Tom Judd: Evidence of a Collected Past
Through Jan. 10, 2010, Allen Sheppard Gallery at Globe Dye Works, 4500 Worth St., 212-989-9919, allensheppardgallery.com.
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To Tom Judd, nothing is more fascinating than someone else's life. Piecing together fragments of peoples' pasts through found objects like old newspaper clippings, postcards and faded photographs (often family and vacation shots), Judd creates mixed-media pieces ranging from collaged oil paintings, to a man's head made out of plywood (his patchwork-heavy Air Rodesia is pictured). This retrospective exhibit features a range of Judd's works from the past 20 years, as well as some of the scraps of fabric, photos, clippings and writings he's used as inspiration. Collecting scrapbooks from flea markets, handwritten recipes from eBay and even dead birds he finds on the ground, Judd improvises as he works, drawing ideas from anything and everything. It could be the ornately patterned ceiling of a church he visited in Mexico; it could be an old shack he found by the river. "My work is remnants of things," he says. "The chance association of imagery ending up together creates a kind of poetry."
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