12 x 12 JURIED EXHIBITION

It's In Our Hands (2018)

It's In Our Hands (2018)

I am very excited to announce that my newest Power of Women collage has been accepted into the 12"x12" National Juried Exhibition juried by Hong Chun Zhang and hosted by the Lawrence Arts Center. Over a hundred applicants submitted works and I feel incredibly humbled to not only have had my work selected, but selected by a artist whom I have long admired and for whom I have the utmost respect. The path from idly admiring Hong's exquisitely laborous drawings as a gallery visitor, to studying her techniques in my beginning drawing classes, to receiving today's news has been strange and circuitous, and I am grateful for the journey. 


12" x 12" opens on October 27 (Final Fri reception 5-9pm) at the Lawrence Arts Center and runs through December 22nd. See you then!

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PUPPET WORKSHOP @ LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY

INTERVIEW WITH odeandiefreude.com/

“The concept of an empowered woman is nothing new; we are not a modern, antithetical response to systems of patriarchal oppression. Within each empowered woman is a long lineage of women’s strength and resilience.” 

I spoke with ODENANDIEFREUDE.com about my collage process and my involvement in Nasty Women: Empowerment, curated by Creative Debuts.  Read the full interview here!

JUDY GOES TO LONDON!

I am THRILLED to announce that my digital collage, 'Only Judy Can Judge Me', has been chosen as one of 40 feminist artworks to exhibit in Empowerment, a show co-curated by @CreativeDebuts and @NastyWomenExhibition in collaboration with @nastywomennortheast,  @nastywomenlondon, and Nasty Women in Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Brussels! Tickets available via Creative Debuts!
To celebrate #internationalwomensday on March 8, part of the money raised from the exhibition will be donated to the End Violence Against Women Coalition to protect women’s rights worldwide. See videos and photos from the event over at Creative Debuts!

-AMERICAN @ the bourgeois pig

-American, ft contemporary work by Latinx and Asian-American artists opens tonight at the @thebourgeoispig, 8pm! I have a new iteration of my breasticles sculpture work included in the show, which I helped organize. With this iteration (titled -matr [ii]) of my breasticles as material, I wanted to draw direct attention to the flesh-tone quality of the hosiery, and was interested i creating a spectrum matrix with these representations of skin tones.

Show description: Represented here are seven artists spanning a multicultural spectrum of Chicana, Chinese-Vietnamese-American, Cuban-American, Hmong, and multiracial Mexican-European-American heritage. Like the artists themselves, no two works are alike in either content or medium, but all are bound by a shared quality, a common denominator, of Otherized cultural endowment. We are each the resilient, forlorn, inventive expressive daughters of immigrants.

-American has its FINAL FRIDAY OPENING RECEPTION tomorrow at 5pm, and there is a LOT of Latinx/POC art to see in Lawrence! Tomorrow night is also the Native American Art Showcase at the Murphy-Bromelsick House (1000 Delaware St) from 5-9pm ft work by @irisncliff, among others! And ALSO, @merkabawellnesscentercelebrates its first anniversary with a Final Friday Poetry Slam ft artists from Black Lawrence! 👏GO.

MARINA PENG'S "TAKE CARE"

I was lucky enough to perform for Marina Peng, a multidisciplinary badass from St. Louis, as part of her solo-exhibition at 50/50 Gallery in Kansas City, presenting 'Take Care'. Take Care features a series of installation and new media works that call attention to the daily emotional labor that marginalized individuals take on silently. The exhibition explores different coping mechanisms that these individuals use to defend, watch out for, and take care of themselves in spaces where they are subject to tokenism, micro-aggressions, gaslighting, discrimination, or violence.

You can see documentation of the performances here, and learn more about Marina and her work by visiting her website! 

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@ ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER

My summer is ending the same way it began - with screen printing! Wearing my original Ces Ne Sont Pas Gobletes shirt I designed/printed with @shawnbitters, while printing a stencil designed by @praystation on the jacket I bought in 2012, the year I first started noodling with code. Full friggin' circle ⭕🔴⭕ 

Special thanks to the KU School of Arts Exit Award Committee for awarding me the Hollander Family Foundation Award, which has generously covered my tuition and travel to Anderson Ranch to study with Joshua Davis for a week. I'm finally (FINALLY!!!!!) receiving some formal instruction in Arduino and Processing, after years of DIY/dilettante learning. Over the course of the week, I played with lots of different Arduino sensors but was really taken with Processing. I'm drawn to that specific aesthetic, both digital and perfect, that comes with generative art engendered through creative coding. I have a LONG way to go still in my understanding and incorporating my knowledge into my practice, the borders of which continue to stretch and blend across disciplines. Check out the humble sensor driven animation I made while at Anderson Ranch!

GO TO JOAN GLOVER (BREAD & PUPPET APPRENTICESHIP)

VT Update! Yesterday was the first sunny day since we arrived last Tuesday. It's poured rain every day and night, but I'm enjoying the lack of reception and the glory that is Green Mountain. One parade + performance down, featuring three canatastorias. Last night we threw a brass band barn party in the Paper Maché Cathedral and I swear I stepped through the looking glass into a dreamscape of polka music, colorful dancers and cathartic togetherness. I feel initiated into a most radical family. Looking forward to two parades tomorrow and another show on Sunday, before taking off to Montreal for a week. Feeling very grateful, and dirty. 

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MODERN VENUS: THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE

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Shipping Judy and Susannah off to Wichita today! I've never had to ship work before, already experiencing a strange maternal anxiety 🙈 Wichita folks can check 'em out at the Finishing School for Modern Women's June Final Friday show, 'Modern Venus: The Female Perspective' 💠

ONLY JUDY CAN JUDGE ME

A pleasant deviation from the usual. It's amazing what one comes up with when under pressure, with no time to second guess. Just going with the flow, doing whatever makes my hands happy. I've always wanted to paint like a master-painter; here, I paint with them. 

"Only Judy Can Judge Me" is my first foray into a new digital collage series entitled the Power of Women series. It will be on view as part of the 2017 Lawrence Arts Center Art Auction! 

Only Judy Can Judge Me (2017)

Only Judy Can Judge Me (2017)

#firstsoloshow

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The first show with my name in print! // I am happy to announce that my first solo show has opened at the Union Gallery at the University of Kansas, featuring select video works and my 'living' installation. I will be adding breasticles this Thurs during the day and Sunday. CLOSING RECEPTION, FEB 17 @ 7pm