A: Is for the controversal art of Julie Harvey

In the art world and in the world itself there are stories of men trying to compromise women’s virtues in order for them to get ahead. In 1974 a Picasso painting was vandalized at the MoMa. Southampton artist Julie Harvey terrorized many when she teamed up with a Boston collector to portray art dealer Tony Shafrazi in a full life portrait -- naked, obese, and bearing a strikingly underdeveloped male member. Tony you see had terrorized Julie and the Boston collector and was the culprit of the MoMa incident. Julie’s next portraits were of other well-known artists and dealers “She was aiming at the good-ol'-boys club of the New York art world”. She was touted as forgiving you but not forgetting and definitely having a creative way to in which to get even. You can see this work and more at the MoMa until March 27th.
Julie has broken new ground and some friendships with her controversial nude portraits of art world luminaries Mary Boone, Larry Gagosian, Charles Saatchi to name a few. These works and others by the brilliant Harvey are a powerful exhibition, Documenting a Feminist Past: Art World Critique, 1960 to Now.
Julie lives and works in NYC and is a viable part of what makes NYC so great. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures throughout the country and has been featured in many a television shows and news programs. Producing and directing multimedia events that incorparate many artists. Ms. Harvey received a grant in 1995 for her experimental use of a new aluminum panel called Alpolic as a support for paintings and sculptures. Through this research, she received a US Patent for bonding artist’s materials to these architectural panels. In 1999, Ms Harvey erected the Liberty Mural. From the tragic events she next created in 2001 the “Bin Laden” painting creating a worldwide frenzy as it traveled around the globe via the Internet. Her current project is a series of paintings inspired by her Go-Go performance events and the many dancers and actors who performed. The Liberty Mural Project was to celebrate the past, present and future of Lower Manhattan. The project involved enlarging an oil painting into a 75 x 50 foot mural and then installing this mural over a building. An independent contractor scanned the transparency, and enlarged it by sections on flexible vinyl. The sections were then fused together forming a tremendous vinyl painting. The finished mural looks like a gigantic artwork exhibited on the exterior of a building. The Liberty Mural was presented to the community as a visual expression of the foundations from which our city and nation were established and to display of hope. The mural hangs high near Liberty Street and Maiden Lane and reflects Lower Manhattan’s historic past while proudly looking toward the Millennium. Last but not least is the calender series depcting the relationship between people and nature. Begining in the spring as a young girl. She matures as each month goes by becoming more sexual as she approaches the fall. In the winter she becomes older and hibernates until she is reborn near spring. Each painting includes a weather report that was inspired by the NY Times. May we emulate Julies paintings and become like a phenoix rising from the controversies of life and make that a F.A.C.T.