Julia Fernandez-Pol (b. St. Louis, Missouri) creates resin-based paintings and sculptural hybrids that transform color and material into luminous strata. Her work examines how layering, pressure, and time shape raw material into enduring form. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Trained as a painter (MFA, Boston University; BFA, Washington University in St. Louis), Fernandez-Pol has developed a multidisciplinary practice that moves fluidly between painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, and printmaking. Her early paintings were constructed through dense pigment, shaped and incised with palette knives and syringes—where paint became sculptural, a medium for building as much as depicting. These works marked the beginning of her exploration of material as structure and the integration of drawing within form.
Over time, her process of layering and revision evolved into a mode of construction: embedding fragments, reworking surfaces, and translating the immediacy of mark-making into physical depth. This approach now informs her resin-based compositions, where matter accumulates and compresses under time and pressure, echoing geological formation and the quiet persistence of existence.