Threshold SouthEast--Two [ spectrum : orange with grey ]

Painting

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Threshold SouthEast--Two [ spectrum : orange with grey ]

Entry/Object ID

2019.11

Description

Muted abstract pattern against light blue texture, bracketed by two irregular shapes in pale beige

Artwork Details

Medium

transfer chalk with oil on canvas

Context

For three decades, Chicago-based artist Julia Fish has used her house and its vernacular architecture— a 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. Rendering architectural details at actual size and from observation, she creates a subjective response to objective information, informed by effects of light in space, time of day, the seasons, cardinal direction, and her own physical vantage point. The Threshold works and related series, made between 2009 and the present, more than depicting a specific object or site engage with questions about the idea of the threshold. The paintings are each identified by a color from the spectrum, though all six colors are embedded within the structural lines of each painting. Threshold, SouthEast – Two [ spectrum : orange with grey ], is bracketed by irregular shapes on the left and right, which are created by the doors and doorjambs. In this series the thresholds mark an entry and an exit and are oriented such that the artist’s body and the imagined body of the viewer are already within the heart of the home: these paintings map a literal path of movement, but their work truly begins as a threshold of consciousness for both artist and viewer.

Acquisition

Accession

2019.11

Source or Donor

Dia S. Weil, Edward S. Weil, Melissa Weber, Jay Dandy, Scott J. Hunter

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Museum purchase and restricted gift of Dia S. Weil and Edward S. Weil Jr., Melissa Weber and Jay Dandy, and Scott J. Hunter

Made/Created

Artist

Julia Fish

Date made

2010 - 2014

Ethnography

Notes

American Chicago

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

Verso; vertical wood panel

Transcription

[Object info from David Nolan NY]

Notes

Inscription Type: Gallery label sticker

Location

Verso; BR

Transcription

[Artists signature] [Title] [dates]

Notes

Inscription Type: Graphite?

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Hierarchy Name

Color (hierarchy name), Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Physical Attributes Facet, Associated Concepts Facet

Concept

orange colors, chromatic colors, colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors), home (concept), place, environmental psychology concepts, psychological concepts, social science concepts

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall; CANVAS

Width

38 in

Length

23 in

Exhibition

Julia Fish: bound by spectrum