Ursula Gullow is a visual artist whose practice spans classical painting, drawing, and craft methodologies. She grew up in New York State and earned a BA in Sociology from the State University of New York at New Paltz (1994) and an MFA in Studio Art from East Tennessee State University (2024). Notable venues for her work include The Asheville Art Museum (2019) and the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh (2022). Her social engagement project One is a Crowd was produced and installed over two months at Artspace in Raleigh, NC (2017). She was a resident artist at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts in 2021 and is a recipient of several prestigious awards including the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund’s Money for Women Artists Grant (2020).

Over the years, Gullow has developed multiple series based on crowds, landscape, portraiture, and narrative subject matter. Her most recent work expands painting into soft sculpture and installation. She embraces the decorative arts as a potent space for meaning and seeks to re-frame the female presence in Western art. “My artwork teases the traditional notion of painting through the manipulation of imagery, substrates, and frames. I formulate new ways of experiencing paintings by taking them off the wall, giving them a three-dimensional form, or adapting them into community projects."

Ursula Gullow is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC.

"Her most recent series of work showcases her talent for combining the abstract and the representational - accessibility with visual intrigue." Joanne O'Sullivan, BoldLife Magazine

"The images are emotionally arresting, flecked by joy but shadowed by something decidedly uneasy." Melanie Bianchi, Verve Magazine

"Every brushstroke crescendos with energy. Her color choices are vibrant, her narratives open-ended." Connie Bostic, Mountain Xpress

"The finest of her work is simultaneously folksy, epic, and quietly revolutionary." Douglas Vuncannon, Indyweek.com