Julie Shunick Brown is a contemporary Dallas artist. She grew up in Arizona and Northern Virginia, studying drawing and painting with private instructors and at The Corcoran School of Art and sketching in museums in Washington, D.C. In 1975, she received a B.F.A. with honors from Arizona State University, and has continued studying painting and drawing. She left a long career with Procter & Gamble in 2012 to return to painting full time. Julie brings a sophisticated yet expressive energy to her compositions. Her work, found in private and corporate collections across the U.S., Canada, and Spain, captures a balance between precision and emotion, inviting viewers into a world of layered color and thoughtful abstraction. She has been represented by galleries in Dallas, Santa Fe, Oklahoma City, and New York. ARTIST STATEMENT We absorb life. Events, encounters, and ideas leave their mark and can confuse and overwhelm. Painting enables me to process. Classically trained, I worked realistically for two decades, focusing on landscape, still life, and the human figure. Color was an early fascination and remains important, particularly unusual arrangements. I currently concentrate on abstraction. Starting with random marks and spontaneous colors, I react - paying attention to spatial arrangements and hue. Some of my work has been described as delicate and ethereal; others are more geometric using brighter, bolder colors. All are intuitive and nonobjective but they vary greatly in style. My paintings are intentionally ambiguous. They are not meant to represent specific ideas or to persuade; they simply reflect my ongoing exploration of what I cannot physically see. This enables viewers to interpret the work themselves.