A "HAREM" art exhibit, in a FANTASY space. Julie Schachter art includes 50 years of paintings, drawings, and pinhole photographs.

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Here’s what. my wife had to say about her collection of paintings, now offered in high-quality prints. Most artworks are represented in a survey I wrote entitled, “THE ART OF JULIE SCHACHTER––50 Years of Sculptures, Paintings, and Drawings, 1972-2022.

A Brief Introduction

Welcome to my shop! The first works I am offering here (so far) were done after I moved from the lush, green West Coast of America to Northern New Mexico.

The "slinky" cups in “High Desert Tea” were actually painted my last year in California, but I couldn't decide what the background should be. Once I arrived at my new high desert home, the background suggested itself.

“HIGH DESERT TEA,”Slinky Cups” with rattlesnake and mesa”), a 14"x17" giclee print ©2025 Julie Schachter.

I suppose the Jumping Chollas (below) reflect the buoyancy I gained from my new southwest surroundings. Living in our rural area required walking down to a little village to pick up our mail every few days, and all along the side of the road grew old cholla cacti, thriving, though untended by anyone. The texture of the dead branches of these plants was irresistible to me. I had great fun fashioning a few of them into my cholla man, which provided a model for the paintings in that series.

“Jumping Cholla 2” - Original quirky Southwest desert themed oil painting of joyfully jumping cactus figures, as an archival print. ©2025 Julie Schachter.

“Jumping Cholla 3,” ©2025 Julie Schachter.

I will soon be listing earlier works from my time in both Northern California and the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. The “Glaciology Series,” completed shortly after I left the West Coast, was prompted by both a concerned awareness of melting ice caps and my appreciation of the coastal places in which I'd lived for so many years. These more abstract images were a departure for me from the realistically rendered compositions I had previously done. Oceans of blue on a wall can be very soothing when you live in an arid place!

Two paintings––”Glaciology Series, ©2025 Julie Schachter” (see below) excerpted from “THE ART OF JULIE SCHACHTER.”

Before I painted any of these pictures, in the years right after art school* I concentrated on pinhole photography. I enjoyed creating my own handmade cameras, sometimes using common objects using common objects to capture images of what they would "see" around them.

“Not Out of the Woods Yet” (Excerpted from the book,“BLACK BOXES,” ©2013 Julie Schachter). .

“MISALIGNED WORLD,” ©2025 JULIE SCHACHTER.

Actually, it's a little ironic that I've gone from using lens-less cardboard camera obscuras to employing the most modern photographic technologies we have today (for duplicating artworks on giclee prints).

“Lesbian Lizards or Parthenogenic Spring and the Fall of Patriarchy,” ©2025 Julie Schachter.

Though I have a fondness for the dreamy, vintage look of pinhole pictures, I am very pleased that our modern digital cameras and giclee printers have made it possible for me to share my work with you.

Julie

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