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"Untitled"  11" x 14"  2001  By Judy S.



"Untitled"  11" x 14"  2001

By Judy S.


Judy possesses a distinct artistic sensibility which excludes experimenting with anything other than her choice of materials: markers, pencils, paper and occasionally watercolors for tinting or dipping her pencil into for color accents.  The pencil, for her, is an unproblematic extension of the psyche. Her hand/pencil duet is constantly moving while describing, defining and shading a surrealist coherence of sense and nonsense.  Sometimes she tires while working and will lay her head on one arm, but the right drawing arm continues to work. Occasionally she will continue to draw when her eyes are closed and even when her body is slowly sliding out of the chair toward the floor. We have seen her continue drawing when her head was below the plane of the table!

Her drawings, like those of the famous self-taught artist Bill Traylor, always seem predestined as if the artist is simply the vehicle for expressing some essential truth. She is grooving and the grooving is always complete and finished - it becomes terminated when she has to leave the studio.

Judy developed a post-surgical seizure disorder and it is presumed she developed anoxic brain injury from her seizures. She is forty-two years old. Her connection to art establishes her sole relationship to the world.



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