Biography

Painting atmosphere and the palpability of air has always been at the root of Julika Lackner’s paintings. First, it was in the form of artificial light in urban spaces and how that kind of light abstracts interior architectural spaces. Then, her interests moved to how natural phenomena (night sky, clouds, and fog) obscure vision. After that, Lackner examined the properties of aerial views where the topography as seen through the clouds fleshed out the invisible yet visible aspect of air. Then, Lackner distilled the natural phenomena of her previous work into abstract forms composed of horizontal and vertical bands of paint and silver leaf, color markings, diaphanous layering, and turbid spaces. The confluence of these abstract forms into new phases, where the traditional landscape is experienced without being directly represented, is at the core of Julika Lackner’s most recent works.