Julie Durkin Marty is a painter whose abstract works explore the layered dynamics between human experience and natural systems, drawing particular inspiration from the sea floor, weather patterns, and ecological transformation. Working at the intersection of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, and Graffiti Art, her layered surfaces suggest portals, codes, or maps—gestural fields suspended between chaos and emergence.

Born 1977 in Pennsylvania, she received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues including DADA POST, Holland Tunnel, G-Town Arts, 63 Audubon, GBG Gallery, Mulry Fine Art, and CoLAB Arts, and has been featured in The New York Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Palm Beach Daily News.

Durkin Marty’s practice engages themes of climate anxiety, feminine agency, and hope embedded in the act of mark-making.