About

Jessica Jane Julius is a contemporary artist whose work exists in the space between perception and materiality, where language dissolves into gesture and disorder. Engaging glass, installation, performance, and experimental mark-making, her practice destabilizes fixed systems of meaning, exposing the slippages and interruptions that shape our understanding of the world. By embracing the instability of language and material, Julius interrogates how communication is constructed, distorted, and reassembled. Her work resists resolution, inviting viewers into an active process of deciphering and engagement, where meaning is fluid, contingent, and always in flux.

Julius has been dedicated for 20+ years to the arts as an artist, educator, collaborator, and performer. She is currently the Program Head of Glass, Associate Professor at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and the President of the Glass Art Society. She is the co-founder of the artists collective and performance group The Burnt Asphalt Family (2007-25) who produces collaborative participatory works. Their mission is to create community-centric art that meets somewhere at the crossroads between art, craft and design. Their work is a hybrid of a dinner party, a happening and interactive installations. They have performed at prestigious venues across the country including The Corning Museum of Glass, The Chrysler Museum, and Urban Glass. Her mixed media works have been exhibited widely, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Traver Gallery, Heller Gallery, and the Museum of American Glass, NJ. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Glass Quarterly Magazine, and New Glass Review and she is the recipient of the York Cultural Alliance grant and awarded residencies at The Creative Glass Center of America and the Museum of Glass. She earned her BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture and MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Currently she lives in Philadelphia with her partner and son.