Key Themes
Julia Fish: Bound by Spectrum is one of three exhibitions on view at DPAM that include themes of interdisciplinary and personal responses to architecture, geography, and notions of home, presented on the occasion of the Chicago Architectural Biennial. Fish's work comes from slow observation of domestic space and architectural detail and has emerged over decades of examining her home and studio. The paintings depict blueprints, lighting fixtures, stairs, floor panels, tiles and thresholds rendered through the language of abstraction. Colors used relate to a system devised by the artist to denote locations within the building and indicate the cardinal direction of the spaces she references.
Language of Abstraction / Formal Elements of Painting / Observation of Light
Fish's work explores the nuances of color, shape, and line - a concern shared with geometric modernists such as Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers, Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, Alfred Jensen, Sol Lewitt, Jo Baer, Alighiero Boetti, and Mary Heilman. Fish is also focused on the observation of atmospheric light and how the movement of light shifts one's perception. Studying the effects of light continues a tradition of intensive study by painters such as J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet (view Turner's work and Monet's Haystack studies at the Art Institute of Chicago).
Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and LaterCall Number: 709.430946 I91gE1975ISBN: 9780471289302
Goethe's Color TheoryCall Number: 535.6 G599GE
Contemplating Domestic Space
Housing and Dwelling: Perspectives on Modern Domestic ArchitectureCall Number: 728 H82426ISBN: 9780203799673
Threshold Spaces: Transitions in Architecture Analysis and Design ToolsCall Number: e-bookISBN: 9783038214007
Slow Observation
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- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Guide to current literature of architecture and design. Covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations.
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Dates Covered: 1887-present. - Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowUse the OED as a starting point to explore the literal and metaphorical meanings related to painting titles such as threshold, spectrum, transposed, trace, and equinox.
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