Georgetown, CT — G-Town Arts is pleased to present Ocean in Space, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Julie Durkin Marty, curated by Katerina Lanfranco. The exhibition opens Saturday, September 13, with a reception from 4 to 6 PM, and remains on view through October 18, 2025.

In this body of work, Durkin Marty draws on gestural mark-making and speculative cartography to navigate the space between interior life and natural systems. Developed over three years, the paintings accumulate through layered gesture and expansive atmospheric color, tracing what might be understood as a psychic geography: the place where the personal and the environmental press against one another and blur. Source images drawn from the ocean floor, deep space, meteorological charts, and geological transformation inform compositions that refuse the stillness of the image, pulsing instead with pressure, luminosity, and latent motion.

The works resist fixed meaning. They hover — between legibility and dissolution, between sediment and storm, between deep time and the immediate present. In doing so, they invite prolonged looking, rewarding viewers who are willing to remain inside their productive instability. Memory, perception, and place are not illustrated here but enacted, unraveling and reconstituting across the surface of each panel.

Ocean in Space marks Julie Durkin Marty's first solo presentation at G-Town Arts. Lanfranco, herself an artist and curator and former Chief Curator at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, brings a discerning eye to the selection and framing of these works.

Julie Durkin Marty lives and works in Redding, Connecticut. She holds an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Her work has been exhibited at DADA POST (Berlin and USA), Holland Tunnel Gallery, GBG Gallery, Mulry Fine Art, and G-Town Arts, among other venues. She maintains an active curatorial practice with a sustained commitment to interdisciplinary exchange and community.