Studio Art from the University at Albany, and their MFA from the University at Albany. Haliti also proudly served as the art editor for the online publication, Barzakh magazine, during their three years at the University at Albany. Haliti is a 2021-2024 NYSCA Regrant Panelist for Saratoga, Fulton, and Montgomery counties. They are also a 2023 Capital Walls muralist, in Albany, NY. They had the honor of being a 2023 Troy Art Block muralist, located in Troy, NY. Haliti is also a founding member of The Box Party Collective, which is a 2023 NYSCA Community Regrant recipient.
Artists Statement:
I grew up in a racist, homophobic, abusive, and controlling household in the era of mass consolidation of farming in America. The corporate overdevelopment of my hometown left me to surmise how the demand for animal-based products was being met all around me. My assemblages, collages, and prints are an amalgamation of imagery and material surrounding my struggle to understand a lifetime saturated with the normalization of racism, homophobia, lies, and abuse, as well as systemic manipulation by capitalist forces. Drawn to pattern, color, and shape, I abstract, obliterate, and highlight certain aspects of my original reference imagery. Dimensionality forms as I layer on mixed media, selected, and found objects. The act of collaging is a way to bring these forces together to attempt to grapple with, process, and unpack my particular upbringing and current relationship with them.
My collages emerge from researching otherworldly visuals—the iconography of ecocide and oppression. My assemblages are products of this need to question and understand what these things look like and where I intersect with them. I collect objects like animal skin, bones, hair, fur, carcasses, and fragments of mechanical equipment, deliberately leaving my ethics in question, mirroring my own struggle of involvement and confusion. A parallel world emerges, revealing a safe space to question my complicity both past and present.
