Art with a Story
My work embraces the flux and flow of life and nature, the cycles of birth and growth, death and decomposition, rebirth and movement through time. They are a record and the result of my struggle and reconciliation between the material and spiritual realms, moving from friction and resistance into fluidity, like Jacob wrestling with the angel, only to emerge the next morning into a transcendent moment. Each piece I create evolves like geological strata, layers building up over time, cultivating structure in the overall composition. I think of my work as research; much as Josef Albers spoke of his work, saying “All my painting is actually study. The longer I do it, the more and more it is endless.”
Exhibitions
2022 Featured Artist, RA Modern Gallery, Crested Butte, CO
2025 Solo Exhibition, CHIII Gallery, Denver, CO
About the Artist
Born in Pueblo, Colorado, Julia Rymer is a multi-media artist and art educator. Her works evoke her emotional experience of the natural world, while investigating her relationship to time, history, nature's cycles, and Jewish practice and heritage.
She holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, and a BFA in Painting from the University of Denver School of Art & Art History. Her 25-year art career spans numerous solo and group exhibitions and inclusion in many corporate, museum and private collections throughout the United States. As a founding member of the Seed Sister Artist Collective since 2020, her work has been featured in many international group exhibitions in Europe and Asia. Past artist residencies include the Children’s Museum of Denver and Createspace Wales.
Julia has an extensive background in art education from the K-12 to university level and is a faculty member at the Curtis Center for the Arts in Greenwood Village, Colorado, teaching child and adult art classes. An avid language learner, Julia recently earned her B1 Zertifikat in German from the Goethe Institut. She lives in the foothills outside of Denver, Colorado, with her husband and two children.