Judith Barbour Osborne
Primary Medium: Mixed media
Other media: Printmaking, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Tags : text-based, spiritual, consciousness, words, calligraphic
Judith Barbour Osborne
Neighborhood : New Haven: Downtown
Email: jboart (at) earthlink (dot) net
Website: http://www.jboart.com
Artist Statement
As an artist working with texts, I am interested in both verbal and non-verbal ways of knowing. I continually returning to the space where they meet. It is from this process that I gather inspiration from kinetic, sensory, emotional, psychological, intellectual and spiritual information. I make these aspects of non-visual reality visible, as if staining the wind. I therefore consider the time I spend in my studio to be a form of research into consciousness.
Since the 1990s my work has consisted of abstractly writing poetry and spiritual texts using small handmade brushes to mops and brooms and other non-traditional tools. Unfinished pieces from the last 20 years serve as the bases for my latest work. My intent in completing them at this time is to create a more mature aesthetic and spiritual expression from where I am now, which is why I call the series “Closer Alignments.”
Other media: Printmaking, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Tags : text-based, spiritual, consciousness, words, calligraphic
Judith Barbour Osborne
Neighborhood : New Haven: Downtown
Email: jboart (at) earthlink (dot) net
Website: http://www.jboart.com
Artist Statement
As an artist working with texts, I am interested in both verbal and non-verbal ways of knowing. I continually returning to the space where they meet. It is from this process that I gather inspiration from kinetic, sensory, emotional, psychological, intellectual and spiritual information. I make these aspects of non-visual reality visible, as if staining the wind. I therefore consider the time I spend in my studio to be a form of research into consciousness.
Since the 1990s my work has consisted of abstractly writing poetry and spiritual texts using small handmade brushes to mops and brooms and other non-traditional tools. Unfinished pieces from the last 20 years serve as the bases for my latest work. My intent in completing them at this time is to create a more mature aesthetic and spiritual expression from where I am now, which is why I call the series “Closer Alignments.”
Selected Works
|  earth, air, fire and water - 2011 - raku-fired ceramic - various, approx. 8x5x5" each  Mind-Book - 2011 - mixed media on paper - approx. 4 x 4" closed; 4 x 38" open  T-Book - 2011 - mixed media on paper - approx. 6 x 6" closed; 6 x 69" open  Commerce of Thought - Something and Everyday - 2011 - sumi ink - 8 x 8 x 4" each  Detail of "Newhall Quotation" - 2011 - collaboration with photographer William G. Nelson - 14 x 48"  Closer Alignments #1 - 2010 - mixed media and collage - 6 x 4"  exalted melancholy #2 - 2009 - monotype - 8 x 8"  Triangulating the Spiritual #1 (from Closer Alignments Series) - 2010 - mixed media on paper - 40 x 32"  Believe in the Light #16 - 2004 - Mixed media on paper - 19 x 25"  I am Series #1 - 2010 - monotype - 12 x 9"  I am Series #2 - 2010 - monotype - 9 x 12"  made of miles and apologies #1 - 2009 - monotype - 8 x 8"  nowheres #2 - 2009 - monotype - 8 x 8" |
Artist Bio
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - SOLO
Alexey vonSchlippe Gallery, UConn, Avery Point, Groton, CT - 2005, 2009
Chester Gallery, Chester, CT - 2006
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester - 2006
West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV - 2006
DeLong Gallery, Toronto, Canada - 2005
Gallery Siano, Philadelphia - 2004
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington - 2004
Artists' House Gallery, Philadelphia - 1998, 2001, 2002
Living Arts of Tulsa, OK - 2000
The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA - 2000
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Satellite Gallery - 1999-2000
Rourke Art Gallery and Museum, Moorhead, MN - 1970, 1999
Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia - 1999
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
CANADA - Calligrammes Gallery, Ottawa - 2004, 2005, 2006
CHINA - “Art of Ink in America,” Shaanxi Museum, Xi'an - 2003
FRANCE - “Art of Ink in America,” Tenri Cultural Institute, Paris - 2007
KOREA - “Art of Ink in America,” Hynudai Art Center, Ulsan - 2007
NEW YORK CITY -
“Art of Ink in America,” New York Hall of Science - 2005
“Art of Ink in America,” Tenri Cultural Institute - 2002
Atelier 14, (now White Box Gallery; incl. Esteban Vicente, Knox Martin, Philip Pavia,...) - 1997
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Club, National Arts Club - 1990
ALABAMA - “Art of Ink in America,” Mobile Museum of Art - 2004
DELAWARE - Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington - 2002
CALIFORNIA - “Art of Ink in America,” California State University, Dominguez Hills - 2010
“Art of Ink in America,” Irvine Fine Art Center - 2008
“Art of Ink in America,” California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - 2005
CONNECTICUT
“Gesture: Making the Mark,” Hygienic Art Galleries, New London - 2010
Gallery One, Old Saybrook, CT - 2005 - present
Essex Art Association - 2006, 2008, 2009
“Responding to Our World,” Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford - 2006
“Art of the Northeast,” Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan - 2001
“Writing Beyond Words,” Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford - 1999
FLORIDA - Palm Beach Community College Art Gallery, Eissey Campus - 2010
MINNESOTA - Rourke Art Gallery/Museum - Midwestern Annuals, Moorhead - 1987-1999
PENNSYLVANIA
“Expressionist Gesture,” Berman Museum, Collegeville - 2004
“Art of the State,” State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg - 1994, 2000, 2001
Art Association of Harrisburg - 1992
PHILADELPHIA, PA
“Non-Objective Painting and Sculpture,” Art in City Hall - 2002
Parallels Gallery, Philadelphia - 2002
“The Unseen Seen," Peng Gallery - 1998
"Concrete Poetry," Nexus Foundation for Today's Art - 1997
"Painted Words," Borowsky Gallery, Gershman JCC - 1997
WEST VIRGINIA - “Alphabets in the Arts,” Maureen Squires, curator, Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs - 2004
VIRGINIA - 1708 Gallery, Richmond - 1998
REPRESENTATION
Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, Birmingham, AL (for Day Recalls)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: DeLong Gallery (for the Toronto region)
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Scripps College, Claremont, California
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS, ETC.
Essex Art Association Award - 2008
Independence Foundation Fellowship - 2001
Fellowship Prize - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia - 1997
Best of Medium-Drawing - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - 1994
Best of Show - Abington Art Center, Abington, PA - 1990
ADDITIONAL ART RELATED ACTIVITIES (partial list)
Director, Gallery One, Old Saybrook, CT - 2007-present
Workshop Instructor
Writer, Art Matters, Philadelphia
Collaborations with Sophia Osborne, choreographer; Jena Osman, poet
EDUCATION
MFA--Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
BFA--Philadelphia College of Art (now UArts)