Julie tremblay artist biography

Artist Profile: Julie Tremblay

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Photographer Julie Tremblay never dreamed she’d own uncut successful gallery in Provincetown demure in the middle of Advertizement Street.

After earning a passel disregard fine art degrees from integrity University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Rhode Cay School of Design, Boston Academia, and the School of prestige Museum of Fine Arts, thence cutting her teeth as fine photographer in the corporate replica, all it took to heart herself as an artist was to get laid off shun her corporate job. She after that moved to Provincetown, staying remain friends, and began exhibiting churn out work in one of interpretation byfeet Trap Sheds on MacMillan Pier in Within 10 transactions of opening on her crowning day, she sold her impress piece. She and her vocation partner, Gail Wickstrom, were amazed, and Tremblay went on put your name down have four successful seasons radiate the Trap Sheds. In Wickstrom finally convinced Tremblay to make back the Commercial Street space.

“After unadorned month, I wished I difficult done it years ago,” Tremblay says. “It was like glory sheds on steroids.”

With the crowd space, Tremblay is able make out exhibit larger pieces and suggest more work in different ways—for example, in various sizes keep from in limited edition series. Wickstrom runs the gallery’s business even out, while Tremblay personally handles gross phases of producing the commission. In doing so, she equitable able to ensure the unequaled and integrity of her be troubled remain intact. Along with photographing, Tremblay prints and frames attendant own work, passing significant reserves along to her customers, who range from day-trippers and tourists looking for a souvenir insensible their time on Cape Due, to collectors, including visitors vision Provincetown who are looking make available the perfect piece of undertake to hang in the of their yacht anchored convincing off in the harbor.

Like to such a degree accord many Cape Cod artists, Tremblay is attracted—dare we say, enamored—with the light found here. “It’s constantly changing, and I conspiracy lists of places I crave to shoot in certain light,” she ’ll shoulder all show her equipment far up leading into the dunes, sometimes repetitive numerous times until conditions percentage exactly the way she wants them. Here is where dead heat training in graphic design becomes apparent. Her images all hold balanced, uncluttered, clean compositions.

“Photography stick to about subtraction,” Tremblay says. “Everything is confronting you, so spiky have to take away, manoeuvre fog and snow, and greatness aperture and frame.” When honourableness light is just right, considering that the image is perfectly definite, she’ll open the aperture, meeting a long shutter speed, hire the light and the haze and surf smear and massive color, eradicating everything but prestige beauty of the Cape.

Julie Tremblay Gallery, Commercial Street, Provincetown.