Julia K Burzon
Traditional & Digital Fine Art | Photography
About The Artist
Quick Bio
Julia's work communicates the patterns, relationships, and character that become visible through careful observation and understanding. Her work has been exhibited by Maryland Federation of Art (Annapolis, MD), Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, (BWI Airport, MD) Arlington Arts Alliance (Crystal City,VA), Cultural Center of Cape Cod (South Yarmouth, MA), and several online galleries. Recent press coverage includes The Capital Gazette and Bmore Art.
Full Bio
Julia K. Burzon is a Maryland-based visual artist working across painting, photography, mixed media, and digital art, choosing mediums according to what best serves each project. Julia's work communicates the patterns, relationships, and character that become visible through careful observation and understanding. Although Julia never expected art to provide a practical career, she wanted her education to deepen the way she understood and depicted the world. She therefore studied biology, earning a B.S. in Entomology/Wildlife Conservation with a minor in Photography, followed by an M.S. in Wildlife Biology. Rather than drawing her away from art, science fundamentally shaped how she sees. Understanding transforms perception, and that richer perception, in turn, informs depiction. Her professional career has included scientific illustration, wildlife biology, natural resource management, and small business ownership. Early published illustrations appeared in Iowa State University Wildlife Extension publications and in peer-reviewed physics journals. Throughout these experiences, science and art have remained complementary ways of understanding the world—one seeking explanation, the other communicating what becomes visible through that understanding. After stepping away from art while building a career and raising a family, Julia returned to making art in 2018. In 2021 she completed An Apple A Day, a year-long project creating and publishing a new apple-themed artwork every day. Originally undertaken to learn digital painting, the project evolved into a sustained practice of observation, experimentation, and visual problem-solving, producing hundreds of original works and establishing an approach that continues to move freely among traditional and digital media. Today, Julia works in acrylic, oil, watercolor, photography, digital painting, mixed media, and assemblage. Rather than working within a single style or medium, she selects the visual language each project requires. Whether painting a landscape, interpreting a symbolic subject, or depicting a familiar place, her goal is not simply to reproduce appearance, but to communicate the deeper perception that grows from understanding. Julia's work has been exhibited by the Maryland Federation of Art, Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, Arlington Arts Alliance, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, and other regional and online galleries. Her work has received multiple awards and has been featured in The Capital Gazette and BmoreArt. She lives and works in Crofton, Maryland.
About The Art
Artist Statement
I create visual art that invites the viewer to see the world in greater resolution by sharing what becomes visible to me through careful observation and understanding.
My experience is that understanding transforms perception. When one changes, so does the other. The more we understand the world, the richer and more detailed our experience of it becomes. Learning to identify trees transformed anonymous patches of green into individual living things with distinct forms, histories, and relationships. Learning birdsong changed background noise into a language of familiar individuals. The world itself did not change, but my perception of it did—and with it, my experience of the world. Understanding increases the resolution at which I experience reality. I am interested in the patterns, relationships, and character that become visible when we look carefully and seek to understand rather than simply recognize. Art is the medium through which I share what becomes visible to me through that process. My hope is not to teach or explain, but to invite others to experience familiar subjects through a different way of seeing. Science has been an important part of my development as an artist. Although I never expected art to be a practical career, I wanted my education to deepen the way I understood the world I hoped to depict. Studying biology fundamentally changed the resolution of my world. Anatomy, ecology, behavior, and natural history all contribute to the way I perceive a landscape, an animal, or even an imagined subject. Understanding informs depiction. I am interested not only in how something looks, but in why it is the way it is. Its structure, relationships, and character all contribute to what I think of as its "it-ness." Even when working imaginatively, I want a subject to possess an internal coherence that grows from understanding rather than surface appearance. Because each project asks different questions, I don't limit myself to a single medium or style. Instead, I choose the visual language that best communicates what I want to share. Some ideas require paint. Others are better served by photography, digital painting, collage, assemblage, or mixed media. The medium is not the destination; it is part of the conversation. Play is equally important to my process. Play is a biological imperative that positively reinforces learning. Children discover physics, language, relationships, cause and effect, and themselves by experimenting with the world through play. Artistic experimentation is a continuation of that same process. Whether learning a new medium, combining materials, or simply enjoying the physical act of "pushing the paint around," play remains one of the most effective ways to learn. It is not a distraction from serious work—it is one of the mechanisms through which serious work happens. My work spans many subjects because I am interested in understanding many things. Landscapes, portraits, symbolic imagery, found objects, photography, and digital media all become opportunities to look more closely and discover relationships that might otherwise go unnoticed. Each project teaches me something, and each becomes an opportunity to share that understanding visually. Every new work is another chance to increase the resolution of my own experience of the world and to offer that perspective to someone else. If a viewer leaves my work having noticed something they might otherwise have overlooked—or seeing a familiar subject in a richer, more connected way—that, to me, is success.
ART EXHIBITIONS
2026 (3)
Maryland Federation of Art (Maryland Hall), Annapolis, MD, USA Exhibition Website:
And Then They Came For Me. 18x20 inches, mixed media on canvas panel
Paint Annapolis, Public Artist, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Pop-up Gallery) Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart.com/paintannapolis
The Governor’s Hydrangeas. 12x14 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Pistachio Place. 7x8 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Pink Speaker Paint-out, 7x8 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) Art Show, Juror: Catharine Love
JHUAPL Women’s Club (Kossiakoff Center) Laurel, MD, USA
Surprise Squadron, 6x11 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Award: 3rd Place, Art
2025 (6)
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) Art Show, Juror: Catharine Love
JHUAPL Women’s Club (Kossiakoff Center), Laurel, MD, USA
Birds’ Eye View, 12x10 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Award: 1st Place, Overall
Paint Annapolis, Public Artist, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Pop-up Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Sidewalk Surprise, 14x19 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Award: 3rd Place, Art On The Avenue (Public Artists) 2025
Sicut Cervus (McDowell Hall, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD), 15x19 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Roof Party, 10x13 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
At Play, Juror: Lyndon Barrois, Jr.
Maryland Federation of Art (Curve Gallery, online), Annapolis, MD, USA
Wildfire, 18x24 inches, mixed media on paper
Mélange II, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
6 artworks exhibited in group show
2024 (13)
Light and Shadow, Juror: Leah Triplett Harrington
Maryland Federation of Art (Curve Gallery, online), Annapolis, MD, USA
Beyond, 16x20 inches, archival print of digital photograph
After Dark, Juror: Crista Pisano
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Under The Light Of The Moon, 12x15 inches, archival print of digital photograph
Elemental: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Juror: Tim Jaeger
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
The Lottery, 14x17 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Time To Go, 10x23 inches, archival print of digital photograph
The Changing Americas, Juror: Chan Chao
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Second Story: McGarvey’s Dockside Dining By The Park, 10x14 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Be Square, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall), Annapolis, MD, USA
Dare To Believe You Are Beautiful, 10x10 inches, inkjet print of digital painting
Art In Abstraction, Juror: Filipe Assuncao
Maryland Federation of Art (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall), Annapolis, MD, USA
Con-tagion/-finement, 24x27 inches, giclée print of digital painting
Paint Annapolis, Public Artist, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Pop-up Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
St. Mary’s Steeple, 8x10 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Flowers Before The Storm, 7x10 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Field House Flowers, 12x22 inches, acrylic on canvas
Community 24, Juried
AND Creative, Maryland Federation of Art (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall), Annapolis, MD, USA
Summit (E. Atlantic Dune Crossing, Fenwick Island, DE), 14x23 inches, watercolor and acrylic ink on paper
Our American Soul, Juror: Robert Yi
Arlington Arts Alliance (Gallery Underground), Arlington, VA, USA
Mind The Glass, 20x26 inches, digital painting on metallic paper
Street Scenes, Juror: J. Susan Isaacs
Maryland Federation of Art (Curve Gallery, online), Annapolis, MD, USA
Juxtaposition, 8x10 inches, giclée print of digital photograph
Mélange I, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
12 artworks exhibited in group show
Digital Directions, Juror: Lawrence Acadias
Maryland Federation of Art (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall), Annapolis, MD, USA
Epidemiologue, 27x24 inches, giclée print of digital painting
Apposition, 8x10 inches, sublimation print on aluminum
BWI Exhibit 38: Winter Around The World, Juried
Arts Council of Anne Arundel County (BWI Departures), Baltimore, MD, USA
Follow The White Rabbit, 16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
2023 (5)
Spring Member Show, Juror: David Carter
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
PomPom (Study 1), 11x25 inches, mixed media on paper
Mélange II, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
12 artworks exhibited in group show
Paint Annapolis, Public Artist, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Pop-up Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
She Left, 10x12 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
The Witness, 20x16 inches, acrylic ink on paper
After Hours, 12x22 inches, acrylic on canvas
Digital Directions, Juror: Jeff Murphy
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Herman’s New Gig, 11x14 inches, giclée print of digital painting
Lowe House Exhibition, Juror: Laura Pasquini
Maryland Federation of Art (Lowe House Office Building), Annapolis, MD, USA
Summit (E. Atlantic Dune Crossing, Fenwick Island, DE), 14x23 inches, watercolor and acrylic ink on paper
2022 (4)
BWI Exhibit 35: Bright Skies, Juried
Arts Council of Anne Arundel County (BWI Departures), Baltimore, MD, USA
The Lottery, 16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Small Wonders, Juror: John Morrell
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Juneteenth Harvest at Middle Plantation (Davidsonville, MD), 3x4 inches, acrylic on canvas
Paint Annapolis, Public Artist, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Pop-up Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Down Time, 5x13 inches, acrylic on canvas
Chlöe Lives Here, 13x5 inches, acrylic on canvas
Hats In The Belfry, 16x12 inches, mixed media on paper
BWI Exhibit 34: Imagine, Juried
Arts Council of Anne Arundel County (BWI Departures), Baltimore, MD, USA
Mind The Glass, 22x26 inches, digital painting on metallic paper
2021 (6)
Others Will Love, Others Will Hate, Juried
HMVC Gallery (online), New York, NY, USA
Welcome Home 3 (James C. Dodd, architect, Sacramento, CA), 24x30 inches, mixed media on paper
American Landscapes, Juror: Al Gury
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Summit (E. Atlantic Dune Crossing, Fenwick Island, DE), 14x23 inches, watercolor and acrylic ink on paper —
Award: Honorable Mention
Digital Directions, Juror: Jonathan Monaghan
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Flow, 8x10 inches, giclée print of digital painting
Here Comes The Sun, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Curve Gallery, online), Annapolis, MD, USA
Breaking Through: Annapolis from Eastport, 15x19 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Award: People’s Choice Award
Rising Tides, Juror: Steve Doherty
Maryland Federation of Art (Curve Gallery, online), Annapolis, MD, USA
Second Story: McGarvey’s Dockside Dining By The Park, 10x14 inches, acrylic on canvas panel
Eye Of The Beholder, Juror: Jim Condron
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Char: A Depression Warrior’s 15-year Campaign Diary, found object assemblage
2020 (2)
Small Wonders, Juror: Linda Crocker Simmons
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Herman Takes A Ride, 7x8 inches, giclée print of digital painting
Mid-Fall Member Madness, Not Juried
Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Delicious Reflections, 10x12 inches, acrylic on canvas panel