Artist Statement

I make wet-on-wet inkjet prints on gampi and other Japanese papers. The translucent sheets are dampened before printing so the ink diffuses into the fiber—blooming, bleeding, or breaking according to saturation, gravity, and paper structure. The image emerges through these conditions rather than being imposed upon 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 imagery doesn’t depict so much as provoke recognition. The work 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 at galleries and institutions in New York, Montana, and California. 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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