Julie Speed: Snug Harbor

This exhibition catalog documents a survey of Julie Speed's artwork from 2007-2012 at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Wyoming. Julie Speed's meticulous craftsmanship in her paintings, drawings, etchings, and collages bring to mind the work of painters from the Renaissance. Unlike those artists, Speed is inspired by a limitless number of sources. Speed ponders the big questions the role of religion, isolation and longing, sexuality, sin and guilt with a sly sense of humor and a refusal to offer the viewer tidy resolutions.