JULIE DEVRIES

Julie DeVries (b. 1980) is a visual artist whose work includes paintings, installations, digital drawings, and animations of images from her memories and observations of nature within urban and suburban environments. Her work highlights the impact of human activity on the natural world and the emotional benefit of green spaces.

Born and raised in Houston, Julie continues to live and work there with her husband, photographer Sebastien Boncy, and their daughter Louise. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, focusing on painting and Latin American art history, and spent a semester studying abroad with family in Argentina. Julie later obtained her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Houston and is currently a Visual Arts faculty member at Lone Star College North Harris. Her work has been exhibited and collected both locally and nationally, including being part of the prestigious Houston Endowment permanent collection. DeVries was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at Hunter Dunbar Projects, which was reviewed in the September issue of the Brooklyn Rail.