Judy Youngblood

Judy Youngblood (born 1948 in El Paso, Texas) is an American artist. Youngblood is known for her paintings based on weather phenomena, and also for her mixed media art including paintings, drawings, etchings, and relief prints. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was associated with the Atelier 17 in Paris. Youngblood taught both printmaking and book arts at the University of North Texas in Denton.Youngblood was a MacDowell Fellow in 1982 and again in 1985,and her work has been included in over three hundred invitational and juried group exhibits. Youngblood has had two solo shows at William Campbell Contemporary Art in Fort Worth including "Changing Weather" in 2014 and "Unsettled Conditions" in 2019.Also in 2019, the Forum Gallery at Brookhaven College (Dallas) hosted a retrospective of her work: Judy Youngblood: The Effects of Time and Weather. Quotes "To believe in yourself and know who you are when others don't believe in you is the greatest accomplishment; to never give up, to never quit, to have faith and stand your ground. Never change who you are. Love yourself because you have already made it and you are... Somebody." My work explores the passing of time and the tension between the human longing for reassuring repetition and — at the same time — change. I am particularly interested in our human ability to see what we expect to see, to misinterpret, to see a partial picture as the whole, to disregard incremental change, or to completely overlook the significant. My current artwork uses the lines and patterns from daily weather maps and images of weather — rain, snow, clouds, hail — as visual metaphors for these ideas. It explores the constancy, variation, and violence hidden within the familiar, reassuring seasonal cycle. I also use images of oceans — stormy, placid, or dramatic — as visual reflections of human moods and emotions. Like a human life, my artwork is multi-layered, complex, and develops over time. Color, texture, humor, and the physical joy of applying paint and cutting relief prints are important in the creation of my work. In the process of creating a piece, I begin working on an idea with a loosely drawn skeleton. I add layers of paint and drawing, building up layers of meanings and emphasis to create a finished piece that is dense with meaning. My installations, which are constructed with relief-printed images on paper applied to walls, floors, and ceilings, surround the viewers with visual representations of change, movement, and repetition. They directly address change and the passage of time by surrounding the viewer with moving storms, slow drips, changing clouds, and moving hail, snow, wind, and rain. External link Category: living people Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Painters from the United States Category:Women artists Category:1948 births