Artwork of Judith Reidy
Find and enjoy Judith Reidy’s
oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor paintings
plus her graphite and pen & ink drawings!
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Judith Wins Best of Show
Judith Wins Best of Show
Darkness!
The themed title is Darkness. How could one possibly forget this as the exhibition opened in October in the month of dying Autumn, concluding with Halloween. To add to the excitement, I won best of show with the Painting Waiting Alone. Without being openly ghoulish enjoy the beauty of the ragged edges of fall. See what I wanted to submit but was limited to three pieces. Check out the entered pieces.
We were in Morocco, a place where women often remain covered. My daughter and I were traveling home one evening. Across the tracks, we saw the silhouette of a woman with luggage, sitting alone in the dark. Why was she alone? Was she leaving or returning? The shadows cloaked her in mystery, highlighting the uncertainty and vulnerability women often endure in this region.
Waiting Alone won “Best of Show” at the Rogues Show Darkness in October 2024 in the Attic at the David Barnett Gallery.
Theses were the comments of jurist, Evelyn Terry.
” First handled well as a realistic painting in blue tones, Waiting Alone’s figure to ground relationship creates an easily believable scene but a sad scene. A forlorn well-clothed person exist in the darker side of a brightly lit exit of a building, possibly forced to leave and go to what …somewhere?”
Framed Size: 32″h X 42″ w
Media: Acrylic
Judith Wins Best of Show
Yes, I was excited. But if it wasn’t for some great friends it wouldn’t be possible! Here goes the story.
“If it weren’t for Tom Piedt who kicked someone in her pants asking her what she was going to do with that Empty Chair series of paintings!
Well, she entered a show at the Anderson Arts Center in Kenosha and was awarded a three month exhibition over the summer in 2024!!! Isn’t that cool! She was in tears. If it wasn’t for another friend, Cherie Raffel, who urged her to enter the show and come out of her shell! So great to have encouraging friends!!!”
Scenes of Absence
This series came with much reflection during "covid." I know we may be tired of hearing about "Covid." We all deal with stress and loss in our own way. But for me it opened my eyes to so much loss. Loss not only through covid but through broken relationships, fear and resentment. It broke my heart and opened me to seek a better way. To reexamine my superficial spirituality and take a look at what it means to love your enemies and see myself in them and even see Christ Himself in them. These painting depict missing persons from desertion, death or dereliction of duty. We each have our missing persons and as a result feel incomplete again because we are meant to belong to one another.
Emblems of Rebirth
Once we have encountered loss and the sorrow and disappointment that so often accompanies it, we need healing and rebirth which requires us to dig deep and trust again. Fortunately with eyes seeing new light we can trust the pictures of hope created to guides us home. Renewed and refreshed we can lift our heads in confidence that it will all make sense in time and eternity. Look to the emblems of rebirth designed to remind us there is a way to renewal.
Future... Featured Work
I am always full of ideas and love to share my new adventures with you! I am never quite sure where my adventurous intuition will lead me…. so lets find out together!