Julia Schwadron and Steve Lambert
Bio Information:

Working together since 2006,Julia and Steve have been making signs for locations around NYC. Usually they spend one day each making signs with sentiments they’d like to put out into the world. On the following day they find appropriate homes for the signs. They were both excited to create signs for the city of Brotherly Love.

Julia Schwadron is a painter and amateur sign-maker who grew up in Los Angeles and eventually landed in Brooklyn. In between, Julia received a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California at San Diego in 1998, and earned an M.F.A. in Painting at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2004.

In 2002, Julia was the recipient of the prestigious Jacob Javits Fellowship. As a Javits Fellow, Schwadron travelled to Brussels, Belgium in order to facilitate an exchange and curate a series of exhibitions in conjunction with the Transmedia Postgraduate Program in Art and Design. In November 2007, Julia had a show of new paintings at Spazio 522 Gallery in New York and will be showing her work at Icon Gallery, in Fairfield, Iowa in December.

Julia is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa.

Steve Lambert is a conceptual artist and amateur sign-maker who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and eventually landed in Brooklyn. In between, he dropped out of high school, went on to study sociology, film, and music before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and a Master of Fine Arts degree at University of California in 2006.

Steve founded the outdoor, guerilla art gallery, the Budget Gallery, in 1999 and the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004. Steve’s projects and art works have won awards from Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Belle Foundation, and others. His work has been shown nationally in cities like Detroit, New York, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as internationally in Havana, Canada, Barcelona, and Rotterdam. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as the New York Times, Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek Magazine.

Steve is currently a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York.

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