The Beholder | Julie Wolfe x PAN
Book Event & Signing
HEMPHILL Artworks
November 23, 2024
11 am
HEMPHILL is pleased to announce Julie Wolfe's newest publication in collaboration with Pan & The Dream, The Beholder. Please join us on Saturday, November 23, 2024, for the book event & signing with artist, Julie Wolfe.
The Collaborative | The DMV Collects the DMV
The Kreeger Museum
On view October 26, 2024 - February 1, 2025
HEMPHILL is pleased to share The Collaborative | The DMV Collects the DMV on view at The Kreeger Museum through February 1, 2025.
This exhibition is presented under The Collaborative, a program developed by The Kreeger Museum in 2021 to support Washington-area artists.
HEMPHILL Artists Featured:
Rush Baker IV, Leon Berkowitz, William Christenberry, Steven Cushner, Gene Davis, Mary Early, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Jacob Kainen, Kevin MacDonald, Renée Stout, Julie Wolfe
Artwork Spotlight: JULIE WOLFE - Twilight 1, 2020
Occurring between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night, twilight is the soft glow from the sky when the sun is below the horizon. This phenomenon is caused by the refraction and scattering of the sun’s rays from the atmosphere.
Twilight 1, captures this moment with lines of radiating color that appear to be floating in the heavens. It is also reminiscent of the Magnitude of Equality series with rays of color that serve as systems of equal representation.
~Julie Wolfe
Please stop by the gallery to see Twilight 1 hanging in the front office.
JULIE WOLFE
Twilight 1, 2020
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Apophenia | D&AD Awards 2024 Pencil Winner
HEMPHILL is pleased to share Julie Wolfe's most recent D&AD Pencil Award for her publication, Apophenia.
The book design for Julie Wolfe's "Apophenia" enhances content through layout and typography. Placing images side by side facilitates the emergence of patterns, unlocking apophenia—finding meaning in randomness. Featuring diverse subjects, from dreamy visuals to unknown species, presented as collaged images, it prompts fresh perceptions. Typeset in Genalth & Theinhardt for historical significance, it achieves a balance between extravagance and legibility. During printing, the substitution of magenta ink with fluorescent pink creates a dreamy color scape, adding a surreal quality to the design.
Zigzagging through Time to Craft the Illusion of Multitudes
Echo Gone Wrong
November 13, 2023
Author Rosana Lukauskaitė
Published in Review from Lithuania
Meanwhile the exhibition ‘The Glow’, curated by Agnė Jonkutė and shown at the Pamėnkalnio galerija until November 4, delves into the essence of colour within minimalist art... Julie Wolfe’s Summary of Evidence transforms pages from William Matthews’ 1939 book Climate and Evolution into a visual study of change and endurance. By treating the pages with chlorophyll and subjecting them to sunlight, Wolfe creates a natural gradation of green hues, an artistic commentary perhaps on the interplay between knowledge and the inexorable forces of nature.
LACONICA: THE GLOW
Pamėnkalnio Galerija, Lithuania
October 6 - November 4, 2023
HEMPHILL is pleased to share Julie Wolfe's inclusion in LACONICA: THE GLOW at Pamėnkalnio Galerija in Lithuania. The exhibition was curated by Agnė Jonkutė and is on view from October 6 - November 4, 2023.
The idea for the exhibition came from a rethinking of the strict black/white monochrome of the 2021 Laconica Biennial exhibitions, which led to the contrasting choice to reflect on the meaning of colourfulness in the language of minimalist art...
The Glow is one of the events of the Laconica biennial of visual art. The Biennial was conceived as a space and a platform for artists who develop minimal/minimalist ways of thinking, using such keywords as reduction of form, reserved narrative, abstractness, aesthetics of silence, etc. The events of the 2021 Laconica Biennial were interested in the links between monochrome and minimalist poetry. This year's exhibitions focus on the field of phenomena of colour and olfactory (scents) art.
Scientific Illustration: Sampling Across the Collections
Georgetown University Library
Special Collections Gallery, Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery
July 17 - October 13, 2023
HEMPHILL is pleased to share Julie Wolfe's inclusion in Scientific Illustration: Sampling Across the Collections at the Special Collections Gallery in the Georgetown University Library.
This exhibition brings together some of the most magnificent examples of scientific illustration in the Booth Family Center for Special Collections, as well as some of the more curious and most speculative. Works of art, influenced by and influencing the sciences, share space with the illustrations throughout the exhibition.
Julie Wolfe Apophenia Book Signing
June 15, 2023 | 6 pm
Please join us in the gallery for a Book Signing Event to celebrate Julie Wolfe's newest launch, Apophenia.
The forthcomimg book, Apophenia taps into the optical unconscious to reveal something essential about perception.
Through juxtaposing images across the pages, patterns emerge through free association, unleashing apophenia—the process by which humans make meaning out of incidental images.
There will be a limited number of books available for purchase at the event on June 15, 2023.
Julie Wolfe: Apophenia
At Printed Matter Chelsea
May 25, 2023
6 - 8 PM
HEMPHILL is pleased to share the launch of Julie Wolfe's newest book, Apophenia. Printed Matter, Chelsea will hold an event on May 25, 2023 from 6 - 8 pm to celebrate the launch.
Join us for the launch of Julie Wolfe’s Apophenia at Printed Matter Chelsea. Wolfe’s book taps into the optical unconscious to reveal something essential about perception. Through juxtaposing images across the pages, patterns emerge through free association, unleashing apophenia—the process by which humans make meaning out of incidental images.
ART TALKS: A Conversation with Julie Wolfe & Tim Doud
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 10am
Join us in the gallery for a conversation between artists Julie Wolfe and Tim Doud on the occasion of Wolfe's Exhibition "Opposing Forces," on view September 10 - October 29, 2022. Wolfe and Doud will walk visitors through the gallery to discuss the conception of Wolfe's newest body of work and the sequencing of the artworks in this exhibition.
Doors will open at 10am and the program will begin promptly at 10:15. Please note there will be no seating provided, the speakers will move throughout the gallery during the talk. Attendance is limited and reservations are required.
Since 1998, the ART TALKS series at Hemphill has included educational lectures on topics such as collecting for beginners, artist talks, and panel discussions on issues in contemporary art.
ART TALK Julie Wolfe | Artist Books & Folios
Saturday, July 23, 2022, 11AM
Join us in the gallery to view and discuss Julie Wolfe's recent limited edition artist books and folios incorporating silkscreen, digital printing and collage. Recent publications include Cradling the Singing Bird (2022), Wonderland: The Optical Unconscious (2022), Completing the Bestiary (2022), Travelogue (2021), and Wildfires & Dreamfields (2020).
As Galleries Return to Normal, One Group Show Thinks Big
For OPEN on K, Hemphill in Washington D.C. asked artists to bring their biggest ideas.
Hyperallergic
By Kriston Capps
November 11, 2021.
For Open on K, Hemphill asked artists to bring their biggest ideas. That’s a promising gallery provocation for this moment of return to not-quite-normalcy. Rush Baker appears to have found urgent inspiration in the Black Lives Matter protests for racial justice in the summer of 2020, but his paintings also point indirectly to the inchoate rage of the January 6 insurrection, with which the United States has yet to reckon. Many other artists — and many of the rest of us — spent months looking inward. Stepping back into the gallery after so many months of not seeing or showing or socializing marks an important moment, one in which we may see what’s changed.
The Color of Light: Utopian Abstractions
L’ancien Eveche (The Ancient Bishop’s Palace), Uzés, France
The Color of Light: Utopian Abstractions is on view at L’ancien Eveche (The Ancient Bishop’s Palace) in Uzés, France. After a successful opening at the Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia (birthplace of the artist), where the show was created to respond to the abstract, meditative, empty spaces of Rothko’s paintings, the exhibition continues its journey through the south of France, under this very special light, and with the support of The Association of Art, Architecture and Territory.
To honor Rothko and his legacy as a “colorist," curator Dianne Beal, selected an international roster of five artists - a native of Uzés, Pascal Fancony, a Belgian, Yves Ullens, a Japanese, Go Segawa, and two Americans, Anton Ginzburg and Julie Wolfe.
The Color of Light: Utopian Abstractions
Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Latvia | June 22, 2021
The Color of Light: Utopian Abstractions displays five artists’ investigations into the color of light. Whether expressed through painting, drawing, photography, video, installation or sculpture, the effects of light, materials, color intensity and hue, subject matter, inspiration, latitude and climate all affect the outcome of the abstract images presented. The artists are united by their dedication to abstraction, pure color and form...
Julie Wolfe (Washington, DC, USA) investigates color and form, the beauty of nature and its destruction in her paintings, prints, drawings, sculptural objects and installations. Wolfe works with a myriad of materials including water, light, chemical and organic compounds, photographs, salvaged books and other found objects and explores patterns of light and intricacies of color.
The Washington Print Club
Conversation with Collector Laura Roulet featuring Nekisha Durrett and Julie Wolfe
May 26 | 11am-12pm EST
Collector Laura Roulet will lead us on a virtual slide tour of her collection of works on paper. Joining her in conversation will be DC-area artists Nekisha Durrett and Julie Wolfe.
"In the Galleries," Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, November 20, 2020.
Julie Wolfe's 2020 Exhibition at HEMPHILL was reviewed by Mark Jenkins for The Washington Post.
"If such references suggest quaint nostalgia, that's not all that flourishes in Wolfe's dreamfields. These visual pileups also convey a sense of anxiety that's altogether up to date."
Read "In the Galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA" here.
Julie Wolfe, Wildfires and Dreamfields - VIDEO
Created in conjunction with the Julie Wolfe exhibition at HEMPHILL, this video surveys the suite of five prints on display in the gallery and explores the artist's process of creating the limited edition Artist Book, Wildfires and Dreamfields.
Artist: Julie Wolfe
Copyright: Visual: HEMPHILL Artworks, Music: Ledah Finck 2020
Photography & Video Footage: Julie Wolfe
Video Editing: Hannah Davis
Music: The Hands & Cambium Composed by Ledah Finck
Performed by Ledah Finck and Nick Saia
Hemphill Coloring Book
by HEMPHILL
07/15/2020
This coloring book was created during the shelter-in-place period of 2020. Thanks to the artists for their participation and inspiration. Art endures and so will we. Be well and thank you for continued support.
Julie Wolfe, Opposing Forces - VIDEO
by HEMPHILL
06/24/2020
Please enjoy this short video detailing the conception and evolution of Julie Wolfe's new series, Opposing Forces. Created during the isolation period of COVID-19, Opposing Forces asks questions without fixed answers. Wolfe reassembles the building blocks of geometry, mathematics, color theory and perception to probe us, provoke us, and propose that images can teach us about ourselves in ways that words cannot. How do we un-think color or form? What compels us, chaos or order? Are we innately drawn to one or the other and, if so, what does that say about us as we chart our experiences and reactions in the face of uncertainty?
JULIE WOLFE
Opposing Forces
2020
acrylic and ink on found book page
13 1/4" x 19 1/2" each
Julie Wolfe
In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past
11/08/2019
by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
Julie Wolfe
In the galleries: An exhibition that draws attention to overlooked issues
8/23/19
by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
Julie Wolfe
Book Release
07/12/2019
Julie Wolfe’s newest publication, Dream Sequel Series: Under Their Gaze We Become Creatures will be available for purchase on August 1, 2019. Recent prints, paintings and drawings are juxtaposed with images from the artist’s collection of second-hand books based on outdated psychoanalysis theories, art history and natural science. The photographic images are reordered, distorted, merged and arranged into the book in a way that stages random associations between facing pages that might be in dialogue and taking on new meanings.
Julie Wolfe
In the Viewing Room
December 1 - 21, 2018
For a limited time, a curated selection of new paintings, drawings, book pages and prints by Julie Wolfe will be installed in the gallery's viewing room. Email us at gallery@hemphillfinearts.com to schedule an appointment.
Renée Stout and Julie Wolfe at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Hand-Copying the Constitution and Other Responses to Trump
July 6, 2018
Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic
Julie Wolfe: Landview Effect
Print Viewing and Artist's Talk
Saturday, April 21 at 11:00am
Please join us for a viewing of Landview Effect, a new series of art books and print portfolios by Julie Wolfe, on Saturday, April 21 from 11:00am - 1:00pm.
35 Days
35 Days
June 24, 2017
Stephanie Rudig, Washington City Paper
"This isn’t just a Color School roundup, however: The show includes artists deploying color to completely different ends, like the trippy pattern-based work of Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, as well as some varying landscape photography artists like Anne Rowland and William Christenberry."
Julie Wolfe: Quest for Third Paradise
In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing
March 3, 2017
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"The third paradise the D.C. artist seeks is one in which nature, technology and humanity all flourish. She evokes this in pictures that suggest both organic and electronic systems, or by juxtaposing black-and-white photos with areas of pure color."
Julie Wolfe: Quest for Third Paradise
Abstracting the Data of the Natural World with Colorful Geometries
March 1, 2017
Claire Voon, Hyperallergic
"Julie Wolfe tries to make sense of the natural world by gathering and categorizing all kinds of sights and objects that offer no scientific information but inspire search for meaning, like puzzles."
Julie Wolfe: Language of the Birds
'Julie Wolfe: Language of the Birds' at Hemphill Fine Arts, Reviewed
May 19, 2016
Kriston Capps, Washington City Paper
"As a painter, Julie Wolfe doesn’t rely on any single visual system. Light and color are abundant in “Language of the Birds,” Wolfe’s solo show at Hemphill Fine Arts, her third, but those qualities are sometimes all that carries over from one work to the next. If Wolfe were a bird, she would be a hummingbird, moving from flower to flower in a way that looks frenetic but betrays precision."
Julie Wolfe: GREEN ROOM
Artist’s colorful ‘science project’ is a commentary on world’s water supply
December 2, 2015
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"Housed in some 500 glass bottles stacked on metal shelves, the water, sediment and vegetation samples on display in the window of 1700 L St. NW look like a science project. But the contents of the jars, illuminated from behind, also glow with vivid reds, purples and blues, resembling a color-field painting that has been disassembled and liquefied."
REPRESENT
At Hemphill Fine Arts, a retrospective show that's bigger than the gallery
November 15, 2013
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"Several mini-shows nestle within “Represent,” Hemphill Fine Arts’s 20th-anniversary exhibition."
Artist-Citizen, Washington, DC
A quartet of gallery summer group shows
July 12, 2013
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"If the personal is political, these grandiose, dysfunctional structures are calling artist-citizens to take to the streets (or, more likely, cul-de-sacs)."
Artist-Citizen, Washington, DC
"Artist-Citizen" at Hemphill, Reviewed
June 14, 2013
Matthew Smith, Washington City Paper
"The show focuses on artistic civic engagement—artists that are out of their studios and walking the streets. Mostly culled from the gallery’s stable of artists, 'Artist-Citizen' presents works that speak through the city itself."
Julie Wolfe: Rewilding
Galleries: Julie Wolfe
May 10, 2013
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
"For millennia, pigments were derived directly from plants, metals and gems. More recently, synthetic dyes were developed, and human-made contaminants began discoloring the natural world. These are among the motifs of 'Rewilding,' Julie Wolfe’s show at Hemphill Fine Arts."
Julie Wolfe: Rewilding
"Rewilding," Reviewed
April 5, 2013
Kriston Capps, Washington City Paper
"'Rewilding,' a solo show by Julie Wolfe at Hemphill Fine Arts, gestures at an ambivalent state between nature and civilization: reclamation, either in terms of preservation or, perhaps, something darker and more apocalyptic.
Julie Wolfe: Rewilding
Gallery opening of the week: ‘Julie Wolfe: Rewilding’
March 21, 2013
Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post
"With this title, the Washington-based painter of nature-themed abstraction questions our disconnection with nature, inviting us to reevaluate our place in it."