Mixed Media - Hybrid Analog Digital Collage 

Artist Statement

Since 2024, my practice has explored the collapse of linear time and a delicate space between memory and imagination, where past, present, and future coexist rather than unfold sequentially. I create surreal collages that suggest different realities, in which figures inhabit fractured landscapes and interior thresholds, suspended between psychological states. These environments are not fixed locations, but shifting terrains shaped by vulnerability and instability, creating disorienting spaces. The figures in my work often appear simultaneously fragile yet resilient, reflecting the human condition as one marked by vulnerability, uncertainty, and endurance. I am drawn to themes of alienation, mortality, and collective unease, as well as to the ways memory distorts, fragments, and reassembles experience. My compositions examine the tension between external forces and inner states, suggesting ambiguity rather than resolution, which opens space for multiple interpretations.

My practice is rooted in lived experience and shaped by displacement and dislocation, often unfolding within liminal spaces. Working through processes of fragmentation and reassembly, the collages do not belong to a specific time or place; instead, they exist in a state of transition where time and place remain unsettled, mirroring the instability of memory and the fluid nature of emotional states. Through my practice, I reassemble fragments of the visible world into imagined environments that feel familiar yet unsettled, inviting viewers to question what is real, remembered, or imagined.

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Biography​

Julia Kohane is a New York City-based collage artist whose hybrid analog-digital practice has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, she has lived in Israel and Italy before settling in the United States. These experiences of displacement and resettlement continue to shape her practice. Working with found imagery alongside her own photographs, Kohane creates surreal compositions shaped by the interplay between inner states and external forces. Her process begins with editing and printing source material, which she hand-cuts and assembles into layered physical collages. The final works are produced as high-resolution archival Vibrachrome prints on aluminum, scaled up from the original hand-cut collages while retaining the intimacy and tactile presence of their physical origins. Kohane holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Fordham University. This background shapes how she approaches image-making, combining an interest in psychological states with a philosophical engagement in questioning perception, memory, and the human condition. Kohane’s work has been exhibited at venues including Art Comes Alive at ADC Fine Art, View Arts Center, Art Scene West, Limner Gallery, Ludington Area Center for the Arts, Art on 30th, MVA Gallery, Memento Mori Gallery, and Denise Bibro Fine Art (online exhibition), with additional international exhibitions including London and Milan. Kohane has been featured in Brutjournal and the Women in Arts Network, and published in Monochromica, Photo Trouvée Magazine, and Contemporary Collage Magazine. Upcoming institutional projects include the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center Annual Juried Exhibition, Nyack, New York, a historic nonprofit museum dedicated to the legacy of Edward Hopper, and City: From an Artist’s Perspective at the Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, California (digital exhibition catalog).