Artist Statement

I make wet-on-wet inkjet prints on gampi and other Japanese papers. I dampen the sheet before printing so the ink diffuses into the fiber—blooming, bleeding, or breaking depending on saturation, gravity, and paper structure. I work with those conditions rather than trying to control them.

The images develop through scanned drawings and photographs, digital layering, and iterative proofing. I’m drawn to moments when the image isn’t fully fixed—when it hovers between clarity and dissolution—and to the way viewers complete what isn’t fully there. The work asks for slow looking. It shifts with light and distance, and meaning arrives gradually through attention.

Bio

Julian Harake is an artist and architect based in Bozeman, Montana. He works primarily with wet-on-wet inkjet printing on gampi and other Japanese papers. His work has been exhibited nationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Missoula Art Museum, and his collaborative work has been presented at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2021) and at MAXXI in Rome (2014). Harake is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Montana State University’s School of Architecture and has previously taught at Barnard College, Syracuse University, NJIT, The New School, and the University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.Arch from Princeton University and his B.A. in Architecture from UC Berkeley.

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