Living Rooms: North - Two, with lights, action, 2003-2005
Oil on canvas
32.5" x 23.75"
Courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Julia Fish
The Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award
Living Rooms: North - Two, with lights, action, 2003-2005
Oil on canvas
32.5" x 23.75"
Courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery
In Julia Fish’s recent paintings and drawings, she has translated the familiar colors and geometric forms of her own home into a personal investigation. Her work reflects a visual and architectural history through focusing on the smallest part of what she sees: a section of asphalt siding on her house; or, frost on her window. In her paintings of living rooms, her hope is to articulate “[her] direct experience of familiar, transitional space to further question the subjects, form, and meaning of painting.”
"...developed from the floor-plan of the second-floor apartment. Established as a set, not a series, of images - and painted as if one work in ten parts - the Living Rooms investigated various ways to paint and inscribe inhabited experience: to picture what it means to live within and move through rooms that open onto each other. Each work was sub-titled, for example: Living Rooms: SouthEast - Two, with lights, action, to indicate the physical location of the room, its multiple light sources, and the constancy of movement or repeated actions."
- Julia Fish