List of products by brand Julie Wolfe
Julie Wolfe was born in 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
EDUCATION
1986 BFA Painting and Art History, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Direct Daylight, Amélie Maison d'Art, New York, NY
2023
Julie Wolfe, HPGRP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Opposing Forces, HEMPHILL, Washington DC
2021
Arranging Proximity, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2020
Dreamfields, HEMPHILL Artwork, Washington, DC
2019
Under Their Gaze, We Become Creatures, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2018
Before and After Now, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017
Quest for a Third Paradise, The American University Museum, Washington, DC
2016
Julie Wolfe: The Language of the Birds, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2015
Green Room 11, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, DE
Julie Wolfe: Green Room, Hemphill @ 1700 L Street, Washington, DC
2014
Meta, Public Art Commission, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
2013
Julie Wolfe: Rewilding, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2010
Julie Wolfe, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Window installation, Barneys New York, New York, NY
2009
Surface Tension, Mu Project, Washington, DC
2000
Faith Ringgold interactive installation, San Diego Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
1994
Elements of Devotion, Concordia University, Irvine, CA
1993
New Juice in Orange County, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Lanconica Biennial, Radvila Palace Museum of Art and Pamenkalnio, Vilnius, Lithiania (forthcoming)
2021
The Color of Light: Utopian Abstractions, Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, LV (forthcoming)
2020
Unbound 2020, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Natura, Amelie Maison d’Art, Paris, FR
2019
Full Bleed, National Gallery of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Overlooked, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
Creative Energy for Peace, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY
2017
System Adjustment, AGA LAB. Amsterdam, NL
United States Embassy, US Department of State, Bratislava, SVK
2014
Body Boundaries, Radiator Arts, Long Island City, NY
Total View, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, DE
2013
Curio, Heiner Contemporary, Washington, DC
REPRESENT, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Artist-Citizen, Washington DC, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Colors per la Planeta, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, FR; Namur, BE; Strasbourg, DE
Colors of the Planet, Andorran National Commission for UNESCO (CNAU). Additionally traveled to UNESCO Offices in Venice, Vienna, Paris, and Tokyo
2011
DC Fine Art Photography Fair, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
(e)merge art fair, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Network, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
2009
Art in Embassies, US Department of State, United States Embassy, Sofia, BG; Paris, FR
Art in Embassies, US Department of State, UNESCO, Paris, FR
2006
Botanical Treasures of Lewis and Clark, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2005
Faculty and staff exhibition, Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, DC
1997
Group exhibition (juror: Audrey Flack), Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
Wolfe, Ansel, Nelson, Rhino Art Company, Solana Beach, CA
1996
Tapestry showcase, The National Textile Museum, Washington DC
1994
Virgins, Whores, Witches and Saints, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC Capital One, McLean, VA
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Georgetown University Library Art Collection, Washington, DC
Hogan Lovells, LLP, Washington, DC
Meta Open Arts, Washington, DC
MicrosoftArt Collections
National Gallery of Art Library,Washington DC
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, DC
UNESCO Residence Collection, Paris, France
United States Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria; Paris, France; Quito, Ecuador
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Courtauld Institute of Art Library, London, UK
George Eastman House Library, Rochester NY
Martin Luther King Memorial Museum Library, Washington DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art Library, NewYork, NY MUUS Collection Library, Tenafly, NJ
National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC New York Public Library, New York, NY
SELECTED REVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS
2019
Jenkins, Mark. “In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past.” The Washington Post (November 8, 2019)
Jenkins, Mark. “In the galleries: An exhibition that draws attention to overlooked issues.” The Washington Post (August 23, 2019)
2018
Michelli, Thomas. “Hand Copying the Constitution. And Other Responses to Trump.” Hyperallergic (July 7, 2018)
Gavish, Michael. “Systems of Color with Julie Wolfe.” Sciart Magazine 32 (August 2018)
2017
Voon, Claire. “Abstracting the Data of the Natural World with Colorful Geometries.” Hyperallergic (March 1, 2017)
2016
Capps, Kriston. “’Julie Wolfe: The Language of the Birds’ at Hemphill Fine Arts, Reviewed.” Washington City Paper (May 19, 2016)
Coplan, Tina. “Point of Reference.” Home & Design Magazine (January/February 2016): p. 150-153
2015
McKenna, William. “Green Room: A colourful political statement about water (Julie Wolfe).” BBC World News America (November 4, 2015)
Jenkins, Mark. “Water Colors Leave a Mark.” The Washington Post (December 4, 2015)
2013
May, Stephen. “Reviews: Julie Wolfe.” ARTnews Magazine (Summer Issue)
O’Sullivan, Michael. “Gallery opening of the week: ‘Julie Wolfe: Rewilding.’” The Washington Post (March 21, 2013)
2011
Exhibition catalogue, Quito Ecuador: Art Collection of the United States Embassy
2009
Exhibition catalogue, U.S. Mission to the OECD, Art in Embassies, Paris, FR
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2018-19
Resident, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2018
Resident, AGA Lab, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Resident, Two Coats of Painting, Brooklyn, NY
Public art commission, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2016-17
Contributing Editor, The Studio Visit online journal
2014
Public art commission, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
Resident, Takt Academy, Berlin, DE
2012
Resident, UNESCO-sponsored study of sustainable energy, AND
2011
Artist-in-Residence, Art in the Embassies/Sincha Satcha Foundation, Quito, EC
2006-07
Faculty, Metalsmithing, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
2004-06
Lab Technician/Adjunct Instructor, Jewelry Department, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
1996-2000
Artist-in-Residence, San Diego Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños, San Diego, CA
Julie Wolfe is a multimedia artist whose work visualizes the diffuse, the immaterial, and the invisible. Wolfe’s intuitive artistic process develops an emergent language of form, probing the depths of collective consciousness while engaging individual viewers uniquely and subjectively. Synesthetic associations of colour and shape demonstrate the slippage between different modes of communication, making meaning out of chance and play as well as deconstructing traditional aesthetic conventions. Her practice approaches impermanence, uncertainty, and tension (formal, political, or interpersonal) as tools rather than obstacles. Distinct series are conceptually linked, taking up similar problems and exploring them in new material ways.
Though her art is grounded in real referents as diverse as environment degradation, human communication, and scientific data, the resulting works expand into new realms and modes of perception, taking the form of imaginary landscapes and fundamentally unreal spaces. The positive is balanced with the negative: the aesthetic with the destructive, the natural with the human, and the image with the abstract. Though not necessarily depicted in harmonious union, opposing forces are explored as equally meaningful.
Wolfe’s practice is just as much about seeing as it is about creating. Self-reflexive projects like a photographic archive of eyes consider all that shapes visual experience while dizzying, radial paintings point to the illusory nature of art. Such art makes the intangible tangible and legible in a different, material way, though it is neither purely didactic nor prescriptive: be they photographs, drawings, sculptural structures, large abstract paintings, or wall installations. Wolfe’s work encourages its viewers to contemplatively meditate, on their own terms and within their own frame of reference, on that which confronts them. Wolfe asks her spectator, through her work, what data is meaningful and what isn’t? What if we could appreciate the infinitely more complex systems that thrive in our natural world? How can we relate to one another and forge a shared horizon? Julie Wolfe ultimately invites us to examine our simultaneous particularity and generality as well as the ways that visual art can unite us as sensing, perceiving creatures.
