Julie L. Green

Julie Lynn Green (22 September 1961 – 12 October 2021) was an American artist known for making paintings about food, fashion, and capital punishment.

They spent half of each year on their work, The Last Supper, a series of 1000 plates, illustrating final meals of U.S. death row inmates.

[10] “Last Supper” is a large-scale installation of 1000 plates painted with images of food and words in cobalt blue that depict the final meal requests of the U.S. Death Row Inmates.

Meanwhile, they are reminding people about the imperfection of our current justice system.. Chadd Scott wrote down in his article: "Examples like this demonstrate how the seemingly more hopeful nature of First Meal artworks can, in fact, be more heartbreaking than the stories shared in The Last Supper.

Years, in some cases decades, stolen from innocent people, the prime of their lives spent locked away by a criminal justice system still rife with prejudice and inequity.

[1] A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Green won the 2015 ArtPrize 3-D Juried Award and a 2016 Oregon Arts Commission Fellow.