{"id":30262,"date":"2025-10-02T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.marcushotels.com\/?p=30262"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:41:11","slug":"saint-kate-the-arts-hotel-welcomes-julia-bradfish-as-new-artist-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.marcushotels.com\/?p=30262","title":{"rendered":"Saint Kate \u2013 The Arts Hotel Welcomes Julia Bradfish as New Artist in Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MILWAUKEE, WI \u2013 Saint Kate \u2013 The Arts Hotel, the award-winning destination owned and managed by Marcus\u00ae Hotels & Resorts, proudly announces the arrival of its fourth Artist in Residence, Julia Bradfish, an abstract oil painter from Wausau, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Bradfish has officially begun her year-long residency at Saint Kate, joining a prestigious program that provides Midwest-based artists with a dedicated studio space onsite. This unique setting provides artists with the opportunity to create new work while engaging with hotel guests and contributing to Saint Kate\u2019s vibrant, ongoing celebration of the arts.<\/p>\n

Bradfish\u2019s studio is open to the public, offering visitors the chance to view her evolving work and discuss her artistic process. In addition to regular studio hours, she will participate in Milwaukee\u2019s Fall Gallery Night on October 17, welcoming guests to explore her practice in a more dynamic setting.<\/p>\n

Exploring the Tension Between Intuition and Intention<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bradfish\u2019s creative process begins not on canvas, but with a collage created from found materials like magazine and newspaper clippings. This initial stage is intuitive, allowing disparate elements to converge into cohesive visual explorations of form, color, and texture.<\/p>\n

Yet her transition from collage to canvas is far from literal. Rather than reproducing these compositions, Bradfish reinterprets them through oil painting, a medium she favors for its rich texture, slow-drying flexibility, and ability to build complex, layered surfaces. Her paintings explore the dynamic interplay between control and spontaneity, and between the accidental and the deliberate. Each brushstroke becomes both a continuation and a transformation of the raw fragments beneath it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt its core, my work is about finding a balance between control and accident,\u201d Bradfish shares. \u201cI look forward to the connections made during my time at Saint Kate, and how each conversation, each fragment of experience will layer into my practice, just as each torn piece in a collage becomes part of a larger visual environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

With expanded studio space, Bradfish will also be working at a larger scale than ever before, a shift she eagerly embraces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe space here invites me to stretch physically and creatively,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m excited to see how that freedom influences my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meet the Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guests and visitors are invited to visit Bradfish during her open studio hours:<\/p>\n