Julia Fish
Born 1950 in Toledo, Oregon
Lives and Works in Chicago, Illinois
Julia Fish produces paintings that approach abstraction but in fact derive from the imagery of her home, studio, and garden. Her most recent series, Threshold, comprises six paintings (three of which are on view in 2010) that depict the space between two rooms. In one-to-one scale, the paintings show the surfaces of two floors meeting one another, recreating the exact size of the actual thresholds. In Threshold, SouthWest-Two [spectrum: green], linoleum tile meets wood and stone, framed on either side by the silhouette of doorjambs and an open door. Fish's exploration of transitional space is undertaken with a deliberate attention to color. The carefully applied bracketed areas of paint highlight the central image of the flooring.
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—Frieze (May 1996)
Julia Fish, Lumine II, Northwest [Parhelion], 2009. Oil on canvas
38 × 43 in. (96.5 × 109.2 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy of Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. Photo Credit: Tom Van Eynde / Digital Format: Caroline Young
