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The final artist spotlight of the "True Colors" exhibition, featuring Julia Rooney

be sure to see "True Colors" at F+V through tomorrow, and then during the final week of September 1st - 5th. The gallery will be closed August 25th - 28th.

Julia Rooney (b. 1989, New York, NY) is a visual artist who makes paintings and site-specific installations grounded in real space, analog material, and the human body. Sensitive to the increasing dominance of a screen-based world, she creates work rooted in physicality and the bodily perception of one’senvironment, often responding to conditions such as light, scale, texture, and architecture. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Feels Like (2026, Queen Projects, Bellingham, WA), Tilt (2026, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT), Flats (2025, Essex Flowers, NYC), In the weather of it, (Below Grand, NYC), Blueprint (Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA) and Album (2023, Freight+Volume, NYC). She has been awarded residencies and fellowships through The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Yale University Art Gallery and DNA Residency, amidst others. She holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BA in Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard College.

Images:

RGB 05, 2026
Oil, acrylic and gouache on
canvas over wood panel
10 x 10 inches

RGB 07, 2026
Oil, acrylic and gouache
on canvas over wood panel
10 x 10 inches

RGB 16, 2026
Oil, acrylic and gouache on
canvas over wood panel
10 x 10 inches

RGB 10, 2026
Oil, acrylic and gouache on
canvas over wood panel
10 x 10 inches

All works shown are from the RGB series

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Big teeth moment featuring @somehightide and Baby Felix at the opening @kate_werble_gallery

She was teething and I wish I had some kind of squishy teeth stress ball toy for her to hold. She has having a real art connection with this work- she reached her hands out gesturing to touch and squeeze.

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Thank you everyone that joined FREIGHT+VOLUME for the “True Colors” artist talk! We appreciate your attendance and thoughtful reflections on our summer group show and look forward to more events this Fall!

True Colors
Meghan Brady, Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, Paul Sevigny
June 13 – August 22, 2026
Gallery Hours Tue-Sat 11:00-6:00

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Join us tonight, Saturday, August 8th, 6:00–7:30 PM, for a conversation moderated by Saul Ostrow with six of the eight artists in True Colors — Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sorensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, and Cordy Ryman.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments served.

The exhibition's title carries a double reference. First, to Anthony Haden-Guest's legendary "True Colors" column in Vanity Fair — his chronicle of 1980s downtown New York, where glamour, performance, visibility, and hidden dynamics constantly overlapped. Here, though, True Colors still works as a kind of tell-all, but turns its lens on something else: a space where authenticity and performance, mood and structure, surface and revelation fold into one another.

📍 39 Lispenard St., Tribeca, New York, NY 10013

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Thank you to The Brooklyn Rail @brooklynrail and writer Ekin Erkan @ekin_erkan_non_philosophy for the considerate review of “True Colors”! We truly appreciate your observations and selection of our show to share with the wider public in ArtSeen. Link in bio to read the full review.

“True Colors” features work by Meghan Brady, Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, and Paul Sevigny

“FREIGHT+VOLUME’s True Colors summer group show includes the work of eight artists: Meghan Brady, Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, and Paul Sevigny. Although some of the artists have exhibited with the gallery fairly regularly, they do not share any immediately perceptible pictorial-aesthetic approach. Under closer scrutiny, one can espy a broader thematic tendency—one consistent with so-called post-minimal “casualism” or “provisional painting,” a description Raphael Rubinstein applied in 2009 to “works that [intentionally] look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling.” According to Rubinstein, artists working in this manner “deliberately turn away from ‘strong’ painting for something that seems to constantly risk inconsequence or collapse.”

This self-conscious teetering on the borders of inconsequence plays out in various ways, ranging from deliberate unfinishedness (e.g., unpainted or bare expanses of the canvas) to inchoate forms (e.g., indefinite figurative elements or undefined geometric cantons).”

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RGB 06
Oil, gouache and acrylic on canvas over wood panel
10” x 10”
2025-26

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RGB 07
Oil, acrylic and gouache on canvas over wood panel
10” x 10”
2025-26

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HUGE THANK YOU!! to everyone who came to the opening of TRUE COLORS last Sat. I’m especially grateful for all your efforts in being there knowing it was the KNICK’s Championship 🏀 game. Happy Summer, everyone! 👋 ❤️🙏🌻🥰. TRUE COLORS runs through August 29 @freightandvolumegallery

A summer group exhibition featuring 8 artists working in abstraction: thrilled to be exhibiting with these artist!!
Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, Ilses Murdock, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Mary DeVincentis, Meghan Brady, Paul Sevigny .

TRUE COLORS:
Conceived as an antidote to the political turbulence of the present moment, True Colors celebrates the joy of painting, a love of color, and artistic freedom. The title nods to Anthony Haden-Guest’s account of the 1980s New York art world—a moment defined by intensity, experimentation, and creative freedom.

📍 Freight + Volume Gallery 39 Lispenard Street New York, NY 10013 📅 June 13 – July 18.   @cordyrymanstudio @somehightide @mairedev @hart.jai @riad_miah @meghanbrady @ilsesmurdock #paulsevignypainting @freightandvolumegallery

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TRUE COLORS opened Saturday night at Freight + Volume! I forgot to take some snaps with the great group of artists in the show. I was too distracted by the Knicks!! Anyhow, I did get a pic with a glimpse of my caps pieces tucked in the back, figures for scale ; )) TRUE COLORS runs through mid-July. Big thanks to the F + V team for your support of my work!!
🧡💚💛🖤💜💙❤️

Featuring work by Meghan Brady, Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, and Paul Sevigny.

On view June 13-July 18, 2026
39 Lispenard Street.
New York, NY

@freightandvolumegallery

Through distinct material and formal strategies, these conditions circulate within True Colors, shaping the work of the participating artists. Cordy Ryman’s linked wooden constructions make color inseparable from materiality, structure, and residue, while Mary DeVincentis’s psychologically charged compositions hover at the edge of dissolution. Jai Hart’s sewn, stuffed, and densely patterned fabric works push painting toward bodily objecthood. Julia Rooney’s intimate paintings filter abstraction through the visual logic of illuminated screens and digital interfaces, while Ilse Sørensen Murdock’s landscape-derived works suspend color and imagery between immediacy and atmosphere. Riad Miah’s illusionistic shaped canvases compress gesture and process into dense chromatic configurations; Paul Sevigny’s compositional constraints test how little is required for color to generate spatial and structural variation; and Meghan Brady’s cut-paper-like geometries transform color into rhythms, intervals, and movement.

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Cover image:

Salve
Oil on wood, plastic caps, wire
11 x 13 inches
2023

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TRUE COLORS opens this evening at Freight + Volume 6-8:30pm. Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, Ilse Murdock, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Mary DeVincentis and Meghan Brady. An antidote to the political chaos currently rampant on the planet, the exhibition celebrates the pure joy of painting, love of color, and artistic freedom. The title is a nod to Anthony Haden-Guest's narrative of the NY Art world of the 80s, when spirits ran high.

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These were the days my friends..
May 10, 2024 68 Jay St, DUMBO. Grateful for all of you. 🎨❤️

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A trio by @shawoshashaw and an RGB painting by @somehightide cluster around a faint horizon line.

Shaw Osha, The dark months are here like when Mina knows Dracula has arrived, 2025-26

Julia Rooney, RGB 8, 2026

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