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JULIA DAULT

“I don’t believe in the ultimate idea of perfection.”

entertains a dialogue with their materials. For some, the conversation remains covert. For Julia Dault, it becomes the art itself. is one of her latest sculptures in which sheets of Formica and Plexiglas are bent to was her first piece exhibited, the thesis produced in 2008 for her MFA at Parsons School of Design. In 2012, she showed two paintings and a sculpture at the prestigious New Museum Triennial, and soon, the collectors came calling. There are 23 of Dault’s sculptures currently in existence, several of them in permanent collections like those of The Guggenheim in Manhattan, our own AGO, and the Saatchi Gallery in London. Now, after more than a decade in New York, Dault is back in her native Toronto, where she previously worked as an art critic before breaking out to make work of her own professionally.

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