Cruise Control Contemporary is pleased to announce All Symbols Cast, a new exhibition of work by Julia, opening May 23rd. Living and working in Morro Bay on California’s Central Coast, Julia has developed a practice rooted equally in observation, intuition, and recall. Her paintings emerge through accumulation and erosion at the same time, built slowly through layering, revision, and moments of disappearance that feel inseparable from memory itself. Rather than arriving at fixed images, the works hover somewhere between recognition and dissolution, allowing fragments, marks, and symbols to surface before slipping partially back out of reach.

Over the last year and a half, Julia has maintained an ongoing practice of recording her dreams in what she refers to as her “Dream Bible,” a blank Bible repurposed as a notebook for early morning recollections, symbols, sensations, and unfinished narratives. As preparations for the exhibition began, that process became deeply intertwined with the paintings themselves. The works do not attempt to illustrate dreams literally, but instead operate through a similar logic: connections appear suddenly, emotional clarity arrives in flashes, certain images feel urgent before fading, while unrelated forms quietly collide and coexist without needing resolution.

That rhythm of remembering and losing becomes central to the physical language of the paintings. Surfaces are rubbed back, softened, obscured, and rebuilt. Certain gestures remain vivid while others dissolve almost completely into atmosphere. Julia allows intuition to guide much of the process, resisting the pressure to over explain or overly stabilize meaning. In this way, the paintings behave less like declarations and more like active states of searching, where symbols continuously shift shape depending on proximity, memory, and attention.

Created along the fog heavy coastline of Morro Bay, All Symbols Cast carries the feeling of a practice deeply tied to environment, solitude, and repetition. The exhibition reflects an artist allowing instinct and process to lead, trusting that meaning can emerge through accumulation rather than certainty. What remains are works that feel suspended between dream and document, image and atmosphere, familiarity and something far stranger lingering just underneath it.