
Spotlight Artist
Judy Rushin
South
Artist Statement
My work addresses the problem of building with paintings. With
modular construction as the central quotation, I use panels and
pigment as “prefab” systems that create new spatial relationships
within existing architectures.
I am deeply committed to the following ideas and address them
in my practice:
1. Repetitive work, such as drilling, pouring, sanding, and
measuring, is the labor of industry, and art making is an
industrious job.
2. It is possible that repetitive honing by hand may imbue a work
with more humanity than a large painterly gesture.
3. You can build something big from small parts (or cover large
distances by taking small steps).
4. Color is delightful and beautiful.
5. Connecting walls with zip ties and hobby brackets is not stable
. . . but not unstable either, because in a gallery the work has its
own force field.
6. I am committed to the idea of mutual generosity on the part of
the artist and viewer.
7. Just as language inelegantly morphs and adapts when
necessary, so does art, and my work is happily and awkwardly
adrift.
Artist's Additional works
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections


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