Judy Rushin
Painting
Judy Rushin joined Southeastern’s Visual Arts faculty in 2006 as Assistant Professor of Art in Painting. She is also a studio artist working in Hammond, Louisiana.
Rushin earned her MFA in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from Georgia State University and her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Georgia. She was an Adjunct Instructor of Drawing at Georgia State University in 2005. She was also co-founder of the Center for Creative Aspiration in Atlanta, GA, and worked with the organization from 2003 - 2005.
Rushin’s work has been included in many recent exhibitions, including New American Paintings, no. 64, the Baum Biennial Competitive Exhibit, in Conway, AR, Mapping, at the Arts and Literature Laboratory in New Haven, CT and Art in Freedom Park in Atlanta, GA. She has also had solo exhibitions at Eyedrum Gallery, Georgia State University and Ballroom Studios in Atlanta, GA, and has an exhibition scheduled for the spring of 2007 at Romo Gallery in Atlanta, GA.
Rushin’s paintings, drawings and installations employ invented landscapes, allusions to architecture and people’s stories of childhood to explore issues of memory and place.
Terry Richardson wrote in New American Paintings, “Many painters have found in architecture a “stage” or “space” with which they can experience the physicality of boundaries, of exits and entrances, of penetration and resistance, of its axial relation to the up and down. Such concerns are paramount in the work of Judy Rushin who seems preoccupied by motifs that allude to architectural structures – particularly those used to identify and inflect the movement of open planes and spaces.”
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