Building 5
Studio 503

My latest work concerns transformation and suffering.As a woman artist working in the newly opened Workhouse Arts Center, my works reflects upon the brave women who were imprisoned here. They were force-fed,put into solitary confinement,and sleep deprived for demanding the right to vote. I often wonder how they awakened to the idea that they deserved basic human rights, in a time where this was considered absurd.
These paintings conbine images of women from that era,portraits of figures in the suffagrette movement,and icons of their oppression and struggle for freedom.These works are created with encaustic. Mixed medua works include real photo postcards from the early 1900's.

Building 5
Studio 503
Julia Dzikiewicz entered this world as an identical twin. She and her twin attended UVA where, despite radically different haircuts, they were often mistaken for each other. Julia attained a Bs(Arch) and, ignoring her father's advice to design greeting cards, began studying at the University of Virginia,the Art League,the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and R&F Paints.
She has exhibited her oil, acrylic, mixed media and encaustic paintings in numerous galleries across the United States.