For “Damage Control Observatory” (2017), Julie Wolfe, like Mary Jean Canziani, presses a found book into service, pinning its pages into a large grid on the wall and accentuating them with three-dimensional objects that could have been rescued from a riverbed (the wall label mentions “water samples taken from local and international waterways”) or harvested for spare parts on a Quay Brothers stop-motion animation...
Hyperallergic: Abstracting the Data of the Natural World with Colorful Geometries
WASHINGTON, DC — In her solo exhibition at the Katzen Arts Center, artist Julie Wolfe attempts to confront a massive question: How do we find peaceful coexistence between our human systems and the natural world? Quest for a Third Paradise — which draws its name from Michelangelo Pistoletto’s concept that envisions harmony between nature and artifice — provides no firm answers. But it insists that the path to such a paradise requires an awareness of the variety of languages we have devised and can devise to organize and understand our surroundings...