arts pswt open studio & whats new in my head

Years ago I had collaborated with a dance company called Def Jam Dance Workshop. It was a dance company with dancers who could not hear the music …. but could feel it. That year at BWAC I had been selected to be the featured artist for their summer show with the theme of Hot so I wrote a poem titled Hot and had it translated into ASL and made sculpted hands of clay to tell the poem. That was when I was told about Def Jam and in two weeks they choreographed the dance Hot and performed it in front of my piece. I was amazed to see the words in motion. The next time we collaborated Def Jam had also arranged to have the words put to music. I remember saying then “I love it when the languages of art can speak to one another.” It was a magical moment for me and remembering it reminds me how much I enjoy collaborations which take me outside of my thinking pattern and reach into a well of untapped creativity.

This time I collaborated with artist Alise Loebelsohn combining her intricate detailed paintings with my faces. I love how it gave another level to my work and to hers. How working with someone else is like taking in oxygen.

I’ve been thinking about what or where I want to go next when a friend who is an incredible poet asked me if I would be interested in illustrating a book of poems she is creating. I was honored and am excited where this new journey will take me.

So if you are interested in seeing the many journeys I have taken and thought on new places I will go come on the arts Park Slope/Windsor Terrace/Greenwood open studio tour this coming weekend May 4th and 5th from 12 pm to 6 pm each day. Directory and map here.

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what can I do with what I already have that will take me someplace new

That became the theme when Alise Loebelsohn and I decided to collaborate. She had been invited to be a part of The Harlem Fine Arts Fair and in spite of the fact we all are descendants of the same black mother in Africa she asked me if I would like to share the 30 foot space with her. I was just coming off my high of doing The Other Art Fair and said yes.

Then I woke up one day after a night of dreams how to bring our very different styles of work together and called Alise to ask if we could collaborate on some pieces that could help bridge the differences. I always loved the complexity of her work and continue to be in awe of the maze of layers of details in her pieces which we decided could be the background that housed and gave another layer of depth to my work sometimes clothing them. Her work gave mine a place to live and mine helped to add another layer to hers.

This was our first. When she put the man with the trumpet on her layers of gold we both saw the possibility of what we were thinking.

Then I tried and we new we’d hit on a great collaboration.

So stay tuned because there is a lot more to come …. okay one more

Still working on what is the relationship between these two and by the time I see you at The Harlem Fine Arts Fair February 23rd – 25th I will have an answer or you would have made your own story.

At The Glasshouse 660 12th Avenue Between 48th and 49th, NYC. tickets can be purchased www.eventbrite.com/e/690822868797/?discount+ARTISTGUEST. Only for Saturday 10 am to 5 pm & Sunday 1 to 6 pm.

She was just about ready when I took this photo ….. just a few more tweeks of her “clothing” and accessories and then it was into the frame and placed with all the other pieces that will go to the Harlem Fine Art Show once again at The Glass House 660 12th Street, NY, NY February 23rd to the 25th. Only Saturday and Sunday open to the general public.

new year … new season … new shows!

First after a rest will be the 25th annual salon show at WAH (Williamsburg Art History Center) opening February 3rd. It is located at 135 Broadway @ Bedford weekends only from 1 to 5 pm. the opening reception is 3 to 5 pm. Hope to see you there.

STAY TUNED I WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THE UPCOMING HARLEM FINE ARTS SHOW at the Glass House in the Hudson Yards February 23rd to the 25th. Details and more images to come.

Holiday Shopping @ BWAC extended to 12/23/23

Serving bowl @ BWAC’s Makers Market sale extended to this Saturday only 12.23/23.

You will find a few of my ceramic city-scapes and a couple of my jazz paper collages along with a lot of other work made by more of BWAC’s and Brooklyn’s creative artists in the Brooklyn Made Shop at Industry City at 51 35th Street, building #5. There is an opening party Tuesday night, December 12th from 5 to 7.

Didn’t find everything you needed there then there is still the last weekend before Christmas at BWAC in Red Hook. On the ground floor BWAC’s Artists Market where you will see my vases, bowls and little nic-nak dishes. Upstairs you will find the Red Hook Holiday Market with all kinds of goodies.

This coming weekend, final weekend to shop December 16/17 from 1 to 6 pm.

Saatchi: The Other Art Fair

Thank you so much first to Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair organization who made this such a wonderful event from the interesting artists from all over the world I was able to meet and to the thousands of art appreciators who bought and walked through. And let me not forget the great music they played to keep our energy levels ups. I had a rewarding time meeting so many people who were interested in hearing about my work. I must selfishly admit that I learn so much about the why of what I do by sharing the experience with others who want to understand what drives and inspires me.

Just a reminder for tickets and use JUDITH20 for your 20% off discount.

THREE NEW FALL SHOWS …update

Opening next week Saatchi’s Other Art Fair. I will be there in booth #113 in ZeroSpace at 337-345 Butler Street between 4th and 3rd Avenues in Gowanus Brooklyn 11217. I look forward to seeing you there with some new works including Tangerine below. You can get your discount tickets by using my discount code My artist ticket code JUDITH20 provides 20% off the posted ticket price online (even if a promotion is already going on!).

There will be 130 exhibiting artist so lots to see. The show runs November 9th until the 12th. Lots to see and do. Oh and should I mention the food trucks …..

First opening this weekend on Saturday, October 21st 2023 Plastic and Metal Exhibit at WAH (the Williamsburg Art History Center) at the corner of Bedford and Broadway.

I couldn’t go to the opening but went the next day and there is a wonderful mix of art addressing the theme.

Opening on September 28th at BWAC 481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook Brooklyn the RED YELLOW ORANGE exhibit. I decided to see “what if I” made 3D paper collage still life. So come see the results.

And then finally but not the least of all I will be one of the 130 artists participating in the Other Art Fair at Zero Space in Gowanus. Booth #113

OPENING NIGHT …. Thursday, November 9th 6 to 10 pm

GENERAL ENTRY ….FRI, NOV. 10: 5 – 10 pm, SAT, NOV. 11: 11 am – 7 pm, SUN, NOV. 12: 11 am – 6 pm

VENUE…. ZeroSpace 337 -345 Butler Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

My artist ticket code JUDITH20 provides 20% off the posted ticket price online (even if a promotion is already going on!).

Stay tuned for images but in the meantime check me out on instagram .

FALL into another season of art

After 20 years at BWAC I will be helping them to celebrate 45 years of providing a space for emerging artist to exhibit their work. I stumbled upon BWAC when I was looking for a community of artist to be a part of and it has more than met my need providing a space for me to grow and challenge myself.

I will be exhibiting in both the members show in Bay 1 on the second floor of BWAC with several new pieces of my 3D paper collage portrait sculptures.

There is a 4 piece music collection series where I had fun playing with shapes and patterns. In my instagram I’d shown the musicians with their original sketches so you will see how I resolved showing the inspiration and the final together when you come see the show.

Then there is Black Barbie. Friends had sent me a care package after the death of my mother and when I looked at the packing material I knew I had to create a dressed up black Barbie.

Then I wanted to have a small collection of quiet pieces where you feel they are whispering .

This is called Its Just Girl Talk.

cast of characters

You will find them at BWAC’s fall show opening September 9th, 2023 and see what becomes of them.

Here they are with their origins ….. the sketch that inspired the piece.

coming up

New season with new shows …… so new work.

Right now she is called The Gatherer …… but we’ll see who she is by show time. More to come for the fall season.

OFF THE GRID @ BWAC

BWAC’s summer show opens this coming weekend. Downstairs will be Chashama’s Go Figure exhibit and when you venture upstairs bay one will house BWAC’s member’s exhibit Off The Grid.

Then in Bay 2 I am part of the juried show The Arc Project showing the diversity of representing the human portrait. There you will find Lady Zoom created during the lockdown. She reminded me I create for the joy of it and not to meet deadlines or just to make money. Though both of those things are a driving force they don’t have the same impact of the joy of creating. So here she is (was all dressed up and no place to go during the lockdown Lady Zoom.

She is there with a couple of pieces from my This Is America series … after all how could I enter a show about portraits and not submit them.

So come on down to be within the cool brick walls of an old prewar building by the water and relax while taking in some great art July 8th to August 16th 1 to 6 pm weekends only 481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook Brooklyn, NY