Judy Robinson-Cox

Judy Robinson-Cox is a Cape Ann, Massachusetts artist known for playful landscapes that she constructs from everyday objects and food and populates with tiny figures. Working with scale and space, she creates these miniature worlds in front of the camera and photographs them without digital manipulation. Judy's photographs of urban landscapes memorialize an iconic building or neighborhood. She sometimes uses the complex process of digitally montaging a detail image with the overall view to capture the essence of a place. She further explores constructed landscapes and digital montage in her three-dimensional photo dioramas and collaged mixed media pieces. Judy also uses the camera to create abstract images with water and urban vignettes as the primary subject matter.

Judy began her love of photography in 1966 while enrolled at the New York University's School of Fine Arts. Influenced primarily by Aaron Siskand, she roamed the allies and back streets of New York in search of abstract compositions. Later while enrolled in the University of Connecticut's Fine Arts department, she began experimenting in the darkroom with photographic silk screen and montaging large format 8x10 film positives with layers of color. These early experiments influence her work today.

Judy currently exhibits her work in galleries and art associations in Boston and the North Shore.

Artist's Statement

Lilliputian Landscapes: This series of photographs consists of playful landscapes that I construct from food or everyday objects and populate with tiny figures. Working with scale and space, I create these miniature worlds in front of the camera without digital manipulation

Endangered Spaces: These photographs tell a story about a place that is in danger of disappearing. Some are “photographic montages” that combine two views of the same location into one image, giving greater depth to the perception of place. Others combine photography with collage or construction in an attempt to more fully communicate the sense of space.

Waterlines: The undulating motion of water and light can be both soothing and exhilerating. My goal with these photos is to capture that dichotomy as I see and feel it on Cape Ann by focusing solely on the area where the a boat touches the sea.

The photographs are printed in limited editions with archival pigment ink on ultra premium quality archival paper.

Awards

2011, Cambridge Art Association RED, Leslie Saul & Associates, Inc - Honorable Mention Prize (juror Howard Yezerski)
2011, Newburyport Art Association Juried Regional Show, Award of Excellence in Photography (juror Christine McCarthy, Executive Director, Provincetown Art Association and Museum)
2011, Rockport Art Association Spring Photography Show, Gerald R. O’Brien Memorial Award
2010, Rockport Art Association, Second Summer Group Photo Show, John Harper Memorial Award
2010, Rockport Art Association, Spring Group Photo Show, Gerald R. O’Brien Memorial Award for Excellence in Photography
2010, Magnolia Library Show, First Place, Mixed Media
2010, Newburyport Art Association, Member’s Juried Show, H. Patterson Hale, Jr. Charitable Foundation Award for Digital Photography
2010, Rockport Art Association, Spring Exhibit, Photographic Resource Award for Excellence in Photography
2009, Rockport Art Association, 2nd Summer Show, Photographic Resource Award for Excellence in Photography
2009, Rockport Art Association, 2nd Summer Show Honorable Mention
2009, Magnolia Library Show, People's Choice: Mixed Media
2008, LynnArts, Works on Paper, Honorable Mention
2008, Newburyport Art Association, Juried Fall Show Honorable Mention
2008, Magnolia Library Show, First Prize, photography
2008, Rockport Art Association, Spring Photography Exhibition, June and Gardner Marchant Memorial Award
2007, Newburyport Art Association, Juried Fall Show Honorable Mention
2007, LynnArts, Works on Paper Honorable Mention
2007, Magnolia Library Show, Honorable Mention, photography
2007 Rockport Art Association, First Summer Show, Excellence in Photography
2007, Brush Gallery, Artist of the Month for June
2007, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Weather, 2007; Honorable Mention (juror, Karen Quinn, MFA, Boston)
2006, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Environments, Honorable Mention (juror, Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum of Art)
2006, Rockport Art Association, Spring Photography Show, Excellence in Digital Photography
2005, Newburyport Art Association Juried Winter Show Award of Excellence for Digital Photography
2005, Rockport Art Association, Photographic Resource Enter Award for Excellence in Photography

Small Group and Solo Shows

2010, Celebration Hall, Beverly Farms, MA, two person exhibit with Tom Robinson-Cox
2010, ArtSites Gallery, Riverhead NY, Other Worlds, small group exhibit
2010, Rockport Art Association, Endangered Spaces solo exhibit
2009, Cambridge Art Association, Seeing is Forgetting small group show at University Place Gallery
2009, Topsfield Library, Lilliputian Landscapes, solo exhibit
2009, Addison Gilbert Hospital, solo exhibit
2008, Sawyer Free Library, solo exhibit
2006, Rockport Art Association, Landscape³three-person show
2006, Newburyport Art Association, Double Take, Two-person show (with Tom Robinson-Cox)
2005, The Bookstore, Gloucester, solo show, The Paint Factory

Selected Juried Group Shows

Brush Gallery, Massachusetts Artists 2007

Massachusetts Artists 2007 (juror, Raphaela Platow, curator, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)
Selected as Artist of the Month for June 2007

Cambridge Art Association (membership by juried selection)

Darkness/Light, 2010 (Juror: Ricardo Barreto, Director of UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art)
Member's Prize, 2009 (juror Joseph D. Ketner II, Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Emerson College, Boston)
Stratum, 2009 (juror Camilo Alvarez, Owner/Director/Curator/Preparator, Samson Projects, Boston)
Northeast Prize, 2009 (juror William Stover, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Blue, 2008 (juror Jen Mergel, Assistant Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Northeast Prize, 2008 (juror Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Interiors/Exteriors, 2008 (juror James Hull, artist and curator)
Cool, 2007 (juror Sara Miller, curator, The Gund Collection)
Visions, 2007 (juror Pamela Clark Cochrane, owner/director, Clark Gallery, Lincoln)
Blue, 2006-2007 (juror Carole Anne Meehan, Project Director, ICA)
National Prize, 2006 (juror, Cheryl Brutvan, curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Members Prize, 2005, 2006 (juror Hiram Butler, co-director Devon Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX)

Danforth Museum of Art

Members Juried Show, 2006 (jurors, Nina Nielsen, Director, Nielsen Gallery; John Stomberg, Associate Director, Williams College Museum of Art; Leslie Brown, Curator, Photographic Resource Center, BU)

LynnArts Center

Works on Paper, 2008, 2007, 2006

Marblehead Arts Association

Juried Photography Show, 2007

Newburyport Art Association

Regional Juried Show, 2010 (juror William Stover, former Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Regional Juried Show, 2009 (juror John R. Stomberg, Chief Curator of the Williams College Museum of Art)
Juried Members Shows, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007. 2006, 2005
Regional Juried Show, 2006 (juror, Laura Donaldson, Mills Gallery Director, Boston Center for the Arts)
Juried Summer Photography Show, 2005 (juror, Leslie Brown, curator, PRC Boston)

Rockport Art Association (membership by juried selection)

Summer I, II, III, IV 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

Rocky Neck Art Colony

The Best of Rocky Neck, 2010 Member's Exibition
Weather, 2007; (juror, Karen Quinn, MFA, Boston)
Environments, 2006; (juror, Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum of Art)
The Paint Factory, 2005 (jurors: Susan Erony, Ruth Mordecai, Trudy Allen)
The Human Form, 2005 (juror, Alexandra Novina, curatorial fellow, DeCordova Museum)

The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

79th International Competition, 2005 (juror, Judy Hecker, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NYC)

Gallery Representation

Square Circle Gallery, Rockport, MA
Rockport Art Association Showroom, Rockport, MA
Chameleon, Newburyport, MA
Rocky Neck Gallery, Gloucester, MA

Collections

Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, MA
Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds
Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect, Microsoft)

Memberships & Associations

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA
Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
The Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA
seARTS, Gloucester, MA
SalemArts, Salem, MA
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Professional Experience

Currently own and operate a Web and Graphic Design firm.
Previously was Marketing Director and Graphic Designer in the software industry and partner of craft business in Woodstock, NY.

Education

BFA University of Connecticut (cum laude Painting, Photography)
Fine Arts: New York University
Graphic Design: Philadelphia College of Art

Contact Info

978-283-3598

5 Haskell Court, Gloucester, MA 01930