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Written By JULIE WOLFE

Installation view of Quest for a Third Paradise at the Katzen Arts Center

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...

JULIE WOLFE

Julie Wolfe is a multimedia, conceptual artist based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Her work explores the layered relationship between external environments and interior states of perception, often drawing from archives of collected imagery, data, and found material. Through a practice that spans painting, installation, collage, and artist’s books, Wolfe constructs richly textured systems of color, form, and language that serve as poetic frameworks for navigating time, memory, and identity.

https://www.juliewolfestudio.com
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