Julia “Jul” Suits is an Austin-based artist who has returned to sculpture after decades away.  She received her BFA in Painting from Beloit College in 1980 and her MFA in Sculpture from The Ohio State University in 1985.

Suits’s work in welded steel and glass has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including the Pilchuck School, the Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, the Arc Gallery in Chicago, and a 2-person show with Dale Chihuly at the Kresge Art Gallery at Michigan State University.

An environmental activist, Suits created numerous outdoor installations in the 1980s addressing a variety of issues, including the fragility of the levees in New Orleans; urban herbicide poisoning; global warming and polar ice melt.  These installations, because of their immensity and the use of tons of ice and water, required manpower and materials all funded by grants and donations.

Water, ice, clouds, sky, and astrophysical phenomena are subjects in Suits’s recent works where her materials include steel, tin, copper, plaster, paper, fiber, and glass-like materials.

In addition, Suits is a mother of three grown children, a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, with work featured in The New Yorker, Texas Monthly magazine, and in newspapers world-wide as an editorial illustrator for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles.