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  Mary Judge  
  installation and new work on paper
February 18 - March 20, 2005 . Opening Reception: February 18, 6-9 pm
 
 
 
Exotic Hex
"Exotic Hex"
powdered pigment on rag paper
40" x 40"
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Curly
"Curly"
powdered pigment on rag paper
40" x 40"
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Spiral Form series no. BX2
"Spiral Form series no. BX2"
powdered pigment on canvas,
acrylic wash, matt medium
70" x 96"
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Spiral Form series no. MX1
"Spiral Form series no. MX1"
powdered pigment on canvas,
acrylic wash, matt medium
48" x 56"
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MJ_flowerAbove
"Flower Form no. 2" (view from above)
cast concrete
6' diameter, 16 modules
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Flower Form no. 2
installation of
"Flower Form no. 2"
cast concrete
6' diameter, 16 modules
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Untitled Spolvero on Wall no. 382
installation of
"Untitled Spolvero on Wall no. 382"
powdered pigment on wall

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Automatic Writing series no. P1
"Automatic Writing series no. P1"
powdered pigment on panel
18" x 14"
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Automatic Writing series no. P2
"Automatic Writing series no. P2"
powdered pigment on panel
18" x 14"
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Automatic Writing series no. PP2
"Automatic Writing series no. PP2"
powdered pigment on panel
18" x 14"
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Bird Bath
"Bird Bath"
cast cement
W:15.5" x D:15.5" x H:13"
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This exhibition by Mary Judge
will showcase a selection of new large and small scale Spolvero drawings, a new sculptural project, and a large installation drawing done directly on the wall of the gallery sited specifically for the gallery's 18 foot high ceilings. A thoroughly contemporary artist Judge has, with subtlety and skill, revived an ancient technique and made it completely her own. Developed in the Renaissance, Spolvero, literally "dusting" in Italian, was the means whereby large designs for fresco could be transferred to the walls. In this technique dry earthen pigments are dusted or "pounced" through tiny holes that have been punched along the lines of a drawing. When the paper template is removed the drawing appears transformed, softened by the cloud of dry pigment, yet clearly rendered. In her large and varied body of work utilizing this technique Mary Judge has wedded its' gentle imprecision to a crisp aesthetic based on a linear and modular approach to form. Developing her ideas on folded sheets of paper, the finished works often express a bilateral symmetry which strongly suggests the body, an association somehow made stronger by her choice of raw earth pigments in warm shades. Her concentric lines suggest other associations as well, such as the rings in the cross section of trees, baroque typography, or arabic calligraphy and their graceful repetition of form evokes a meditative response in the viewer. In a 2001 interview she stated, "My images are figurative, that is, they have an objectness, that pure abstract forms don't have. They express a state of being rather than pure non objectivity."

As well as exhibiting in previous group shows at metaphor, Mary Judge has shown at the The Drawing Center, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and in galleries in Italy, Germany and the U.S. Her work is in the collections of The British Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Fogg Museum among many others.

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