About the Artist

Juliana Zadik

Juliana Zadik is a Georgia-born, South Carolina native who grew up on the banks of the Savannah River seeking salamanders, skipping stones, and making “potions” with her siblings and innumerable cousins. She’s been creating since time immemorial, having inherited the itch from a lineage of imaginative matriarchs with a knack for creating art with anything available – sock scraps, dried lentils, bottle caps – amidst the demands of working and raising copious children.

Thanks to the influence of her paternal-imbued penchant for relishing time in nature, she is constantly longing for wild places washed in greens, blacks, and browns that are filled with furtive and boisterous flora and fauna. She is enticed by the drab, sneaky, skulking birds. She is engrossed by the ingenuity of every flower. She loses time following the storylines written by insects. These muses, big and small, are the through-line of her craft, no matter the medium, and are constantly jostling for their time on her blocks, canvas, and paper.

A self-taught illustrator, painter, graphic designer, and printmaker, Juliana discovered block printing in 2014 and has been obsessively carving ever since. For her, the patient processes of carving and layering colors mirrors the feeling she finds in nature – a centering and synchrony with a story far bigger than herself. Through her work, Juliana seeks to offer the same feeling of attunement. Her hope is that viewers might linger, notice, and come away with a deeper familiarity with the living world that surrounds them. She hopes they might better know our earth.

To keep up with her work and learn more about her process, please consider following Juliana on Instagram @knowyourearth_