Judy Millar

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

Life

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

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For several years now, Judy Millar's work has been characterized by an intensive examination of the legacy of informal painting and Abstract Expressionism . Her partly large-format works are created in a permanent tension between a gestural order and the removal, smudging and ablation of color. Judy Millar is concerned with the ambivalences that 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 prizes and awards.

  • 1994 - Moët & Chandon Scholarship, Avize, France.
  • 2002 - Wallace Arts Trust Award, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • 2006 - First recipient of the McCahon House Residency Program, Auckland, New Zealand

Exhibitions

Judy Millar has had a variety of group and solo exhibitions in Europe and New Zealand. Your work met with a positive response. Angelika Affentrager-Krichrath described her work in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as "energetic and overwhelming", Andrea Hilgenstock called her work "spectacular". Information on Judy Millar's work can be found in recent publications on New Zealand art (see Literature).

Judy Millar and the artist Francis Upritchard represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 and showed the installation Giraffe-Bottle-Gun . She works with Leonhard Emmerling, Curator / Director of St. Paul St, AUT, Auckland. Judy Millar is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin, and Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich.

literature

  • Brian Butler (Ed.): Speculation. Auckland, Zurich: JRP / Ringer, 2007, pp. 62–67, p. 20.
  • Leonhard Emmerling (Ed.): IS / NZ (Ingólfur Arnarsson, Stephen Bambury, Tumi Magnússon, Judy Millar). With an interview by Susanne Kaeppele, Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-936636-47-5 .
  • Lopdell House Gallery (Ed.): Keeping You You Keeping Me Me. Auckland 2007, ISBN 0-9582284-3-4 .
  • CAP Art Limited, Dublin, Ireland (Ed.): CAP Collection. Dublin 2005, ISBN 2-88100-052-5 , pp. 184-187, 347

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description on palazzo.ch. Retrieved August 12, 2008 .
  2. ↑ http://www.wallaceartstrust.org.nz/?s1=wallace%20art%20awards
  3. ^ Judy Millar . McCahon House Trust , accessed June 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 14, 2005
  5. ^ Andrea Hilgenstock: "Every artist abstracts". In: welt.de . August 3, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ NZ at Venice 2009 - Judy Millar. In: nzatvenice.com. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Millar, Judy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1957