The New York Public Library

 

presents

 

An Artist Dialogue Series Event

 

Outside the Comfort Zone

Collaboration and Expansion

 

Mary Judge

 in conversation with

Kate Teale

 

Saturday December 6, 2014

2:30 p.m.

 

The Corner Room
1^st Floor

 

The New York Public Library

Mid-Manhattan Library

5^th Avenue at 40^th Street

New York, NY 10018

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

(directions)

 

 The Corner Room opens to public at 2:00 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.  

 

Join us for a discussion, between Mary Judge and Kate Teale, focusing around the fertile ground that the process of collaboration produces with cited examples within the visual arts in general and in the work of Mary Judge in particular. 

 

They converse about the creative process in the printmaking studio and how is differs from that of the painter working solo. The discussion points cover processes and techniques used to create the series for Mary Judge's Art Wall on Third exhibition, and how they connect and feed back in the main body of an artist’s work. Other collaborative experiences that the artist has had, is highlighted with examples from catalogues of past work. These include working in the ceramic factories of Deruta, Italy, poetry writing and handmade books and sculpture first created in a concrete factory in Samsoe, Denmark. Judge and Teale also talk about occasions in which an unusual “space” inspires a shift in approach or creative thinking with results that lie outside “the norm” of the artist’s work.  

 

Mary Judge lives and works in St Louis, Missouri and Brooklyn, New York. She first showed her work at The Drawing Center and has a long career with a focus on works on paper. She taught drawing for many years at Parsons School of Design and now focuses full time on her studio work. She received her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia and Rome, Italy and also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has been the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant, The Mid Atlantic Council for the Arts Grant and a Dieu Donne Workshop grant. Judge was Associate Professor of Studio Methods, at Parsons School of Design where she taught for many years. Her work is included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fogg Museum, The Corcoran Museum, The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as many private collections. She is currently Director of Schema Projects, a gallery which focuses on works on paper of all kinds, in all fields, in her Brooklyn storefront property.

 

Kate Teale  lives and works in New York City. Born in England, she received her B.A. at Oxford University, her Painting Diploma at City and Guilds of London Art School and her MFA at
C.U.N.Y.Hunter College. Kate’s first solo show in New York City was at Spring Gallery in SoHo in 1996, and her most recent at Studio10, Bushwick in 2013. Other recent exhibitions include: Monya Rowe Gallery, Chelsea NYC; Jim Kempner Gallery, Chelsea NYC; AIR Gallery NYC;  Keeping It Real at James W. & Lois I. Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. She has had solo shows at Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, NYC; Hampden Gallery, UMASS, Amherst and Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia. Her work can be seen at Pierogi Gallery flat files in Brooklyn. Kate teaches at Parsons School of Design, and has also taught at Yale University (Graduate drawing, School of Architecture), Pratt Institute and CUNY Hunter College. Kate received a Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2013, and was a 2008 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow in Painting.  Kate has written for Contemporary Art Magazine, UK. She is founder/director of Big & Small/Casual Gallery in Long Island City. 

 

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, Artist Dialogues Series provide an open forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.