Julia Maiuri: Eaves
03.29.25 - 05.03.25
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12.26 is pleased to present Eaves, Julia Maiuri’s new body of work highlighting exterior architectures, intimate interiors, and the human figure depicted in film.
Maiuri’s paintings are unmistakably her own—layered, atmospheric, and evocative. Drawing on cinematic techniques like dissolves and mind screens, she captures the passage of time, subtle movements, and moments of introspection, allowing figures to slip between reality and reverie.
In Eaves, architecture becomes a parallel to film. The eaves of a house—the overhanging edges of a roof—offer shelter, much like cinema provides a space for projection and self-reflection. Maiuri returns, in dreams, to the homes of her past, only to find them unfamiliar, transformed. She, too, is different—older now. This uncanny sensation lingers in works like New House and Lying Down, where ghostly figures recede into the background while a translucent female head remains alert yet at rest in the foreground. These characters, like Maiuri herself, return home only to find both place and self irreversibly changed.
Considering the figure as architecture, Maiuri extends this interplay between figure and structure throughout the series. Some characters appear to merge with their surroundings: a colossal nude form leans against the pitch of a roof in Next o Kin, and a nose effortlessly transforms into a spire in Three Houses; facial contours outline the profile of homes in Marian’s Eave, Tower, High Eaves, and Lying Down.
Film is a constant presence in Maiuri’s work. For Eaves, she draws from an array of movies spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. Walkthrough layers stills from Manhunter (1986), while Three Houses interweaves moments from Inferno (1980), Badlands (1973), and Summer wit Monika (1953), creating compositions that feel at once fragmented and whole. These cinematic references deepen the narrative of her paintings, expanding the interior lives of their subjects. References in Eaves include stills from films such as Summer with Monika (1953), The Possessed (1965), Writte
in the Wind (1956), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Let’s Scar Jessica to Death (1971), Badlands (1973), The Stepfor Wives (1975), Burnt Offerings (1976), Inferno (1980), Next of Kin (1982), Manhunter (1986), and The Bedroom Window (1987).
Julia Maiuri (b. 1991, Michigan) currently lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 2022 and her BFA from Wayne State University in Detroit in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include Workplace, London, UK (2023); Make Room, Los Angeles, CA (2023); 12.26, Dallas, TX (2022); The Porch Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2021); Wreath, Decatur, GA (2018), among others. Recent group exhibitions include Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2025 and 2024); TOA Presents, Cody, WY (2024); Martha’s, Austin, TX (2024); Workplace, London, UK (2024); Make Room, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY (2022); MAMOTH, London, U.K. (2022); False Cast Gallery @ BRUCE, Los Angeles, CA (2021); MAW, New York City, NY (2017). Her work has been featured in Dazed Digital, Art Review, Art Maze Mag, Artsy, Floorr Magazine, and WOPOZI. Maiuri also received the Artist Initiative Grant in Visual Art from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2018.
Maiuri’s paintings are unmistakably her own—layered, atmospheric, and evocative. Drawing on cinematic techniques like dissolves and mind screens, she captures the passage of time, subtle movements, and moments of introspection, allowing figures to slip between reality and reverie.
In Eaves, architecture becomes a parallel to film. The eaves of a house—the overhanging edges of a roof—offer shelter, much like cinema provides a space for projection and self-reflection. Maiuri returns, in dreams, to the homes of her past, only to find them unfamiliar, transformed. She, too, is different—older now. This uncanny sensation lingers in works like New House and Lying Down, where ghostly figures recede into the background while a translucent female head remains alert yet at rest in the foreground. These characters, like Maiuri herself, return home only to find both place and self irreversibly changed.
Considering the figure as architecture, Maiuri extends this interplay between figure and structure throughout the series. Some characters appear to merge with their surroundings: a colossal nude form leans against the pitch of a roof in Next o Kin, and a nose effortlessly transforms into a spire in Three Houses; facial contours outline the profile of homes in Marian’s Eave, Tower, High Eaves, and Lying Down.
Film is a constant presence in Maiuri’s work. For Eaves, she draws from an array of movies spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. Walkthrough layers stills from Manhunter (1986), while Three Houses interweaves moments from Inferno (1980), Badlands (1973), and Summer wit Monika (1953), creating compositions that feel at once fragmented and whole. These cinematic references deepen the narrative of her paintings, expanding the interior lives of their subjects. References in Eaves include stills from films such as Summer with Monika (1953), The Possessed (1965), Writte
in the Wind (1956), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Let’s Scar Jessica to Death (1971), Badlands (1973), The Stepfor Wives (1975), Burnt Offerings (1976), Inferno (1980), Next of Kin (1982), Manhunter (1986), and The Bedroom Window (1987).
Julia Maiuri (b. 1991, Michigan) currently lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 2022 and her BFA from Wayne State University in Detroit in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include Workplace, London, UK (2023); Make Room, Los Angeles, CA (2023); 12.26, Dallas, TX (2022); The Porch Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2021); Wreath, Decatur, GA (2018), among others. Recent group exhibitions include Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2025 and 2024); TOA Presents, Cody, WY (2024); Martha’s, Austin, TX (2024); Workplace, London, UK (2024); Make Room, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY (2022); MAMOTH, London, U.K. (2022); False Cast Gallery @ BRUCE, Los Angeles, CA (2021); MAW, New York City, NY (2017). Her work has been featured in Dazed Digital, Art Review, Art Maze Mag, Artsy, Floorr Magazine, and WOPOZI. Maiuri also received the Artist Initiative Grant in Visual Art from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2018.