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Julia Fish
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Julia Fish abstracts observed realities in her oil on stretched canvas works. Her paintings compress snippets of sky seen over different seasons from her studio window or mosaic tile patterns in her doorway, creating a tension between representation and abstraction. Fish’s works are personal and intriguing yet they avoid narrative. Her paintings demonstrate that looking closely (which artists like Dan Douke, Peter Dreher, Catherine Murphy and Sylvia Plimack Mangold also do) can render mundane things mysterious. Fish’s close attention to detail demonstrates that there is more to ordinary objects or scenes that are part of everyday life.
The artist’s work has been presented in twenty-six solo exhibitions since 1980, and was the subject of a ten-year survey exhibition,
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, at The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago. National and international exhibitions include, among others: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MAK Center for Art and Architecture / Schindler House in Los Angeles, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Galerie Remise in Bludenz, Austria, the Whitney Biennial, MCA Chicago. A selected survey of Fish’s work of the current decade is scheduled for the DePaul Art Museum, in Chicago. Paintings and works on paper are included in the …
Julia Fish abstracts observed realities in her oil on stretched canvas works. Her paintings compress snippets of sky seen over different seasons from her studio window or mosaic tile patterns in her doorway, creating a tension between representation and abstraction. Fish’s works are personal and intriguing yet they avoid narrative. Her paintings demonstrate that looking closely (which artists like Dan Douke, Peter Dreher, Catherine Murphy and Sylvia Plimack Mangold also do) can render mundane things mysterious. Fish’s close attention to detail demonstrates that there is more to ordinary objects or scenes that are part of everyday life.
The artist’s work has been presented in twenty-six solo exhibitions since 1980, and was the subject of a ten-year survey exhibition,
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, at The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago. National and international exhibitions include, among others: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MAK Center for Art and Architecture / Schindler House in Los Angeles, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Galerie Remise in Bludenz, Austria, the Whitney Biennial, MCA Chicago. A selected survey of Fish’s work of the current decade is scheduled for the DePaul Art Museum, in Chicago. Paintings and works on paper are included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Denver Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Illinois State Museum in Springfield. Her work is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and David Nolan Gallery in New York.
Born 1950
Hometown Toledo, OR
Lives and Works Chicago, IL
Education
MFA, MICA/Maryland Institute, College of Art – Mt. Royal School of Painting, Baltimore, MD, 1982
BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art / Museum Art School, Portland, OR, 1976
Permanent Collection
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Denver Art Museum, CO
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
University of Chicago Booth Collection, Chicago, IL
The Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL
The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Works Available for Purchase
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