Art critic, Lori Waxman, reviewed my work in April 2010
http://www.charlottestreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/10-judith-g-levy.pdf
Take a look at Lori Waxman's review of my work. She created this review, along with many others, during her performance piece: 60 WRD/MIN art critic.
Take a look at Lori Waxman's review of my work. She created this review, along with many others, during her performance piece: 60 WRD/MIN art critic.
IMA's Artbabble interview just posted
I hope you will take a look at this interview on the Indianapolis Museum's website Artbabble that was produced by The Nugget Factory.
http://www.artbabble.org/video/judith-g-levy
http://www.artbabble.org/video/judith-g-levy
MEMORY CLOUD at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, artist reception and preview
Judith G. Levy: Memory Cloud
July 10, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion
Artist Reception & Preview
Thursday, July 9 / 5:30-7:30 pm / FREE
Complimentary light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar
Judith G. Levy's art deals with themes of memory, exploring the fleeting nature of individual experience, the similarities and differences between collective and personal acts of remembering, and how memories can be explicit or elusive. The installation will be comprised of a monumental "cloud" made from white plastic photo viewers that hang on strands of microfilament. The viewers are designed to be held up to the light to reveal an image inside. Each of the plastic viewers will contain a unique photograph, drawn from a collection of thousands of found 35mm slides that the artist has collected over the years throughout the Midwest. These photographs capture people posing for family snapshots, attending holiday events, working, enjoying vacations, or simply observing the world around them. In some areas, these viewers will be hung out of reach - suggesting a metaphor for experiences or memories that can not be retrieved - while in other areas they will be hung at a height that is accessible to visitors.
Levy is an artist based in Kansas, who until recently lived and worked in Indianapolis. Her work incorporates a variety of mediums, including drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Levy's installation in the Efroymson Family Pavilion will be her first major solo museum exhibition, and will feature a work specially commissioned for the IMA.
Support provided by a grant from The Efroymson Family Fund, A CICF Fund.
Selected image from Judith G. Levy's Memory Cloud, photograph courtesy of artist.
July 10, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion
Artist Reception & Preview
Thursday, July 9 / 5:30-7:30 pm / FREE
Complimentary light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar
Judith G. Levy's art deals with themes of memory, exploring the fleeting nature of individual experience, the similarities and differences between collective and personal acts of remembering, and how memories can be explicit or elusive. The installation will be comprised of a monumental "cloud" made from white plastic photo viewers that hang on strands of microfilament. The viewers are designed to be held up to the light to reveal an image inside. Each of the plastic viewers will contain a unique photograph, drawn from a collection of thousands of found 35mm slides that the artist has collected over the years throughout the Midwest. These photographs capture people posing for family snapshots, attending holiday events, working, enjoying vacations, or simply observing the world around them. In some areas, these viewers will be hung out of reach - suggesting a metaphor for experiences or memories that can not be retrieved - while in other areas they will be hung at a height that is accessible to visitors.
Levy is an artist based in Kansas, who until recently lived and worked in Indianapolis. Her work incorporates a variety of mediums, including drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Levy's installation in the Efroymson Family Pavilion will be her first major solo museum exhibition, and will feature a work specially commissioned for the IMA.
Support provided by a grant from The Efroymson Family Fund, A CICF Fund.
Selected image from Judith G. Levy's Memory Cloud, photograph courtesy of artist.
Upcoming: INSTALLATION FOR THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART
I am very pleased to announce that I have been commissioned to create an installation for the Efroymson Pavilion at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I will be making a very large MEMORY CLOUD that is comprised of over a thousand plastic viewers, each filled with an unique image. The installation invites museum guests to look at the images in the plastic viewers and make associations to their own memories. This work celebrates the Midwest and captures the poignancy of our efforts to create a memory via a photograph. The work is about the explicit and elusive nature of remembering, and therefore some of the images are accessible while other are not. The images come from my collection of 35mm slides from the '50's, 60's and 70's. My hope is that guests will have both a personal and communal experience as they are reminded of experiences in their own lives.
The preview opening for this exhibition is July 9, 2009 and the public opening is on July 10th. Here is a link to the press release: http://www.imamuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/Judy_Levy
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The preview opening for this exhibition is July 9, 2009 and the public opening is on July 10th. Here is a link to the press release: http://www.imamuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/Judy_Levy
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Creative Renewal Fellows Exhibition
I will be showing two videos, each accompanied by a family tree, at the Creative Renewal Fellows Exhibition at the Indianapolis Art Center, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The exhibition opens on Friday, May 8th at 6 p.m. The videos are part of a series called The Last Descendants, and each video features an interview with descendants of famous people.
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Hansel and Gretel Exhibition, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art at the Central Library, Indianapolis
I currently have work on exhibition in a group show, hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art at the Central Library in Indianapolis. The exhibition is up until January 2009.
I made a video that is titled:
Hansel and Gretel: The Last Descendants
and it is accompanied by a large family tree of the Hansel and Gretel Hachmeister family, that traces Hansel and Gretel's family from the mid 1700s in Kassel, Germany to present day Oskaloosa, Kansas.
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I made a video that is titled:
Hansel and Gretel: The Last Descendants
and it is accompanied by a large family tree of the Hansel and Gretel Hachmeister family, that traces Hansel and Gretel's family from the mid 1700s in Kassel, Germany to present day Oskaloosa, Kansas.
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Review of: How We Remember: Images Found and Made
Here's a review from NUVO, August 13, 2008. Please go to this link.
http://www.nuvo.net/articles/how_we_remember__images_found_and_made_/
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http://www.nuvo.net/articles/how_we_remember__images_found_and_made_/
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Solo Exhibition: How We Remember: Images Found and Made
I am having a solo exhibition of new work at BigCar Gallery, in Indianapolis. The opening/reception is Friday, August 1, 2008 starting at 6 PM. Please check out http://www.bigcar.org
Hope you can make it.
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Hope you can make it.
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On Procession, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Recent installation/performance work by Silevy, the artist team of Judith G. Levy and Artur Silva, was selected for the On Processsion exhibiton at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art:www.imamuseum.org. Our work was inspired by Walter Lippmann's chapter "The World Outside and the Pictures in our Heads", from his book "On Politic".
On Procession
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On Procession
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Girls Brigade, Solo Exhibition, http://soovac.org/ps_07_levy.php
You are invited to an an artist reception on Friday, September 28, 2008 at The Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, www.soovac.org. This exhibit will be my first solo show in Minneapolis. FriendsWithYou will also have their first solo show in Minneapolis at this gallery then too.
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Great Ideas Competition Public Art Finalist
I am a finalist in the Great Ideas Competition in Indianapolis. I have formed a collaboration, Silevy, with Artur Silva to design "Boatload of Knowledge", an installation inspired by the visionaries of New Harmony, Indiana.
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Lilly Endowment Creative Renewal Grant
I was awarded a Lilly Endowment Creative Renewal Grant in the Spring of 2007. This grant is administered by The Arts Council of Indianapolis. The grant period runs from July '07 through December '08. As part of my proposal, I travelled to Poland and Germany in October. Please see work supported by this grant on my website and at Big Car Gallery, www.bigcar.org
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Girls Brigade
NavtaSchulz Gallery
April 13 - May 26, 2007
Opening reception April 13, 6pm - 9pm
from the NavtaSchulz Gallery press release:
Girls Brigade figures are hooded archetypes, whose outfits are historical references to groups whose ideologies provoked oppression and violence. Levy’s Girls suggest parallels in modern socio/political life. She invented a children’s army with accompanying history and heraldic-like flags so that she could poke a little fun at how history is presented and also get a chance to guess about how some history is unknown or untold. She depicts her Girls as both covered and uncovered as a way to indicate their duality as victims and aggressors.
The Girls’ depersonalized condom/Klan/Casper outfits are intended by the artist to capture salient aspects of American culture, as well as Levy’s interest in how clothing provides both access and restriction to power.
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April 13 - May 26, 2007
Opening reception April 13, 6pm - 9pm
from the NavtaSchulz Gallery press release:
Girls Brigade figures are hooded archetypes, whose outfits are historical references to groups whose ideologies provoked oppression and violence. Levy’s Girls suggest parallels in modern socio/political life. She invented a children’s army with accompanying history and heraldic-like flags so that she could poke a little fun at how history is presented and also get a chance to guess about how some history is unknown or untold. She depicts her Girls as both covered and uncovered as a way to indicate their duality as victims and aggressors.
The Girls’ depersonalized condom/Klan/Casper outfits are intended by the artist to capture salient aspects of American culture, as well as Levy’s interest in how clothing provides both access and restriction to power.
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Raid
Midway Contemporary Art
April 28, 2007
Art auction and dance party to benefit the not-for-profit Midway Contemporary Art. Augusto Arbizo, Carter, Chris Deo, Matias Faldbakken, Michelle Grabner, Dan Graham, Adler Guerrier, Guyton/Walker, Jay Heikes, Adam Helms, Nate Hylden, Chris Larson, Judith G. Levy, Janet Lobberecht, Nate Lowman, Todd Norsten, Mia Pealman, Anthony Pearson, Adam Pendleton, Michael Queenland, David Rathman, Mika Rottenberg, Gedi Sibony, Josh Smith, Angela Strassheim, Cameron Wittig, Jordan Wolfson, Aaron Young.
Limited edition by
Santiago Cucullu
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April 28, 2007
Art auction and dance party to benefit the not-for-profit Midway Contemporary Art. Augusto Arbizo, Carter, Chris Deo, Matias Faldbakken, Michelle Grabner, Dan Graham, Adler Guerrier, Guyton/Walker, Jay Heikes, Adam Helms, Nate Hylden, Chris Larson, Judith G. Levy, Janet Lobberecht, Nate Lowman, Todd Norsten, Mia Pealman, Anthony Pearson, Adam Pendleton, Michael Queenland, David Rathman, Mika Rottenberg, Gedi Sibony, Josh Smith, Angela Strassheim, Cameron Wittig, Jordan Wolfson, Aaron Young.
Limited edition by
Santiago Cucullu
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