Seneca Place Gallery

Located at 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca NY (enter through Hilton Garden Inn front entrance)

Julian Plum, he/him: Page Turns: The Art of Picture Books

Julian Plum is a queer, transmasculine picture book illustrator and author living in Newfield. Working primarily in gouache, his work blends bright colors and warm, tactile brushstrokes. Mostly, Julian's work celebrates our neighbors: the frogs, mice, wood sorrel and mushrooms in our backyards and woods. When he isn't painting, Julian can be found mostly in his garden, negotiating with chipmunks about blueberries.

This show highlights work from his first picture book, Whose Tree Is This?, written by Marilyn Singer and coming out on April 7th from Lerner Books. It was a labor of love and only involved a little bit of a crisis of confidence. His second book, The House That Feels Like Me, is in the final stages of being painted, and comes out with Little, Brown Young Readers in early 2027. It has involved much bigger crises of confidence, but Julian perseveres.