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Julia Fouser
@jcfouser.bsky.social
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American University MFA ‘26
gay, neurodivergent, enthusiastic pessimist
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Meet Again, 2025, Gelatin plate print collage on canvas.

#art #gelliplate #gelliprint #collage
a round collage of gelli prints in bright colors and a mixture of textures. a white silhouette of a noose meanders through the composition, near the loop of which is the text “meet again. act of will and memory.”
August 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Pull of the Day!

This is L’Inconnue de la Seine, the face that inspired the face mold of Resusci Anne! The legend goes, this plaster face is the death mask of a woman who drowned in the Seine in 1885. The real identity of the woman is unknown.
#gelliplate #gelliprint #fineart
a faint black gelatin print of a woman’s face with subtle streaks of yellow, purple, and blue underneath
August 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I’m continuing my exploration into cmyk gelli printing!

I got my hands on a resuscitation manikin (a resusci anne to be precise) and will be photographing her for resource material for prints and paintings. Super excited!

#gelliplate #art #fineart #printmaking
a gelatin plate print of an image of a resuscitation manikin’s viewed through a kaleidoscope
August 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Sorry for the lack of posts, life was… life-ing.

Here is my first attempt at printing a photo using CMYK on a gelatin plate!

#art #artsky #printmaking #cmyk #gelliplate
a gelatin plate print of a small, slightly blurry photo of a man spraying a tree with a hose in a backyard, with a sunset in the background
August 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The Shadow, 2025

This piece is made up of smaller gelli prints combined to make one large image, mounted on distressed cardboard.
All of the pieces surrounding it are also works of mine from last year that will eventually get their own posts.
#shadow #art #fineart #gelliplate #collage #cardboard
a photo of a wall in a studio with several paintings hung around a collaged image of a human body, distorted to resemble a shadow with a black star emanating from the head
April 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Sentinel, 2025

25 gelatin plate prints of one large digitally collaged image, all printed on medicine information paper and mounted on wood panel.
#art #fineart #collage #gelliprint
25 gelatin prints arranged in a grid which creates one large image of two children playing by a river with smokestacks and a large skull looming in the distance
March 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A few of my better experiments from my book project!
#art #fineart #studio #bookart #books
a photo of some yellowed book pages in a disorganized stack, with a smattering of small salt crystals on the corners a photo of an assemblage with a photo of Marilyn Monroe with a dog underneath a bone wrapped with paper that reads: “she thought she would be a pretty girl, a starlet” a photo of a book that has been taken apart and re-glued so that it has one long page instead of many photo of a book that has had its pages glued together in such a way that when it is opened, the pages create a honeycomb pattern
March 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I have an assignment to do some studio experiments with a material of my choice (I chose books) which have lead to some… normal behavior.
#art #experiment #studio
March 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Paper Talks, 2025
28 gelatin plate prints of one large digitally collaged image, all printed on a manuscript I wrote and mounted on canvas.
#art #fineart #gelliplate #collage
a grid of gelli prints in blue, teal, and green that make up one large image of a scene in a paper mill with radially-symmetrical text overlaid
February 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Playing around in the studio, none of this is glued down yet!
#art #collage #WIP #gelliplate
an overlapping abstract collage in red, orange, yellow, and pink with color overlaid text-bearing paper
February 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Pull of the Day? Likely.
I still can’t photograph to save my life, but I hope it doesn’t detract from the print too much!
#art #gelliplate #abstract
a gelatin plate print of purple-black swirls on a red backdrop, with a single bright white circle in the center
February 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Cardboard lion update.
#art #fineart #sculpture #WIP #cardboard
photo of sculpture of sitting lioness, made iut of cardboard
February 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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That feel when the first pull of the day is also the pull of the day!
Someday I’ll figure out how to photograph these better…
#art #gelliplate #abstract
a gelatin plate print with white circles haloed in yellow on a red and orange textured background
February 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Pull of the Day! Pleased with this one—this is the first time I’ve used water in multiple layers.
#gelliplate #art #abstract
a gelatin plate print that looks like water droplets in yellow, red, and deep purple
February 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I don’t show WIPs very often (too self-conscious) but I’m really excited about this base I built for a paper machê lion yesterday. All found cardboard from around the studio! #WIP #sculpture #cardboard
a headless form that looks like a lion, built out of cardboard, in a messy studio a headless form that looks like a lion, built out of cardboard, in a messy studio
February 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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What They Do to People Like You, 2023

Another old piece that held up alright! Oil painting based on a medical textbook collage.
oil painting in which a woman bundled in a blanket watches a man have a needle pushed into his neck
February 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Through the Lens, 2025
36 gelatin plate prints of one large digitally collaged image, all printed on medication information paper and mounted on canvas.
#art #fineart #collage #gelliplate
colorful large-scale collage of a close-up image of a person putting in a contact lens overlaid with drawings of medicine
February 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Sacrifice, 2024
#art #fineart #collage
collage of a baby surrounded by organ meat
February 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Examination, 2023
An oldie but a goodie. Like most of my paintings, this was based on a collage of medical textbook images.
#art #fineart #oilpainting
oil painting of two children holding a poster of a cross-section of a human head
February 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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City on a Hill, 2025
#art #fineart #collage #gelliplate
February 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Tried a new collage technique on the gelatin plate for the first day of #februllage ! The theme for today is trees. #art #gelliplate #collage
a print of a tree on collaged paper with lots of neon colors
February 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Here is a small collage study while I work on some big stuff.
#art #fineart #gelliplate #collage
a colorful abstract collage with paper and bubble wrap on a small oval-shaped panel
February 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Keep It Close, 2024
#art #fineart #collage
abstract collage with a close up image of a human heart overlaid with an eight-pointed star
January 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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VOID series of paintings from last year! These were my first works in grad school. They were all based on collages of medical textbook images.

VOID: A Trap Within Rest
VOID: A Hunger Without End
VOID: A Light Without a Harbor
VOID: A Life Within a Life

#art #fineart #oilpainting
oil painting of a woman lying in bed with a skull, partially obscured by starbursts rendered in thick paint painting of a bog mummy and an oversized face with an open mouth connected by a somewhat abstracted spinal column painting of a window with orange tendrils expanding out from it while a face in shadow looks on painting of a man in a lab coat and a man whose face is buried in his hands watching a monkey swing its arm
January 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Rest Lightly, 2024
#art #fineart #collage
collage with abstract elements partially obscuring an image of a child being operated on
January 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM