Julie
Anne Mann

Julie Anne Mann lives and works in the Pacific Northwest, returned to the region after twenty-five years studying and working in New York. She is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, and her work has been exhibited throughout the United States.

Julie Anne Mann works in natural materials — devil’s claw seed pods, wasp nests, Canadian goose feathers, water chestnuts, dandelion seed, Queen Anne’s Lace in resin, slippery elm seed on linen, maple leaf skeletons. The materials are not neutral: each carries its own biological logic, and Mann uses that logic to address parallels in human nature. Her practice consistently moves between the botanical and the anthropological, weaving in botanical lore to examine the push-pull between human presence and the natural world.

In her Forest Portrait series, book-matched walnut burl panels serve as ground. Mann applies silver leaf, then uses a cross-hatching technique to draw the twisted, gnarly forms of Pacific Northwest trees from the material itself. The series has been exhibited at the Garrison Art Center and Lake George, New York. She returned to the Pacific Northwest after twenty-five years studying and working in New York, where she earned her degree from the School of Visual Arts.