Julia Fish: bound by spectrum - Hardcover

This exhibition catalog, Julia Fish: bound by spectrum, presents a fully-illustrated survey of the last decade of Fish&;s paintings and works on paper. It offers new scholarship around Fish&;s ongoing project that brings together the disciplines of painting, drawing, and architecture. For three decades, Fish has used her house and its vernacular architecture&;a Chicago storefront workspace designed by Theodore Steuben in 1922&;as the basis for a system of mapping color, form, and light in paintings and works on paper. Working from close observation, she renders architectural details at actual size and creates a dialog between objective information and subjective response. These works are informed by effects of light in space, time of day, the seasons, cardinal direction, and the artist&;s own physical vantage point. Accompanying the images of Fish&;s works are essays by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Kate Nesin, and Colm Tóibín, images and text by architect Dan Wheeler, and a selection of the artist&;s studio notations.