Julie Sutherland in an artist living and working in San Francisco. She received her Bachelor's degree in Studio Art and Art History from Mills College in Oakland, CA and shows her work locally - most recently in the 2008 National Queer Arts Festival. Her painting, prints, and mixed media drawings explore the grey area between political issues and personal experience, especially in regard to gender, violence, history and landscape. Recent series have mined art historical sources to highlight disturbing gender violence, reconfigured mainstream ideal beauty to be more flexible - but no less beautiful - and explored how landscape and space can be considered "queer". www.juliesutherland.net