Rising Tide is a solo exhibition of twelve works on paper made over the past four years by visual artist and educator Julie Harrison. Driven by curiosity and adventure, Harrison has spent her career investigating materials to mine their visual and physical attributes, playing with changing forms of expression and experimenting with the new. This process has guided the evolution of her work over the years, moving from early video art and performance into drawing.

“My work explores invisible structures that shape organic life and ecological systems,” said Harrison, “I visually interpret
this through layered, abstract lines and shapes that map energetic exchanges to construct fragments of an imagined
biology. My drawings combine graphite and ink with digitally-sourced imagery of microscopic organisms, maps, brain
activity, and my own cutout shapes.” She continues, ”These fragments serve as raw-material for abstraction and conceptual exploration. The resulting compositions are improvisational, intuitive, and process-driven as I crop, paste, and draw onto paper. Rising Tide includes selections from my Brain Series, Landforms Series, and Coastal Series. The finished
works are abstract and only partly recognizable. They reflect the fluidity of biology and the entanglement of nature, imagination, and human intervention.”