"In 1992, Julia Fish and her husband, the sculptor Richard Rezac, moved into a two-story brick storefront on Hermitage Street in Chicago. That same year, she began reflecting on the particulars of the home, designed by Theodore Steuben and built in 1922, starting with the hexagonal tiles in the foyer area connecting the interior to the street. Since those first works, Fish has further transformed the act of looking into an intricate modality that visualizes the interplay of geometry and architecture, wood grain patterning and Johann Sebastian Bach's fugal compositions, prismatic light and musical notes."
"While I have followed Fish's work as closely as possible over the years, and written about it a number of times, I cannot always say that I know what she is trying to do, nor does it matter. It is similar to how I feel when I view the paintings and drawings of Alfred Jensen or read Louis Zukofsky's long poem A or his homophonic translations of Catullus: You go wherever they lead you, not because you immediately know what is going on, but because of the deep, inimitable pleasure of connecting your self-reflective thinking to the external experience of looking or, in Zukofsky's case, reading."
Julia Fish moved into a two-story brick storefront on Hermitage Street in Chicago in 1992 and began examining the home's particulars, including hexagonal foyer tiles and its 1922 design by Theodore Steuben. Her practice transforms focused looking into a method that maps geometry, architecture, wood grain patterning, and prismatic light onto visual forms while referencing Johann Sebastian Bach's fugal structures. The work creates a deep, self-reflective pleasure in connecting thought to the act of seeing. An exhibition titled Transcriptions, Apparitions at David Nolan Gallery presents 25 works across painting, dye-sublimation on metal, hand-stamped drawings, gouache, and ink on paper, with site-related interventions.
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