Julie Blackmon Art
American, b. 1966
Award-winning photographer Julie Blackmon draws inspiration from 17th-century painters. In a very playful way, the American artist makes images that are both autobiographical and fictional, introducing playful updates to the scenes of rowdy tavern interiors that Flemish and Dutch artists created centuries ago with the chaotic situations that family life can bring to the fore.
Blackmon was born in Springfield, Missouri. She studied at Missouri State University, where she discovered her passion for photography through the works of Sally Mann and Diane Arbus. She didn't formally return to photography until many years later — as a mother of three — and for much of her initial work, Blackmon found compelling subject matter in her very own living room.
Blackmon’s first major series "Mind Games" won an honorable mention in a 2004 competition at the Santa Fe Center for Photography, as well as an award from the Society of Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, Missouri.
From there, Blackmon's career gained considerable traction. She followed up her inaugural series — which comprised black and white documentary images — with a full-color series that depicted both imagined and realistic domestic situations within the home. Blackmon continued working primarily in color, exploring new scenarios and framing cinematic conceptual shots in hayfields, parking lots and neighbors’ backyards.
Blackmon has exhibited at galleries all over the United States. Her work is held in many public and private collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Microsoft Art Collection in Washington and the Fotografiska Museum in New York City.
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Color: Black
Artist: Julie Blackmon
Hair, 2013
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
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Archival Pigment
Garage
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Soap Bubbles
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I guess my work is kind of a love letter to the past and that freedom that we had, but also an acknowledgment of the anxiety that I feel, that is real, about not being able to let ou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Smoke
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Play Group
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Dutch proverb “a Jan Steen household” originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. Th...
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2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
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Archival Pigment
Flag Cake
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Night Windows
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
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Archival Pigment
Cherry
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Night Swim
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bathers
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dress Rehearsal
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Attic
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The After Party
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
American Gothic
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Birthday Girl
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Afterparty
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Treehouse
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tall Girl
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lindenlure
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sharpie
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dress Rehearsal
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Spray Paint
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Night Swim, color photograph, limited edition, signed and numbered
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Night Swim is a color photograph by Julie Blackmon. The print is a limited edition and is signed and numbered
Inspired by 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings of domestic life...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tall Girl
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Spray Paint
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“I guess my work is kind of a love letter to the past and that freedom that we had, but also an acknowledgment of the anxiety that I feel, that is real, about not being able to let o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Treehouse
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Treehouse is from Blackmon's ongoing series "Homegrown." According to the Los Angeles Times, Blackmon's images are “absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slices of ethnographic theate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sharpie
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flag Cake
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blackmon's images offer a fantastic and surreal commentary on contemporary American family life while referencing a 19th Century Flemish painting – they are intricate tableaux, combi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tinkertoys
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Homegrown Food
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bubble
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Smoke
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Inspired by art history, Blackmon’s photographs utilize classical compositions, which are then mixed playfully with carefully placed everyday items — evidence of contemporary culture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Afterparty
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Picnic
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blackmon's images offer a fantastic and surreal commentary on contemporary American family life while referencing a 19th Century Flemish painting – they are intricate tableaux, combi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Julie Blackmon Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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