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Download A charcoal self portrait of Julia Burke. (2.6 MB)
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Download A memorial oil painting of Julia Burke's Grandfather, Scott Burnside (1.6 MB)
Academic Level at Time of Creation
Senior
Date of Creation
Spring 4-26-2026
Artist Statement
Julia Burke was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She is a 21 year old artist who is a senior at Murray State University working on her B.A. in Studio Art emphasizing in painting and minoring in Museum Studies. In 2022, she participated in Governers School for the Arts for the visual arts category inspiring her to become a professional artist. Julia is an active member in the Hopkinsville Art Guild and an assistant to Griffen Studio’s Art Camp in the summers. Her work has been shown within the Pennyroyal Arts Council and in SRISA gallery in Florence, Italy where she studied abroad in 2025.
Julia’s work is a critique to the growing use of A.I. She uses her work to highlight the individuality and uniqueness of visual art by exploring the imperfection of painting mediums. Themes of her work focuses on the human experience by looking towards her community and rediscovering her german heritage. Creating portraits, landscapes, and still lives using watercolor, oil paintings, and ceramics.
Advisor/Mentor
Mike Martin
Description
This portfolio is filled with twenty individual pieces that focuses on the large idea of identity. To describe identity, there is a mixture of mediums including oil, watercolors, graphite, and ceramics. The portfolio is meant to consider the different aspects that influence identity. Identity by family is seen in oil paintings like Portrait of Pawpaw or rediscovering german heritage through ceramic pieces like Black Forest Vase. Other influences include her study abroad in Florence, Italy through watercolors like Monochromatic Student. Julia uses the symbol of the bird to represent not only loved ones that have passed, but also a reminder of community and a feeling of peace. All of these pieces are meant to try and understand how, where, and what shape our identity and invoke the audience to find out what influences their own identity.
Photo Credit
Photo credit, Julia Burke
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Burke, Julia L. Ms., "ART 399 Portfolio" (2026). Professional Practices (ART 399). 195.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art399/195