About
APOPHENIA Press is an independent publishing imprint dedicated to the visual arts, art history and creative writing. The project aims to circulate artists making work about interrogating the unknown, the optical unconscious, hidden visual systems, perception, deep history and their afterlives.
This imprint was founded by Artist Julie Wolfe, with the first book, Apophenia, released in 2023.
“The word apophenia derives from the ancient Greek verb to “appear” and implies a tendency to find meaningful patterns among random entities. In other words, it is a process of creating or perceiving expressive and evocative relations between seemingly unrelated things, information, or events. By flipping through the pages of Julie Wolfe’s artist book and looking at them closely, the meaning of apophenia emerges naturally, unmediated and in a full spectrum. Here the images of items with no apparent connections are put together to produce a cohesive and striking visual array wherein surprises from unexpected juxtapositions result in overall harmony. And it is this sensorial harmony beyond words or explanations that underlines the meaning of Wolf’s Apophenia ¬–a nonverbal, perceptual meaning.”
-Vesela Sretenovic
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Georgetown University Lauinger Memorial Library, Washington, DC
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Courtauld Insitute of Art, London
National Gallery of Art Museum, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Royal Library, Copenhagen
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA
COLLABORATORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
John Woo
Flat File
Barbara Colle
Andrew Gardner
Ruby Redstone