Judy Millar

Judy Millar ( born 1957 ) is a contemporary New Zealand painter who, Germany, lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and Berlin.

Life

Judy Millar earned a 1980 Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA) and 1983 a Master of Fine Arts (MFA ) at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She teaches at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.

Work

Judy Millar's work is characterized for several years by the intense engagement with the legacy of informal painting and Abstract Expressionism. Your partly large-scale works are created in a permanent tension between gestural acting job and the removal, smudging and removal of color. Judy Millar that is: in the ambivalences that today go hand in hand with the concept of gestural painting and its claim to authenticity and subjective integrity.

Prizes and awards

Judy Millar is the recipient of various awards and honors.

Exhibitions

Judy Millar had a variety of group and solo exhibitions in Europe and New Zealand. Her work came to this positive response. Angelika monkeys Trager Krichrath designated in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung her works as " energetic and overwhelming," Andrea Hilgenstock calls her work "spectacular ". Information about Judy Millar's work can be found in recent publications on art in New Zealand (see literature).

News

Judy Millar will represent together with the artist Francis Upritchard in 2009 New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennale. She works with Leonhard Emmerling, curator / director of St. Paul St, AUT, Auckland, together. Judy Millar is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin, and Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich.