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I'd like to introduce you to my new series of Sculpture:
A TRIBUTE TO STRONG PERSEVERANT BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN FIGHTING FOR INCLUSION
April 9th 2015 "In an historic move, two African-American ballet dancers performed the lead roles in the Washington Ballet's "Swan Lake" Thursday evening at the Kennedy Center.
It's the first time this has been done in a major ballet company and challenges the idea what principal roles in classical ballets should look like." Leon Harris at ABC's WJLA-TV
VIDEO: A TRIBUTE TO STRONG PERSEVERANT BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN FIGHTING FOR INCLUSION : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37xOnFjHWE&t=3s
JUDITH UNGER'S Interview
with THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS Washington DC (Barbara Canale, and Simona Camera, the Italian Committee) "Being part of the Italy Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts is really inspiring, not only because I firmly believe in the mission of spreading the knowledge of women artists all over the world, but also because I get the chance to meet amazing people like the artist Judith Unger. It has been a real pleasure interviewing her and discussing about women empowerment and gender equality in the arts." Barbara Canale
INTERVIEW with NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS: https://www.facebook.com/100001666522980/videos/370423773630840
I am invited to show
9 Sculpture & 5 Drawings
at
the Prestigious 2019 Venice, Italy Biennale.
6 months,
600,000 worldwide visitors.
In 2018 I was one of thirty sculptors WORLDWIDE
invited to exhibit .
The Venice Biennale is the
World's most prestigious contemporary art and architecture venue.
Established in 1895,it is the oldest contemporary Art Biennale.
In 1948 The Biennale held a major exhibition with the Impressionists, Chagall, Klee, Braque, Delvaux, Ensor, and Magritte, as well as a retrospective of Picasso's work.
Peggy Guggenheim was invited to exhibit her famous New York collection.
The New Museum and Yoko Ono are among the sponsors of my exhibit venue.
Picasso exhibited in 1948
"BREAKING FREE"
This is MYSTORY, HERSTORY, YOURSTORY.
My sculpture told my story long before I recognized it myself.
Years ago I sculpted a faceless woman, breaking free, defending herself with threatening claws. Then a crouching angel protecting herself under her wings.
I no longer need wings to protect me, to soar.
This is My journey from Oppression to Shining Strength.
I SHINE. A STRONG WOMAN. MY ART SHINES.
I give this gift to others "to give heart" to EN COURAGE.
"SHINE"
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so other people will not feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to SHINE. As we let our own light shine, we give others the permission to do the same."
excerpt Marianne Williamson
"A CHANGING NARRATIVE OF FEMALE EXISTENCE OVER TIME”
Leda” is my reclamation of the Greek Myth “Leda and the Swan”, the rape of Leda by Zeus.
Leda” is my reclamation of the Greek Myth “Leda and the Swan”, the
"A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast."
Excerpt “Leda and the Swan” W.B. Yeats
My rendering of this myth brings the legend into today’s context. It offers a changing narrative of female existence.
Unlike the story of the ancient Greek Myth of Zeus raping Leda, my Leda transforms herself into a powerful swan, who fights off her attacker and protects herself.
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Janson’s History of Art”, The Art History Classic since 1962, DID NOT INCLUDE ANY WOMEN ARTISTS UNTIL 1989.
"There is reason to fear that a younger generation of (female) artists lack knowledge of the challenges, the claims for place, and the revolution in attitudes that have actually secured their careers“
Agnes Gund, Art Collector.
US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said her male colleagues sometimes do not hear a woman’s voice. 2009 interview USA Today, she said the other justices who were then all men, sometimes ignored her arguments at their private conferences.
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My mother, a painter, encouraged me to draw at a young age. We’d ride the train
weekly to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
I memorized whole rooms of paintings! I remember looking up from my small
height overwhelmed in a room overflowing with Monet waterlilies. A whole new
world for a small child.
I fell in love with Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
Clay felt so right.
The fluid sensuality in my hands translating into my sculpture and drawings.
Both Venice and Vermont magnify the intensity of my work.
I return to my US studio in an explosion of creativity.
I NEED TO SCULPT AND DRAW
IT IS ELEMENTAL TO MY EXISTENCE
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T45v5-HKC8Q&feature=youtu.be
INTERVIEW with NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS: VIDEO: A TRIBUTE TO STRONG PERSEVERANT BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN FIGHTING FOR INCLUSION : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37xOnFjHWE&t=3s
INTERVIEW with NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS: https://www.facebook.com/100001666522980/videos/370423773630840
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