Florida Artists Group

Artist Bio:

Julie has received her Bachelors of Visual Arts in Drawing and Painting from Florida International University in 1990. She is finishing her Masters of Art Eduaction from Florida International University December 2020. Professionally, she is an Art Instructor for Dade County Public Schools for the last Twenty-nine years. She began her teaching career at North Dade Middle where she taught for 5 years. She taught at her Alma mater, Miami Norland Senior high for 8 years. Currently, she is teaching Art 1 2d/3D comprehensive, Painting 1 and Magnet Drawing and Painting at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High for the last six teen years. She has received the 2019 Star Hermitage Artist Residency, Selection, Manasota Key, Florida. 2019 Dade Art Educators Association Skevy Ralis Award of Honor High School Art Education. She received the 2016 Peoples Choice Award, Appleton Museum’s Drawing Biennial, Inspire Lines, Ocala, Florida, Juror Alison Ferris. She has also received the 2016 Williams Drawing Prize, Semi Finalist, Juror Douglas Martenson, Simsbury , Connecticut. She also received the Tiger Tail Productions, Grant to attend New York Art Students League, Drawing and Painting with Costa Vavagaisik. She has received 2013 Portrait Society of Americas Conference Scholarship. She has received the 2013 and 2011 Ruth Katzman Scholarship recipient for the Artist-in-Residency Program at The Vytlacil Campus of The Art Students League of New York.

Currently, Julie has exhibited her work in the 2019 Visual Drawing Exhibition at The Indiana South Eastern University, New Albany, Indiana. 2019 Nocturnal Views Dade Art Educators Exhibition, Coconut Grove, Florida. 2019 Superintendent Exhibition, Miami, Florida. 2016 Appleton Museum’s 2016 Drawing Biennial, Inspired Lines, Juror Alison Ferris. 2015 Kudos Art International Juried Online Exhibition. 2014 24th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show, The Arts Council, Inc., in Stuart, Florida; Florida Art Educators Association Member Virtual Exhibition, Daytona, Florida; 8th edition of the International for Audio and Visual Art Streaming Festival.

Julie’s is a representational artist; her works are delicate and sensitive with a stroke of aggression. Her current works are in the medium of silverpoint. on gessoed luan board Her goal is to make drawing more permanent and less fragile. Historically, she wants to bring the ancient form of silver point drawing back into the contemporary platform. Presently, she is working on a series, titled Entwined Magical Forrest. The Entwined series consists of one to two figures in an equally coupled symbiotic embrace. Each image depicts figures in the act of rest and contemplation - sitting, lounging, lost in thought, and gazing engulfed by nature in their surroundings.

The works included are some of Julies Paintings when she is not working on her silver point series. These works in oil paint are explorative and as an exercise to keep her hand fresh in Paint.

Artists Statement:

I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Miami, Florida.  I have received my Bachelors of Visual Arts in Drawing and Painting from Florida International University.

My works are delicate and sensitive with an aggression of stroke. Currently my new works are in the media silverpoint my goal is to make drawing more permanent and less fragile, and historically to bring an ancient from of drawing into the contemporary platform. I am working currently on a series , titled Magical Forrest   the series consist of one to two figures engulfed by natural setting of nature abound. The figures with in the series are - sitting, lounging, thinking, and gazing engulfed by nature.  my aim is to bring the viewer out of reality into a romantic dream like magical setting amidst the grandeur of Canopies of trees, foliage, flowers, as animals in their natural habitat bask in the amusement of the scene- the quintessence of Nature.

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions:
2009
Within Four Corners, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, Florida.
1999
New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
Lost Cities: An Artist’s View of the Inner City, Solo Exhibition, funded by the Miami
Dade Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami Board of
New Forms Miami, Grant recipient, Miami, Florida.
Commissioners, Miami ArtWorks, Coral Gables, Florida.

Group Exhibitions:

2019
Indiana South East University, Visual Thinking , New Albany, Indiana.
Star Hermitage Art Exhibition, Manasots Key, Florida, July-December .
Visual Thinking Drawing Exhibition , Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana.
Superintendent Exhibition, Dade Art Educators Exhibition.
Nocturnal Vision, Coconut Grove Gallery , Miami, Florida.
2017
Art Student League of New York [STartUP] , Juried Student Exhibition.
“Selfies” , Miami International University, Miami , Florida.
West Dade Regional Library, Art is Love Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
2016
Appleton Museum’s Drawing Biennial, Inspired Lines, Ocala, Florida, Juror Alison
Ferris.
Williams Drawing Prize, Semi Finalist , Juror Douglas Martenson, Simsbury ,
Connecticut.
2014
Kudos Art International Juried Online Exhibition.
Art is Priceless, Pinecrest Gallery, Juired Exhibition, Marlene Martinez,Maria C. Cumana,
Rubens Riols
Vision of Evovling Sentiment, EA Emerge Art Show, Soyka , Miami, Florida.
Florida Art Educators Association Member Virtual Exhibition, Daytona, Florida.
24th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show, The Arts Council, Inc., Stuart, Florida.
8th edition of the International for Audio and Visual Art Streaming Festival
Miami International University, “What Those Who Teach can do,” Exhibition, Miami,
Florida.
2013
Karen Ledbetter Gallery, Fort Lauderdale , Florida.
Miami International University, “What Those Who Teach can do,” Exhibition, Miami,
Florida.
2012
FAEA Member Virtual Exhibition, St. Petersburg, Fl.
The Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery, The Art Students League Vtylacil Campus, Sparkhill,
New York.
Kudos Art International Juried Online Exhibition.
Life Is Art and Robin Rile Fine Art Present:Summer Show, Cafeina Exhibition Center &
Lounge, Miami, Florida.
Best in Show Art Teachers Exhibition, Jerrys Artarama, Miami, Florida.
Full Sails in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Broward County Public Library, Art Serve Miami, All Florida Show 2012, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida
Miami International University, “What Those Who Teach can do,” exhibition, Miami,
Florida.
Arts and Letters Day, Creatures of the Night exhibition , Kendall, Florida. Vytlacil Art In
Residency Alumni exhibition, Sparkhill, New York.
Call to Artistic Action Exhibition, Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center,
Kendall, Florida.
Art Teachers Show, Jerrys Artarama, Miami, Florida. AT Show, CS Gallery, Miami,
Florida.
Vytlacil Art In Residency exhibition, Sparkhill, New York.
Within Four Courners, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, Florida.
100% Pure Exhibition, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melborne, Florida.
The Richeson75 International Figure/Portrait Juried Exhibition, Juror Michael Shane,
Kimberly,Wisconson.
Artist Project, Juried Selection , Chicago, Illinois,
Dade Art Educators exhibition, Miami Dade College, Juried Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
Kudos Art International Juried Online Exhibition, Juror Peter Trippi
San Diego Art Institute, Museum of the Living Artist, 49th International juried
Exhibition, San Diego, Ca.
2006
Outside the Classroom: Dade Art Educators Association Exhibition September 23 -
December 15, 2006, South Dade Regional Library.
The Chautauqua 49th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The Chautauqua
Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror Louis Grachos.
Palm Beach Community College, Dario Gallery, 2nd Annual Drawing, Painting, Print
Making Exhibition, Palm Beach County, Florida, Juror Barry Sparkman.
2005
New Art Gallery, Deck the Walls, Hollywood, Florida.
CG Gallery, Small Works Exhibition. Dade Educators Association, Miami, Florida
Exhibition.
“Celebration Exhibition”, K.D. Moore Gallery Evergreen, Colorado.
2004
The Chautauqua 47th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The Chautauqua
Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror Dr. Donald Kuspit.
Ocean Bank Exhibition, Ocean Bank, Miami, Florida.
2003
The Chautauqua 46th Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The Chautauqua
Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Juror Michael Gitlitz.
Annual Student Show, Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
Hollywood Biennial Juried Art Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood,
Hollywood, Florida.
2002
University of Alabama, Miami Exchange Exhibition, Alabama. WolfeCenter Exhibition,
Florida International University, North Campus, Miami, Florida.
Invented Figure Show, WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. Collaborative Book of
Poetry, “Inhabiting the Body”, Moon Press Journal, Chicago, Illinois.
Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public Places, Public Art
Piece, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
2001
Group Show, Green Door Gallery, United Artists, in support of the WTC relief, Miami,
Florida.
Stanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, Masks Auction, Selected Artist, Miami
Beach, Florida.
National Juried Competition, Portrait of a Day, Associated Artists of Winston- Salem,
Inc., Winston Salem, N.C.
Works on Paper: When the Artist draws a Shape, GraPa Studio of Art, Miami Beach,
Florida.
Best Three-Dimensional Effect, Absolut Chalk Street Art Festival, Miami Beach, Florida.
2000
Dreamscapes and Landscapes Exhibition, Montclair, New Jersey.
The Chautauqua 43rd Annual National Exhibition of American Art, The Chautauqua
Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York.

Grants and Awards:
2019
Dade Art Educators Association Skevy Ralis Award of Honor High School Art Education
Star Hermitage Artist Residency, Selection, Manasota Key, Florida
2016
Peoples Choice Award, Appleton Museum’s Drawing Biennial, Inspire Lines, Ocala,
Florida, Juror Alison Ferris.
Williams Drawing Prize, Semi Finalist , Juror Douglas Martenson,
Simsbury , Connecticut.
Tiger Tail Productions, Grant to attend New York Art Students League, Drawing and
Painting with Costa Vavagiakis.
2014
Florida Art Educators Association Member Virtual Exhibition Award, Daytona, Florida.
2013
Scholarship to attend the Portrait Society of America The Art of Portrait Conference,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Ruth Katzman Scholarship recipient for the Artist-in-Residency (A-I-R) Program at The
Vytlacil Campus of The Art Students League of New York.
2012 Best in Show Art Teachers Exhibition, Jerrys Artarama, Miami, Florida.
Tiger Tail Productions, Grant to attend New York Art Students League, Drawing and
Painting with Michael Grimaldi.
Surdna Foundation Finalist, New York, New York.
2011
Ruth Katzman Scholarship recipient for the Artist-in-Residency (A-I-R) Program at The
Vytlacil Campus of The Art Students League of New York.
Best in Show, CQ Gallery, Small Works Juried Show, Dade Art Educators Exhibition,
Miami, Florida.
Honorable Mention, Miami International University, Where’s It AT Juried Show, Dade
Art Educators Exhibition, Miami, Florida.
2011 Artist in Residency, the Vytlacil Campus Artist-in-Residence Program
2010
The Hope Floats, Saint Stevens Church, Coral Gables, Florida.
Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library Traveling Art Exhibition, New York, New York.
Surdna Foundation Finalist, New York, New York.
Tiger Tail Productions, Grant to attend Master Series Workshop , Steven Assael, Miami,
Florida.
First Place, 100% Pure Exhibition, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Mark Mittleman, Melborne,
Florida.
Honorable Mention, Dade Art Educators exhibition, Miami Dade College, Juried
Exhibition.
Honorable Mention, Palm Beach Community College, Dario Gallery, 2nd Annual
Drawing, Painting, Print Making Exhibition, Palm Beach County, Florida.
New Art International, Accepted into the Inclusion in 2006 New Art International, Book
Art Publisher.
The Bellinger Memorial Award, Chautauqua Institution, 46th National Exhibition of
American Art, Chautauqua, New York.
George Sugarman Foundation, Inc. Grant recipient, Novato, California.
Butt Stop Public Art, Springfield Massachusetts Business Improvement District,
Springfield, Massachusetts.
Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public Places, Public Art,
LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
Best Three-Dimensional Effect, Absolut Chalk Street Art Festival, Miami Beach, Florida.

Commissions:

2003 Butt Stop Public Art, Springfield Massachusetts Business Improvement District, Springfield, Massachusetts.
2002 Flamingos on the Beach, Miami Beach Coral Gables Art in Public Places, Public Art, LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.

Collections:

2015 Howard Traeger, Palmetto Bay, Florida 2009 Tom Dreher, Melbourne Florida.
2007 Matt Zuckerman, New York, New York.
2002 Jay and Ronda Fuchs, “Humanity in Flight”, Coral Gables Art in Public Places, Public Art LeJune and Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida.
Jaffe Collection Video Library, Edible Art Festival, Florida Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Publishing:

2009 Florida Today, “Reception lauds winner of 'Pure Florida' show”, Pam Harbaugh,June 5,2009.
Brevard Art News, “Fifth Avenue Art Gallery features Julie Orsini Shakher.”
OrlandoSentinel, Pick Your Arty Poison, Terry Hummel, June 5, 2009.
2008 The Richeson 75 International Figure/Portrait 2008 ,Jack Richeson & Co., Inc., Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly,Wisconson.
2005 New Art International, Accepted into the Inclusion in 2006 New Art
International, Book Art Publisher.
2003 Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Miami Herald, Herald,com.
2002 “Inhabiting the Body”, Collaborative Book of Poetry, Moon Press Journal WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.
2000 Miami Herald Living Arts, Chalk It Up, featured “Duality of Nature”. 1999 Miami Herald Neighbors Section, Sunday Profile, “Artists Work
Illustrates Bleak Life.”

Conferences and Discussion Panels:

2018 Dade Art Educators Mixed Metal Point Drawing with Permanacy, Miami, Florida.
2016 Florida Art Educators Association, Mixed Metal Point Drawing with Permanacy, Naples, Florida.
2001 GraPa Studio of Art, When the Artist draws a Shape Discussion Panel, Miami Beach, Florida.
1999 Conference Speaker, Miami 99 - Art For Our Sake, Florida Art Education Association, “Breaking the Mold of Tomorrow Workshop”.