Evening

Julia FishWW-1985-135931

1985·Graphite, with black crayon, on white wove paper·33.4 × 39.1 cm (13 3/16 × 15 7/16 in.)

<p>Chicago-based artist Julia Fish has a particular affinity for working on paper. Over the years, she has created series of drawings in various media that extend her painting ideas but also exist as independent bodies of work. Always focused on her immediate environment, Fish creates drawings based on memories and observations of the conditions in her garden and the physical properties of her house’s interior and exterior. She employs media to evoke—rather than mimic—physicality, touch, and time, as seen here.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1985
Medium: Graphite, with black crayon, on white wove paper
Dimensions: 33.4 × 39.1 cm (13 3/16 × 15 7/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Julia Fish

Artist

Julia Fish

Painting

Julia Fish is an American artist born in 1950 whose practice engages with geometric abstraction and spatial experience. Working across painting, drawing, and installation, she constructs compositions that investigate color relationships, surface, and the viewer's bodily engagement with the work. Her practice develops within the lineage of postwar abstraction, informed by systematic and phenomenological approaches to form.

Toledo, OR, USA

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