Art Review Her paintings compress Roman mythology, Italian Renaissance paintings, color relationships, and that moment before disappearance. April 20, 2026 — 3 min read Jule Korneffel, "In Search of Lost Light" (2025), natural pigments, acrylic on canvas (all photos courtesy Spencer Brownstone Gallery) Since I first saw Jule Korneffel’s acrylic and natural pigment paintings at her thesis exhibition at Hunter in 2018, I have watched an increasing gravitas enter her work in debut and subsequent exhibitions at Spencer Brownstone Gallery in 2019 and 2022, and a 2025 group exhibition I curated that included her work.  Korneffel develops a palette for each painting based on research and intuition. She pays particular attention to the paint’s viscosity and its capacity for making distinct kinds of marks. One of the engaging paradoxes of her work is the relationship between austerity and lushness, restraint and declaration.…