Julia Solis

Julia Solis conducts archaeological parlor games and investigates ruined urban spaces. As the founder of Dark Passage, she started the creative preservation group Ars Subterranea in 2002 with the object of staging scavenger hunts and exhibitions in unusual locations in New York. She is an officer of the Madagascar Institute and Place in History, the executive producer of the film American Ruins, a co-founder of Furnace Press, and recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Publications include New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City (Routledge, 2004 and Christoph Links, 2002 in German) and Scrub Station (Koja Press, 2002).

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Mentions

2006:
Tour Group Takes Curious to Restricted NY, NY1
Freelance, London Times Literary Supplement
Best of NYC, Village Voice
Treasure Hunters Map Local Mystery, Kansas City Star
Urban Exploration: A Growing Fine Art Photography Hobby, Design Programs
Urban Outfitter, Village Voice
Abandonment Issues, Bust

2005:
Fearless Finder of the City's Secrets, New York Sun
Subterranean Homesick Blues, Village Voice
Going Underground, San Francisco Chronicle
The Fossils That Never Lived, New York Times
New York Underground, BoingBoing
What's Under New York? Newyorkology
New York Underground, Urban Cartography
Cityscapes: Interview, WFUV

2004:
Tunnel Visionary, Smithsonian Magazine
Julia Solis of Ars Subterranea, SOMA
Urban Archaeologist, BoingBoing
Tokens of Esteem, Washington Post
Book Review, American Roads Magazine

Older:
Explorers Club, Time Out New York
Fellow Interview, NYFA Quarterly
Outlaw Tourists in the Urban Underbelly, New York Times
Mysteries of the Murals, Newsday

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