Julie Durkin Marty (b. 1977, Pennsylvania) is a painter whose work charts the terrain between the deep sea and outer space — not as landscape, but as the geography of interior life. Building paintings through sustained accumulation and removal — layer upon layer of poured pigment and seawater, moved with squeegees and disrupted by sanding until the surface arrives at its central paradox: physically compressed, visually infinite, matte and luminous, holding light from within — Durkin Marty translates the visual grammar of oceanographic sonar maps, satellite thermal imaging, and deep-field astronomical photography inward toward the body, the psyche, and the specific experience of living inside the climate crisis. A recurring arc moves through the work — a vortex-like form that curves through the picture plane like a breaking wave, a rainbow, or a gravitational field caught mid-rotation. Emerging through process rather than intention, this shape holds the tension between containment and release that runs throughout the practice — a practice rooted in feminine agency, in the specific experience of living inside the climate crisis as a woman and a mother who loves this planet and is not ready to let it go. Her palette — electric blues, phosphorescent cyans, deep magenta, and smoldering crimson pushing against passages of cool white and violet gray — maps a chromatic interior as expansive and contradictory as the terrains that inspire it. The sea is not only subject but material: seawater enters the paintings directly, the color drawn from living creatures, bioluminescence, and scientific imaging. These paintings translate the climate crisis into hope — Bubblegum Ocean, Marshmallow Sea — with a dark humor that is entirely intentional. Durkin Marty received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues including 63 Audubon at Yale University, DADA POST, Holland Tunnel, G-Town Arts, GBG Gallery, Mulry Fine Art, and CoLAB Arts, and has been featured in the Hartford Art Pages, Artist Magazine, the New York Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Palm Beach Daily News. She is a two-time resident of the Pollinator Platform residency. Durkin Marty lives and works in Connecticut.