Professional Associations:
Florida Watercolor Society Signature Member
Daytona Beach Art League
Beaux Arts of Volusia County
Artists’ Workshop
Southern Watercolor Society
Watercolor West
Gallery Affiliations
Crescent Beach Art Gallery—Crescent Beach, FL
Carlton Art Gallery—Banner Elk, NC
Kema Glass Studio and Gallery—Englewood, FL
Museum Exhibitions
2007 “Figuratively Speaking”—Art League, Daytona Beach, FL
2006 Thomas Center Galleries Regional Juried Exhibition, Gainesville, FL
2006 "Figuratively Speaking"—Art League, Daytona Beach, FL
2005 “Three with Color”—Three woman exhibition at the Art League of Daytona Beach, FL
2004 Florida Biennial—Deland Museum of Art (Florida Art Museum)—Deland, FL
2002 1 woman show—“Tropical Spaces & Places”—Gardens Art (Art for Public Places)—Burns Road Community Center, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
2002 Art in the Round—Lake County Cultural Affairs Council, Tavares, FL—Two Woman exhibition
1999 Harris House Annex of the Atlantic Center for the Arts at Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach—Two woman exhibition “Within the Everyday”
1999 Solo Exhibition--Office of the President, Daytona Beach Community College
1998 Exhibit of select Art League Members at the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
1998 27th Annual Exhibition of Florida Watercolor Society—the Museum Of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
1995 Watercolor West—Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
1993 Southeastern Watercolor VII—the Deland Museum of Art--Deland, FL
1993 22nd Annual Exhibition, Florida Watercolor Society, Cornell Art Museum,
Delray Beach, FL
1992 21st Annual Exhibition, Florida Watercolor Society, Pensacola, FL
1991 20th Annual Exhibition of the Florida Watercolor Society—Museum of Fine Arts—St. Petersburg, FL
Thomas Center Galleries Regional Juried Exhibition
July 22-September 13, 2006
Julianne was accepted into the Thomas Center Galleries Regional Juried Exhibition.
"My piece is called 'Concealment'. It's a depiction combining the emotional impact of war on women & children in Afghanistan as well as the emotional impact on my own personal insight into a culture which up until then wasn't really something I knew very much about. (burkas, oppression of women, beatings, war & the impact on children). I started the painting soon after we went to war."
http://www.visitgainesville.net/photogallery/thomascenter.htm
September 4-29-2005
"Three with Color" - Paintings by Julianne Felton & Carol Napoli, Sculpture by Lisa Messersmith Weaver
Color is key at bright Art League show
Fine Arts Writer
Last update: September 04, 2005
DAYTONA BEACH -- The new exhibit at the Art League of Daytona Beach is everything its title suggests -- and more. "Three With Color" isn't just a serious group exhibit of colorful works by outstanding area artists.
It's a blinding, blazing explosion of hot, hectic hues and taut, dynamic forms. Acid greens and jarring orange and magenta radiate from near-abstract canvases by Julianne Felton. The brooding figure standing in the fiery field of Carol Elder Napoli's "Passion Field at Marker 12" is charred and emaciated. Mysterious symbols flow over deeply tinted, hatched surfaces in Lisa Messersmith Weaver's exquisite mixed-media vessels, hinting at treasures and secrets cradled inside. The pod at the heart of "Fire Seed VI, KK's Dream," at left, reveals the power of the searing forces that split it, creating its rocky, elegantly arched nest. All that makes "Three With Color" one of the most exciting Art League shows in memory. Felton's savage impressionism is brilliantly balanced by Napoli's spiritual intensity and Weaver's magnificently crafted enigmas, yet the overall impact of more than 60 pieces in two galleries is raucous, rowdy and delightfully provocative. It's not enough to simply see, study and think about a solid body of work by each of the show's three artists. Thanks to an installation that blends the works, hanging a work by Napoli next to one by Felton and then placing one of Weaver's sculptures close enough for them to interact, comparing and contrasting them is irresistible. And, along the way, constantly seeing them in new lights, from different perspectives. In "Florida Backyard Clothesline," a work that dominates the Art League's long front gallery, brushwork is broad and agitated. The everyday landscape seems to be animated by unexplained energies that distort its trees, old-fashioned umbrella clothesline and tangled underbrush and color them with the artist's perceptions. Shadowy greens and yellows come into focus with the cool hues of Felton's foreground tree, densely slathered with blues that express her reactions to a familiar natural setting. The glare of red in Napoli's "Passion Field at Marker 12" is very different, in its web of strokes and concentration on a single, eye-popping hue. Rather than projecting her feelings about a real landscape, Napoli drew on inner visions and created the flat, forbidding format that represents a "passion field" of the imagination. Just as strongly felt and fully realized are Weaver's sculptures, irregularly shaped vessels that look like boats or huts half-remembered from a dream, or fragments of nature touched with mystery and hidden or long-forgotten meaning. "Spirit Cradle I, State II, Journey to Peace," like "Ellie's Freedom" and other of Weaver's printed-paper structures, both suggest and deny multiple layers of significance. Too delicate to hold an infant or too small to shelter anything more substantial than an idea, the sculptures are three-dimensional poems, shy, fleeting and memorable.