Julie Alpert is a Seattle-based installation artist with a background in painting and drawing. She earned a BA from the University of Maryland and an MFA from the University of Washington. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artist Trust, and Oklahoma Visual Art Coalition. Artist residencies include two MacDowell Fellowships, Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, VCCA, and I-Park Foundation.

Her work is in private and public collections including The Anderson Museum, Facebook Seattle, Ledger Coworking Bentonville, Seattle Public Utilities, King County Portable Works, and the Washington State Art Collection. She recently closed solo shows at Crystal Bridges Museum and ahha Tulsa and has an upcoming show at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.

Julie has a major public art commission scheduled to open in 2025 at SeaTac Airport. She is married to the artist Andy Arkley and they have three cats: Coconut, Koala, and Baby Cloud.

I make theatrical site-specific installations using everyday arts and crafts supplies, hardware store materials, and modified found objects. In a single three-dimensional scene akin to a stage set, I celebrate and examine the joy, confusion, and contradictions of the human experience. Recurring themes include my 1980s suburban Maryland girlhood, the thrill of anticipation, the distance between our realities and expectations, routine and repetition, and the nostalgia we imbue our collectibles with.

In between labor-intensive installations I use a stream-of-consciousness process to make lots of drawings, collage and sometimes ceramics. These smaller pieces enable me to work out color, texture, and shape that I eventually bring into the large-scale work.

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Facebook, Seattle, WA
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
Ledger Coworking, Bentonville, AR
King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Kunst Rijnstate, Arnhem, NL
Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA Port of Seattle, SeaTac Airport Commission, WA (scheduled for 2025)
Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
Washington State Arts Commission, North Hill Elementary, Des Moines, WA
Private collections across the US