{"id":261457,"date":"2025-05-28T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/joanne-mattera-art-blog-in-memoriam-julie-karabenick\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:48:04","slug":"joanne-mattera-art-blog-in-memoriam-julie-karabenick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=261457","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Mattera Art Blog: In Memoriam: Julie Karabenick"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\u201cI find the expressive power of geometric shapes compelling.
\nAcross time and\u00a0place, we have used these simple forms to assert our most
\nprofound beliefs\u2014about the nature of our everyday world and what may lie
\nbeyond, about our personal, social and spiritual identities, and about the
\nrhythms and cycles of our lives. I was drawn to these forms\u2014to the geometric
\nmarkings that our early ancestors made on rocks, cave walls, and their bodies
\nand to the geometric patterns found in nature from microcosm to macrocosm\u2014long
\nbefore I came to admire the use of geometric form in modern art.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nJulie Karabenick, Contact,<\/i>\u00a02019, acrylic on panel, 24 inches diameter<\/span>
\nOpening quote from Julie’s website<\/a>; inset photo of Julie with\u00a0Composition #78,<\/i>\u00a02008, from her Facebook<\/a> <\/b><\/i>page<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nWe Have Lost a Colleague and Friend<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nThe art world is a little bit smaller with the passing of
\nJulie Karabenick<\/b><\/a>. A painter of exquisitely realized geometric abstractions and the curator of Geoform<\/b><\/a>, an international resource\u00a0<\/span>of abstract geometric art, Julie touched
\nmany lives both personal and professional. She was smart, scholarly, generous, and kind. I was fortunate to have her as a friend for 15
\nyears.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Julie died on August 8, a week after the passing of her husband, Stuart<\/b><\/a>,
\na teacher and mentor at the University of Michigan who liked his job so much he
\nnever really retired. She was 73, he 80. No details for either death were
\nprovided by the family, but as the rabbi noted at J<\/b><\/a><\/span>ulie\u2019s service<\/b><\/a><\/span>, \u201cPeople are
\nnot how we die. We are how we live.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBoth lived a full life surrounded by Julie\u2019s
\nart; their daughters, Leah<\/b><\/a> and Rachel<\/b><\/a>; Stuart\u2019s two children from a previous
\nmarriage, Robin Leavy and Scott Karabenick; their extended families and grandchildren; books (both held Ph.Ds in psychology); and a huge circle of friends. For a self-described introvert, Julie had an enormous circle, some of whom will be commenting here. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

\nJulie and Stuart in an undated photo. From Julie’s Facebook pace, posted by Rachel Karabenick<\/i><\/span>

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“I love Karabenick\u2019s art activism on Geoform.<\/i> If
\nyou don\u2019t know the site you should take a look. It\u2019s rich with many artist
\ninterviews and loads of images. Karabenick\u2019s one-woman crusade to educate about
\nartists who make this type of work is generous and a great public service.” <\/span>–Roberta Fallon, Artblog<\/b><\/a>, 2008<\/span><\/span>

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\nThe Beginnings of Geoform<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n
\nJulie contacted me back in late 2004. I forget how she made
\nthe initial contact, but I ended up on a long phone call with this woman from
\nAnn Arbor, her broad, flat Midwestern intonations crisscrossing the wireless waves
\nwith my speedy Manhattan-by-way-of-Massachusetts accent. She was launching a scholarly
\nresearch website called Geoform,<\/i>\u00a0she said, and she wanted me to be part of it. Geoform? It
\nsounded like a mining project, or maybe a New Age habitation initiative. But
\nno, it was to be a serious site dedicated to what she described as \u201cgeometric
\nform and structure in contemporary abstract art.\u201d Her plan was for it to be
\ninternational, which it was from the very beginning. At last count the project contained
\n350 artists from 33 countries. Julie was so informed and so sincere that without knowing much more than that, I
\nagreed to participate.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nRight: A recent screen grab of the <\/i>Geoform<\/b><\/a> site<\/i><\/p>\n

We met in Manhattan at a corner table at a diner in Chelsea, a vegan and a
\nnon-meat-eater surrounded by bacon and burgers. It was the wrong venue for us,
\nbut we plunged into conversation anyway. Part of her plan, she said, was to
\naugment the site with artist interviews, a way to deepen the reader\u2019s
\nengagement with this genre about which she was so passionate, and not
\nincidentally to bring greater recognition to the artists themselves. The next
\nmeeting during her visit was at the more dietarily compatible Souen, a macrobiotic restaurant in
\nSoHo, where I joined Julie and Stuart as well as Laurie Fendrich<\/b><\/a>. I think
\nJulie was heartened by the early support that Laurie and I offered, but it was
\nclear she was fully motivated to pursue the project, whether we supported it or
\nnot. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Julie\u2019s research was far ranging. At the time I was writing about the art fairs
\nin New York and Miami for this blog, so I had a sense of the international
\nscope of geometric abstraction. Julie found artists I\u2019d never heard of whose
\nwork was wonderful. And she did it not by traipsing through endless booths in
\nendless fairs (rheumatoid arthritis limited her travel) but by dogged online
\nresearch, followed by outreach and extended communication with each artist. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nCurated Exhibitions<\/span><\/h3>\n


\nWhile she was finding and adding new artists to Geoform<\/i> and conducting Interviews
\nfor the site, Julie was formulating plans for what she hoped would be a series
\nof curated exhibitions. Two were realized. (Disclaimer: I was fortunate to have been included in both.)\u00a0 The first was Engaging the
\nStructural <\/i>at the Broadway Gallery in SoHo in 2005. Never one to do things
\nhalfway, Julie got Lily Wei to write an essay for the show. The following
\nyear, ORDER(ed)<\/i> took place at Gallery Siano in Philadelphia. Roberta Fallon
\nwrote the essay, this time with a catalog. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Not only did Julie do a marvelous job of bringing Geoform <\/i>artists
\ntogether aesthetically in real time and space, she was the catalyst for many
\nfriendships between and among us. She would remain the nucleus for many such
\nconnections as Geoform <\/i>expanded.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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\nEngaging the Structural\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

\nBroadway Gallery, New York City, April 5-30, 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPanoramic view. Left wall: Timothy App (Maryland), Siri Berg (New York), Tim McFarlane (Pennsylvania), Julie Karabenick (Michigan); remainder from left: Cecily Kahn (New York), Howard R. Barnhart (Maine), Laurie Fendrich (New York), Christine Vaillancourt (Massachusetts), W.C. Richardson (Maryland), Gail Gregg (New York), Joanne Mattera (New York), Marjorie Mikasen (Nebraska)<\/span><\/span>
Photo courtesy Howard R. Barnhart.<\/span><\/p>\n


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\n\u201cAs a psychologist and artist, Karabenick is fascinated by
\nthe primal power that geometric figures continue to exert.\u00a0For Karabenick,
\nwho is passionate about geometric form and pattern, one impulse in organizing Engaging the Structural<\/i> was to show the diversity of contemporary geometric
\nabstraction and to marvel at the continued vitality of this
\nhistoric\u00a0tradition. Artists, Karabenick proves, are still drawn to the
\nrichness of its syntax, a syntax that seems inexhaustible.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u2014Lilly Wei, from \u201cGeometry Reloaded,\u201d\u00a0NY Arts Magazine,<\/i> May-June, 2005<\/span>
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\nGallery Siano, Philadelphia, May 5-June 17, 2006<\/span>

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\n\u00a0<\/i>Partial panorama of <\/span>ORDER(ed) <\/i>from left: Cheryl Goldsleger (Georgia); Grace DeGennaro (Maine), twoworks; Julie Gross (New York), two works; Marjorie Mikasen (Nebraska); W.C. Richardson (Maryland); Laurie Fendrich (New York), two works; Joanne Mattera (New York), four works; Tremain Smith (Pennsylvania), two works\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nPhoto courtesy Howard R. Barnhart showing eight of the 17 artists in the show<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other artists: Steven Baris (Pennsylvania), Howard Barnhart (Maine), Mark Brown (North Carolina), Gail Gregg (New York), Julie Karabenick (Michigan), Burton Kramer (Canada), Tim McFarlane (Pennsylvania), Alex Queral (Pennsylvania)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n<\/a>“In complex abstract paintings that allude to music, science, maps, the realm of the spirit and more, the artists of Order(ed) <\/i>describe relationships and structures that capture some truth about life in our busy, often turbulent, and always surprising world. From a vocabulary of regular and repeating shapes and lines, the artists build visual structures that hint at chaos and point to the age-old need of humans to impose order on the world.\u00a0<\/span>
\n–Roberta Fallon, from the catalog essay, “Beauty, Order and Individuality”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nRight: The catalog with a page opened to the work of Julie Gross<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n“I have always been fascinated by the expansive power of simple geometric forms. For most of my career, my work has explored diverse approaches to combining these forms to create complex structures that engage the viewer through multiple and fluctuating readings.”<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 –Julie Karabenick in A Few Conversations About Color<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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\nA Selection of Julie’s Work<\/span><\/h3>\n

Julie described herself as “resolute” in her pursuit of geometry in art. Of course the work changed over time–this selection starts with the most recent and\u00a0 goes back almost 20 years–but complexity of composition, clarity of color, and a pristine, uninflected surface are hallmarks of the work throughout its development. The early paintings featured compositions flat against the picture plane. Any sense of space came from the size of the rectilinear elements and colors that advanced or receded. Small color blocks piqued the eye. One series, produced between 2010 and 2012 introduced a Mondrianic boogie-woogie jumpiness; Julie even turned several squares on their points, a brash and unexpected move. Over time Julie introduced spatial ambiguity–interlocking rectangles, stylized house shapes, diagonals that suggested perspective, and more recently tondos whose compositions contained faceted elements aswim in chromatic pools, each element connected by fine lines to the others. These new tondos offered something celestial, cosmic. Oh, to have seen where she might have taken them, or where they might have taken us.<\/span>
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\nJackknife World,<\/i>\u00a02020, acrylic on panel, 26 inches diameter<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSun Worship,<\/i>\u00a02019, acrylic on panel, 24 inches diameter<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBlue Orbis,<\/i>\u00a02018, acrylic on panel, 20 inches diameter<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n#57,<\/i>\u00a02017, acrylic on panel, 26 x 26 inches<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n#<\/i><\/span>50, 2016\u00a0<\/i>acrylic on panel, 29 x 29 inches<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n# 47,<\/i>\u00a02015, acrylic on panel, 28 x 28 inches<\/span>
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\nComposition 91,<\/i>\u00a02010, acrylic on canvas, 45 x 45 inches<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nComposition 71,<\/i>\u00a02007, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 28 inches<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nComposition 47,<\/i>\u00a02004, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 28 inches<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nSome of Julie’s Exhibitions<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nJulie had eight solo shows, two two-artist exhibitions, and numerous group shows around the country. I’ve included images to which I had access, but you will find a full listing on her website<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nArchitectural Fantasies<\/b>
The Painting Center, solo exhibition, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nFrom the The Painting Center website: “Each painting features complex and intricately balanced
\nclusters of architectural fragments and forms that simultaneously clamor for
\nthe viewer\u2019s attention. Each cluster presses forward toward the viewer in an
\nimpossibly shallow space that defies a single, coherent reading. Ambiguities
\nabound as flat shapes intermix freely with shapes that imply volume, and
\nmultiple perspective systems clash.”\u00a0<\/span>
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\nOnEdge<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Painting Center, New York City, 2018,\u00a0curated by Susan Post\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nA PDF catalog of the exhibition is viewable here<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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\nInstallation view with work by Anthony Falcetta, Audrey Stone, and Julie Karabenick<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFrom the website: “The Painting Center presents <\/span>OnEdge<\/i>,\u00a0featuring ten
\ncontemporary artists whose abstractions dive head-on into both the literal and
\nthe metaphoric subject of the edge. Selected from among more than 70 artists currently on the <\/span>Art
\nFile<\/a>, a curated online gallery on The Painting Center\u2019s website, these
\nartists use color and line to evoke and\/or confound the simulation of space.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nA Few Conversations About Color<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\nDM Contemporary, New York City, 2015, curated by Joanne Mattera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nInstallation view, from left: Nancy Natale, Joanne Freedman, Matthew Langley, Ruth Hiller, Julie Karabenick, Joanne Mattera
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\nJulie Karabenick, <\/span>#12, <\/i>2013, acrylic on panel, 22 x 22 inches<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAs curator of this exhibition, I knew I had to include Julie’s work. What would a conversation about color be without it? Here’s a bit of how I described her work: Julie Karabenick uses the language of structure–in<\/span>terlocking geometric shapes–whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts. . . Karabenick plots her compositions on the computer to create chromatically intense paintings with exquisite precision.<\/span>
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\nA PDF catalog of the exhibition is viewable\u00a0here<\/b><\/a>
That’s Julie’s painting,\u00a0on the cover, below: #13,<\/i>\u00a02013, acrylic on panel, 22 x 22 inches
Ruth Hiller designed the catalog<\/span>
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\nRemembering Julie<\/span><\/h3>\n

My voice is just one in a chorus of friends and admirers–what Steven Baris describes a “<\/span>vast artistic ecosystem” that formed around Julie–<\/span>so I yield to them to complete this memorial. (Each artist is accompanied by an image from Geoform<\/i> of her or his work.)\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Would you like to contribute to the conversation? I invite you to post in the Comment section below your reminiscences, anecdotes, or expressions of grief.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThe young Julie, posted on her Facebook<\/i>\u00a0page\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nby Leah Karabenick<\/p>\n

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T<\/b>racey Adams<\/b>, artist<\/span>
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\nMy
\nfirst encounter with Julie was in 2007, as part of an almost yearlong interview
\nprocess for <\/span>Geoform.<\/i> I had never considered the possibility of such a
\ntime-consuming and thorough interview, yet I learned more about myself as well
\nas Julie during the time we sent emails back and forth. Shortly thereafter,
\nJulie, Stuart and I met for coffee in Santa Fe as she was part of an inaugural
\nexhibition at David Richard Gallery.<\/span>

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\nWe
\nhad weekly or biweekly phone conversations until her untimely death on August
\n8. Stuart would often get on the phone and ask me about Big Sur and Carmel,
\nyearning to revisit these places. It almost happened earlier this year but was
\npreempted by Covid 19.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBesides
\nbeing a consummate scholar and writer, Julie was an extraordinary artist,
\nspending months working on a single painting until she felt it was completed.
\nHer latest series of circular shaped panels with bursts of brightly colored
\ntriangular patterns showed a more playful side. Julie understood what her work
\nwas about and she never backed down in her pursuit to stay the path in order to
\npaint what was important to her, rather than to an audience. More than anything
\nshe wanted her work to be included in exhibitions that focused on geometric
\nform.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJulie
\nwas gentle, compassionate and generous. When we were chatting a few years ago,
\nshe mentioned the importance of drawing in my practice. The following week, an
\niPad Pro with an Apple pencil arrived from Julie and Stuart as they hoped I
\nmight enjoy drawing on a digital device. In turn, I sent them a painting which
\nhangs in their home. Julie\u2019s concern for the underdog was her beacon as she
\nsupported many non-profit organizations that focused on animals, the
\nenvironment and politics, and more.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJulie\u2019s
\nthirst for spiritual connection and understanding was a journey we shared as we
\nread the same books and often discussed how to incorporate these teachings into
\nour lives during these challenging times. I will miss her deeply and hope that
\nher soul is at peace.<\/span>
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Steven Baris<\/b>, artist<\/span>
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\nIn
\nmy mind the dates and details are blurred, but Julie, as a person, a friend,
\nand an artist, remains vivid as ever. I cannot say for sure when she first
\ncontacted me to participate in her curatorial masterpiece, <\/span>Geoform,<\/i> but I would
\nguess it to have been around 2005. What anchors those early memories of our
\nfriendship was my good fortune to be included the following year in a
\nremarkable group exhibition she curated titled <\/span>Order(ed).<\/i> Not only was it an
\nespecially memorable collection of artists but it initiated, for me, several
\nlong-lasting relationships that continue to this day. In retrospect, I realize
\nthat facilitating connections and community was one of Julie\u2019s many talents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo
\nknow Julie as a fellow artist was to participate in a long-term, intermittent
\ndialog about what is happening with each others\u2019 work\u2014to comment on and to
\ncelebrate both the big leaps and the incremental changes. She was always so
\nsupportive of my work, and I would like to think that I was equally so with
\nhers. Indeed, the two of us have come a very long way since we first met, and
\nI am greatly saddened that her explorations have come to an untimely end. She
\nwill be sorely missed, but her extraordinary artwork will live on in the vast
\nartistic ecosystem she helped to create.<\/span>
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William Conger<\/b>, artist<\/p>\n

I first met Julie in
\n2007 when she interviewed me for her Geoform <\/i>website.\u00a0 She began with a studio visit and we became
\nimmediate friends.\u00a0Soon afterwards,
\nJulie and her husband, Stuart, visited Kathy and me at our home in Chicago for
\nan afternoon of lively talk about art and life.\u00a0 After months of emailing and phone calls,
\nmarked by exacting questions and edits, Julie\u2019s Geoform<\/i> interview was
\ncompleted.\u00a0It\u2019s the best interview I\u2019ve
\nhad in linking specific work to commentary. Later, I was pleased that she
\nagreed to include it in my 2010 Retrospective catalog. We remained in touch. Her last email to me
\ncame just weeks ago, in July, when she simply and characteristically asked how
\nI was doing.\u00a0I had long admired Julie\u2019s
\ncomplex geometric paintings and attended her Chicago exhibitions. I sometimes
\nwondered if she was not curtailing her own studio time as she tirelessly aided
\nother artists\u2019 careers on Geoform.<\/i>\u00a0But
\nGeoform<\/i> is a masterpiece in its serious and professional showcasing of new
\ngeometric abstract painting around the world.\u00a0It will endure. Recently, I saw that Julie was completing her new
\ncircular paintings that show terrific expressive energy and formal rigor. They
\nare memorable and complex paintings.\u00a0They will endure. They contradict
\nthe tragedy of her untimely passing by celebrating both optimistic exuberance
\nand calm firmness of total artistic commitment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roberta Fallon<\/b>, art critic and editor of <\/span>Artblog<\/a><\/b><\/span>
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\nJulie
\nreached out to me in October 2005 when she was organizing a 17-person abstract art
\nexhibition in Philadelphia and invited me to write the catalog essay for the
\nshow. Between October 2005 and May 2006, Julie and I had numerous and intensely
\nfocused conversations via email and phone.\u00a0 We talked about the show, its
\ntitle, the catalog, the publicity, and about pulling together a panel to speak
\nabout abstract art.\u00a0 Julie, who was the curator as well as an artist of
\ndazzling geometric paintings in her own right, treated me as an equal, a
\ncollaborator. She was a wonderful collaborator. Humble yet exacting, full of
\ngreat ideas but an excellent listener, she always seemed to want to make things
\nbest for everyone. She was generous with her thoughts, comments and praise. And
\nshe moved mountains. She got things done. The intense connection Julie and I
\nformed during 2005-2006 created a lasting friendship, and even though I heard
\nirregularly from Julie after that, when an email arrived from her, it was
\nalways filled with her wonderful kind spirit. And that is how I will remember
\nher, as a wonderful kind spirit.\u00a0<\/span>
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Laurie Fendrich<\/b>, artist<\/span>
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\nIn
\nmy most recent online conversations with Julie Karabenick a couple of months
\nago, we talked about how in an age of Covid, intense identity issues, and
\nwretched politics, it was hard to hold onto the idea that abstract painting
\nholds meaning for anyone other than the artists who make it. Yet when I look at
\nJulie\u2019s oeuvre, including her most recent paintings, I don\u2019t see doubt; I see
\nvigorous, confident, lively, colorful and smartly geometric paintings valiantly
\ndefying doubt.\u00a0 Julie was not an
\nidealist, either in her outlook or her art. She believed that bringing the reason
\nand simplicity of geometry to bear on abstract painting was one of the best
\npainterly routes to discovering beauty and finding outward-reaching meaning,
\nbut she had a wry sense of humor about everything, and clearly saw the futility
\nof idealism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nGeorges
\nBraque famously said he loved the rule that corrects the emotion. Julie\u2019s art
\nepitomizes this pithy saying, for her jazzy spiritedness is always yoked to
\nrules\u2014implied, that is, but never rigid. The idea of the necessity of rules
\nalso shows up on Geoform,<\/i> her brilliantly conceived and meticulously maintained
\nproject of curating and preserving an online presence for geometric abstract
\npainting, where the artists selected invoke, to one degree or another, the
\nglorious rigor and beauty of geometry.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWhen
\nI was interviewed for Geoform<\/i> in 2007, Julie conducted multiple interview
\nsessions with me by phone. At the start, I was thrilled, but soon I found
\nmyself wondering, \u201cHaven\u2019t I answered everything already?\u201d She\u2019d say, almost
\napologetically, that she still didn\u2019t quite understand something I\u2019d said in a
\nprevious conversation and wanted me to try to explain it one more time. The
\nthing is that by persevering, she got me explain it better. <\/span><\/div>\n

\nOnly
\nnow do I see that Julie\u2019s pursuit of the truth about what other abstract
\npainters do and think was never a search for \u201cabsolute truth,\u201d like some kind
\nof Platonic form. Nor was it a survey of geometric abstract painters. It was a
\nsearch for words that, for all the limitations inherent in language, came
\nclosest to what abstract painting means.\u00a0
\nWhen she nudged artists to go further and explain more, she was nudging
\nboth herself and us to abandon our language of conceit, delusion, clich\u00e9 and
\nartblat.<\/span>

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\nIn
\nmy online correspondence with Julie over the several years I knew her, and in
\nthe several face-to-face encounters we had\u2014almost always with her wonderful
\nhusband Stuart\u2014I saw someone who strove to \u201cget things right\u201d in everything
\nfrom her painting to her family, her vegetarian lifestyle, and her
\npolitics.\u00a0 We who knew her miss her, but
\nare grateful for her friendship, the legacy of her art, and <\/span>Geoform.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n<\/a>Howard Hersh<\/b>, artist<\/span><\/span>
\n
<\/span>I felt very honored when Julie included me in the Geoform<\/i> site.\u00a0 It was early in its creation, and early in my participation on social media.\u00a0 No matter how large Geoform<\/i> became, Julie was always available to share and compare thoughts and strategies for Geoform<\/i> and in a greater sense, geometric abstraction’s place in the art world. I’m sure I’m not the only artist who felt that they knew Julie well, despite having never met her in person.\u00a0 She was just that kind of person.\u00a0 Rest in peace, Julie.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n<\/a>Emily Lenz<\/b>, Director and Partner,\u00a0<\/span>D. Wigmore Fine Art<\/b><\/a>.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>I was introduced to Julie Karabenick\u2019s site,\u00a0Geoform,<\/i>\u00a0by Joanne Mattera in 2010. Joanne was in to see our 1960s geometric paintings show,\u00a0Op Out of Ohio,<\/i>\u00a0featuring Julian Stanczak and Ed Mieczkowski and recommended I check out\u00a0Geoform.<\/i>\u00a0I was impressed with the quality of Julie\u2019s interviews and the geometric artists she presented on her site. We connected and Julie interviewed three of our gallery artists: Julian Stanczak, Ed Mieczkowski, and Tadasky. Julie had a special touch as an interviewer–likely because she was an artist as well as a generous, sensitive person. In particular she did an incredible job on Tadasky\u2019s interview. Tadasky opened up to Julie slowly and she had the patience to persevere with lots of back and forth emails and phone calls. Her approach opened Tadasky to talk more about the intention of his work and his personal history. Her interview stands as the best history of Tadasky\u2019s life and work. I am honored to be able to link my gallery website to Julie\u2019s significant project\u00a0Geoform.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n


<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n

\nSuzan
\nShutan<\/b><\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0artist<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI
\nfirst met Julie when I reached out to her about Geoform,<\/i> a website that kept
\npopping up in my feed with so many artists I knew. I was excited to see an
\nentire website dedicated to contemporary global artists whose work was
\ncommitted to the sphere of geometry in new and exciting ways. I felt my work
\ndeserved to be part of this community, so I reached out to Julie on Facebook<\/i> to
\nconnect with a private message. She responded right away. At first, Julie did
\nnot see my work\u2019s connection and needed to be persuaded about how it linked
\n(since it\u2019s nestled in organic geometry). This led to my showing her more work,
\nthen earlier work, and even earlier work that went back to my roots. <\/span><\/div>\n

\nThe
\ninteresting part was an entire year\u2019s worth of conversations that grew more
\nfrequent, richer and deeper over time. Not only did we discuss my work and her
\nwork and our motivations and art history and the art world, but we began
\nsharing the intimacy of our personal lives. It was a slow growth that led to a
\nrich friendship and reminded me of when I lived in the Midwest. People observed
\nyou like they observed the growth of crops. Once they began to tend to you they
\nmade sure that you grew and friendships became solid and lasting. This was
\nJulie, a unique and truly special character trait. She wanted to know you from
\nyour seedling, from inside out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nGeoform,
\n<\/i>her legacy, is a community she built. She observed,<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>planted, seeded, grew it and tended to it.
\nThis community, built from her own artworks passion, is one of mutual
\nunderstanding and respect, of sharing and support, a reflection of all that
\nJulie was.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n

\nDearest
\nJulie and Stuart, I love you and miss you! You enriched our\u00a0life!\u00a0<\/span>I
\nwant to remember you as the curious couple smiling and fascinated in every
\ndetail of our art-making and life-history.\u00a0Your Geoform<\/i> interview with
\nJulian is precious because of the depth of exploration and minute\u00a0detail
\nof observation. And Stuart was there correcting the punctuation and word
\nchoices; you were exquisite collaborators in art and life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhen
\nyou wrote the essay for my publication, your fascination with the creative
\nprocess\u2014which you as a sensitive practicing artist knew well\u2014 explored the
\ndimensions of space and materials within this new universe of visual decision
\nmaking. It remains the best publication and clearest insight into my work to
\ndate. I thank you for it.\u00a0<\/span>And
\nI thank you for your friendship and human closeness, your smile and enthusiasm,
\nyour total dedication to any enterprise undertaken. Knowing Stuart and you has
\nenriched our lives and when I think of you two, I smile, recollecting\u00a0the
\nevening we read Winnie the Pooh<\/i> in Latin!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n(Photo is of Barbara and her late husband, Julian Stanczak. Julian’s work is on the Geoform\u00a0<\/i>site. Barbara’s organic forms are not;\u00a0click on her name to see her work.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n

\nStuart and Julie at Barbara Stanczak’s opening at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPhoto courtesy of\u00a0 Barbara Stanczak<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span>
\nClosing notes: Julie’s website and Facebook<\/i> page will remain online, as will Geoform<\/i>. Her daughters, Leah and Rachel, are managing the 80-some paintings she left behind. An exhibition or sale may be forthcoming. They will post information on Julie’s Facebook page, and I’ll share whatever I learn in an update to this post.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nRest in peace, Julie and Stuart. I hope you knew how loved and respected you are. And now, how much you are missed.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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