Julia Firestone Callis, a painter and poet born and raised and based in Detroit, Michigan. She constructs paintings by intertwining personal events and interactions through a nonlinear thought process. Objects float, disintegrate and re-appear, transformed through abstraction and given new context through Julia’s own poems and personal idioms. Each composition is treated as sacred.

Julia as held solo exhibitions, which always have such enigmatic titles, for example, “Dinner at the Fauvist Slum,” at Popps Emporium, in Hamtramck, 2017, Bread and Clutter at public pool in Hamtramck, 2018, and the Blue Solider, at Klemm Gallery, 2019, in which Julia imagines herself as a tongue-less blue whale.

Her work is currently on display at MOCAD as a part of a 40 person group show called Dual Vision.