Julie Durkin Marty (b. 1977, Pennsylvania) is an abstract painter attuned to the deep structures that underlie lived experience. Her work operates at the intersection of sensation and systems—where memory, ecology, and material process converge. Drawing from the rhythms of the natural world—tidal shifts, atmospheric pressure, the accretive logic of the ocean floor—Marty constructs paintings that feel less composed than revealed, as if excavated from a slow-moving geological time.\Her work unfold through layers of luminosity and resistance. Color and form push and recede, generating a palpable tension between fragility and force, intimacy and scale. These works reward sustained looking: what initially reads as gesture gives way to structure; what feels intuitive reveals formal rigor. Traces of movement and erasure remain visible, embedding the surface with a sense of duration and ecological memory. Marty’s practice is distinguished by its emotional intelligence and disciplined abstraction. The paintings hold space for uncertainty and resilience alike, proposing abstraction not as escape, but as a means of grappling with transformation—environmental, psychological, and temporal. She earned 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 at DADA POST, Holland Tunnel, G-Town Arts, 63 Audubon, Yale University, GBG Gallery, Mulry Fine Art, and CoLAB Arts, and has been featured in The New York Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Palm Beach Daily News.