Gouache and Flashe paint on paper

36in x 60in

Julie Wolfe’s “Repair” drawings invite viewers to consider mending as a metaphor. While at a residency, Wolfe was surprised to see the town’s history of industrial textile production reflected in its vernacular architecture. This pushed her to examine building as a palimpsestic process and see architectural infrastructure as one of the most visible forms of repair integral to our daily lives. Through Wolfe’s eyes, the act of stitching becomes a sort of (re)construction: an architecture of threads. Here, threads are translated into organic, hand-drawn hatches. Rigid and repetitive rectilinear forms contrast with the textile-like graphite marks. Superimposed shapes suggest tension that resolve in the emergence of a pattern. These patterns are made even more striking by Wolfe’s signature colorful abstraction, and the haptic experience of weaving is evoked by the textured rag paper and irregular, deckled edges. With these drawings, Wolfe pays tribute to the inspiration found in proto-modernist darning samplers, historically-overlooked “women’s work,” and social renewal.

gouache and Flashe on paper

36in x 60in

Julie Wolfe’s “Repair” drawings invite viewers to consider mending as a metaphor. While at a residency, Wolfe was surprised to see the town’s history of industrial textile production reflected in its vernacular architecture. This pushed her to examine building as a palimpsestic process and see architectural infrastructure as one of the most visible forms of repair integral to our daily lives. Through Wolfe’s eyes, the act of stitching becomes a sort of (re)construction: an architecture of threads. Here, threads are translated into organic, hand-drawn hatches. Rigid and repetitive rectilinear forms contrast with the textile-like graphite marks. Superimposed shapes suggest tension that resolve in the emergence of a pattern. These patterns are made even more striking by Wolfe’s signature colorful abstraction, and the haptic experience of weaving is evoked by the textured rag paper and irregular, deckled edges. With these drawings, Wolfe pays tribute to the inspiration found in proto-modernist darning samplers, historically-overlooked “women’s work,” and social renewal.

Gouache and Flashe on paper

36in x 60in

Julie Wolfe’s “Repair” drawings invite viewers to consider mending as a metaphor. While at a residency, Wolfe was surprised to see the town’s history of industrial textile production reflected in its vernacular architecture. This pushed her to examine building as a palimpsestic process and see architectural infrastructure as one of the most visible forms of repair integral to our daily lives. Through Wolfe’s eyes, the act of stitching becomes a sort of (re)construction: an architecture of threads. Here, threads are translated into organic, hand-drawn hatches. Rigid and repetitive rectilinear forms contrast with the textile-like graphite marks. Superimposed shapes suggest tension that resolve in the emergence of a pattern. These patterns are made even more striking by Wolfe’s signature colorful abstraction, and the haptic experience of weaving is evoked by the textured rag paper and irregular, deckled edges. With these drawings, Wolfe pays tribute to the inspiration found in proto-modernist darning samplers, historically-overlooked “women’s work,” and social renewal.