Detail from Bullseye (2024), drywall, dimensional lumber, rigid foam insulation, recycled denim, marking paint overspray on cardboard, plaster, locator flag, builder’s chalk, vinyl lettering, 54.5˝ × 48˝ × 4.5˝.
Event Score (2023), Baltic birch plywood, drywall, cardboard, leather, locator flags, artificial flower, PVA primer, dry transfer lettering, 21˝ × 6˝ × 3˝.
Landscape (Return) (2025), yardstick, abraded sandpaper, cyanotype on fabric, wire, cardboard, silk, manila envelope, graphite, cue chalk, 7˝ × 36˝ × 1˝.
What Does the Sky Know? (2023), Baltic birch plywood, cardboard,
plaster, wire, Polaroid, hardware, dry transfer lettering, 13˝ × 7˝ × 6˝.
Bullseye (2024), drywall, dimensional lumber, rigid foam insulation, recycled denim, marking paint overspray on cardboard, plaster, locator flag, builder’s chalk, vinyl lettering, 54.5˝ × 48˝ × 4.5˝. Full artwork on facing page.
Detail of Bullseye (2024), drywall, dimensional lumber, rigid foam insulation, recycled denim, marking paint overspray on cardboard, plaster, locator flag, builder’s chalk, vinyl lettering, 54.5˝ × 48˝ × 4.5˝. Full artwork on facing page.
It Takes Time to Mend Something So Broken (2024), dimensional lumber, birch plywood, drywall, roofing felt, flashing tape, silk locator flag, ripstop nylon, copper wire, staples, dry transfer lettering, 20.5˝ × 8˝ × 9.5˝. Full artwork on facing page.
Detail of It Takes Time to Mend Something So Broken (2024), dimensional lumber, birch plywood, drywall, roofing felt, flashing tape, silk locator flag, ripstop nylon, copper wire, staples, dry transfer lettering, 20.5˝ × 8˝ × 9.5˝. Full artwork on facing page.
Castor and Pollux (2025), Baltic birch plywood, rigid foam insulation, drywall, string,
hardwood, fabric mesh, artificial flowers, vinyl lettering, 10.5˝ × 5.5˝ × 3.5˝.
Moon Ladder (2023), drywall, dimensional lumber, builder’s chalk, marking paint,
latex, PVA primer, graphite, rigid foam insulation, roofing felt, 52˝× 48˝ × 4˝.
Asteroid // Do We Need a Moon? (2023), graphite on paper, drywall, concrete rubble, marking paint, 15˝ × 8˝.
INTRODUCTION
Subwalls is a series of sculptural constructions for the wall created from cast-off construction debris. Wills uses references to architecture, landscape, and the night sky to consider what is visible, what is hidden from view, what we build, and what we take apart. She layers materials such as rigid foam insulation, drywall, and roofing tar in sculptural assemblages, as if the skin of a building were peeled back to show the infrastructure inside. These physical conditions offer a metaphor for the infrastructures that support our often invisible social and psychic systems.
Julie Wills (b. 1974) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, drawing, and text. She studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder (MFA) and the University of Montana (BFA, MA in Art Criticism). Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including an upcoming solo exhibition at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in fall 2026. Wills has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and fellowships and residencies from Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, KORDON, Hambidge, Jentel, and PLAYA, among others. Originally from Colorado, she is based in Baltimore and is an associate professor of studio art at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
Julie Wills (b. 1974) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, drawing, and text. She studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder (MFA) and the University of Montana (BFA, MA in Art Criticism). Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including an upcoming solo exhibition at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in fall 2026. Wills has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and fellowships and residencies from Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, KORDON, Hambidge, Jentel, and PLAYA, among others. Originally from Colorado, she is based in Baltimore and is an associate professor of studio art at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
