August 19 – October 18
Opening Reception
Thursday, August 22 | 5 – 7 p.m.
Get to know Julia LaBay
Julia LaBay is a 3D technical assistant and instructor at the University of Toledo Department of Art. Julia works with youth through Young Women of Toledo. She is also the Curator for the Blair Museum of Lithophanes. She received her BFA in sculpture at the University of Toledo in 2012 and her MFA from Bowling Green State University in 2015. She also manages her own design company.
Her work has been shown regionally as well as nationally at galleries and museums including the Toledo Museum of Art, Northern Kentucky University and Mary Grove College Detroit, MI.
LaBay has won awards and grants for her artistic creations. Most recently was awarded an Artist in residency at Imagination Station during the summer of 2024.
From Julia LaBay:
My most recent work has been investigating tools and the space they occupy. I experiment by way of, how things take on new meaning depending on placement and orientation in space. Through my own understanding of exploration with material I’m creating a visual language.
Tools have been the one constant in my life and career. As a woman artist, designer, educator and Jill of all trades. There’s a different language you learn when working with tools, that relationship tells you their limits through your own senses.
By taking my daily life as subject matter and referencing human interaction. I approach a wide scale of materials and processes in a multi-layered way. I investigate space and material, I lure the viewer into moments that exist to punctuate human interaction in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in my everyday life. To see is a metamorphosis, not a mechanism.